Ny History
LUST ON TRIAL: CENSORSHIP AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN OBSCENITY IN THE AGE OF ANTHONY COMSTOCK
Written by Werbel, Amy
Anthony Comstock was America's first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a crusade against lasciviousness, salaciousness, and obscenity that resulted in the confiscation and incineration of more than three million pictures, postcards, and books he judged to be obscene.
SMARTER NEW YORK CITY: HOW CITY AGENCIES INNOVATE
Innovation is often presented as being in the exclusive domain of the private sector. Yet despite widespread perceptions of public-sector inefficiency, government agencies have much to teach us about how technological and social advances occur.
UNBOXING NEW YORK
Written by New York, Oda
Unboxing New York is a collaborative testimony to the realities architecture faces in the evolving landscape of New York City.
VANISHING NEW YORK: HOW A GREAT CITY LOST ITS SOUL
Written by Moss, Jeremiah
"Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and Cheap Pierogi" --Vanity FairAn unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York.
FRENCH CONNECTION: A TRUE ACCOUNT OF COPS, NARCOTICS, AND INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY
Written by Moore, Robin
With a new introduction by the author. The true, absorbing and sometimes frightening documentary of the world's most successful narcotics investigation, The French Connection is one of the most fascinating crime accounts of our time.
BAG OF BONES: THE SENSATIONAL GRAVE ROBBERY OF THE MERCHANT PRINCE OF MANHATTAN
Written by Conway, J North
Completing J. North Conway's widely acclaimed trilogy of Gilded Age New York City Crime--following King of Heists and The Big Policeman--Bag of Bones combines the era's affluence, decadence, and corruption with a gruesome deed fit for the tabloids of today. In 1878, the body of multi-millionaire A. T. Stewart was stolen from St. Mark's Churchyard.
GANGLAND NEW YORK: THE PLACES AND FACES OF MOB HISTORY
Written by DeStefano, Anthony M
Get a taste of New York's underworld by seeing where mobsters lived, worked, ate, played, and died. From the Bowery Boys and the Five Points Gang through the rise of the Jewish "Kosher Nostra" and the ascendance of the Italian Mafia, mobsters have played a major role in the city's history, lurking just around the corner or inside that nondescript building.
NEW YORK RISING: A HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY REAL ESTATE
Written by Ascher, Kate
New York Rising is an illustrated history of real estate development in Manhattan, a story of speculation and innovation - of the big ideas, big personalities, and big risks that collectively shaped a city like no other.
WHAT GOES UP: THE RIGHT AND WRONGS TO THE CITY
Written by Sorkin, Michael
A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary city
SAVING CENTRAL PARK: A HISTORY AND A MEMOIR
Written by Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow
The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers opens with a quick survey of her early life--a middle-class upbringing in Texas; college at Wellesley, marriage, a mast
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