A guide for actors, and everyone else, to getting the best for less and surviving, thriving and living the good life in the Big Apple. Here is the ultimate guidebook for the hordes of aspiring young performers who arrive in the Big City determined to climb the ladder to stardom. But the purpose of Craig Wroe, an actor himself, is not to provide instruction on how to refine acting, singing or dancing talents or how to land a job in the chorus of The Producers. Plenty of other books do that. His aim is far broader-to help you survive in the crowded, frantic, expensive maelstrom that is New York. From finding a decent, reasonably inexpensive place to live to finding competent, reasonably inexpensive dental care, from getting computer training to organize your day-to-day existence to joining a gym to harden your body, from eating well to dressing better-all on a tight budget-there is virtually no aspect of life in New York that is not covered in this book. And it not only names names; it gives addresses and phone numbers as well. And keep in mind that newly-arrived lawyers, accountants, models, writers-you name them-need these things too. This list includes just a few of the services, products and places, in the categories indicated, that you'll find in "An Actor prepares...To Live in New York City": Getting settled, finding a home, banking and credit cards, transportation, internet service providers, staying healthy, medical and dental care, pharmacies, working out, health insurance, personal and professional resources, acting and related unions, lawyers, tax preparation, interim work and career transition, all work and no play, take a hike, museums, art galleries, listening to music, shopping, provisions, beverages, brews and other spirits, clothing, furniture, housewares, sample sales, flea markets, thrift markets, haggling. Paperback.