Neil E. Schlecht is a writer and photographer who travels frequently along the Hudson between an old farmhouse in northwestern Connecticut and New York City. He is the author of a dozen travel guides including
Spain For Dummies and Frommer s guides to Texas, Cuba, and Peru as well as art catalogue essays and articles on art and culture.
Rich Beattie is a freelance writer who lives in New York City. Formerly the Managing Editor of Travel Holiday Magazine and Executive Editor of the adventure–travel site GORP.com, he now writes for Travel & Leisure, the New York Times, Four Seasons Hotel Magazine, Boating Magazine, and Modern Bride, among others.
Brian Silverman, author of Frommer s New York City, Frommer s New York City from $90 a Day, and Portable New York City, has written about travel, food, sports, and music for publications such as Saveur, Caribbean Travel & Life, Islands, American Way, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. He is the author of several books including Going, Going, Gone: The History, Lore, and Mystique of the Home Run (HarperCollins), and co–editor of The Twentieth Century Treasury of Sports (Viking Books). Brian lives in New York, New York, with his wife and son.