New York's Unique and Unexpected Places (New York Bound Books) by Stonehill, Judith(October 6, 2009) Hardcover

by Ethan Hawke

A guide to exploring the city's uncommon and less familiar sites offers fifty memorable destinations, including a Dutch farmhouse on Broadway, a chapel designed by Louise Nevelson, and the historic home of Louis Armstrong.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, New York

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, author, and film director. He made his film debut in Explorers (1985), before making a breakthrough performance in Dead Poets Society (1989). Hawke starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater's Before trilogy from 1995 to 2013. Hawke received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Training Day (2001) and Boyhood (2014) and two for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). Other notable roles include in Reality Bites (1994), Gattaca (1997), Great Expectations (1998), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Maggie's Plan (2015), First Reformed (2017), The Black Phone (2021), and The Northman (2022).
Hawke directed the narrative films Chelsea Walls (2001), The Hottest State (2006), and Blaze (2018) as well as the documentary Seymour: An Introduction (2014). He created, co-wrote and starred as John Brown in the Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird (2018), and directed the HBO Max documentary series The Last Movie Stars (2022). He starred in the Marvel television miniseries Moon Knight (2022) as Arthur Harrow.
In addition to his film work, Hawke has appeared in many theater productions. He made his Broadway debut in 1992 in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2007 for his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. In 2010, Hawke directed Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play. In 2018, he starred in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Sam Shepard's play True West.
He has received numerous nominations including a total of four Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.

Reviews

[Elizabeth Simons · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well designed and illustrated. So many illustrated books today are too busy for my taste. This book had a clean design with clear and attractive illustrations. Gave me a new list of places to visit in nyc this summer.

[Mary Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book to flip through-not really a travel guide but interesting especially for people who know the city very well.

[Danielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting quick read, great for ideas to add to a visit. But book published approx 15 yrs ago. Two of the places mentioned have closed.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I flipped through this book and read about several interesting places that I'd like to visit sometime.