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COUNTER INSTITUTION: ACTIVIST ESTATES OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE

Written by Bagchee, Nandini
In the midst of current debates about the accessibility of public spaces, resurfacing as a result of highly visible demonstrations and occupations, this book illuminates an overlooked domain of civic participation: the office, workshop, or building where activist groups meet to organize and plan acts of political dissent and collective participation.
July 10, 2018 | Paperback | Fordham University Press | 264 Pages |
$29.95
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HOW THE OTHER HALF LOOKS: THE LOWER EAST SIDE AND THE AFTERLIVES OF IMAGES

Written by Blair, Sara
How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing America New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual technologies.
June 5, 2018 | Hardcover | Princeton University Press | 304 Pages |
$29.95
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BRIDGE: HOW THE ROEBLINGS CONNECTED BROOKLYN TO NEW YORK

Written by Tomasi, Peter J
More than 130 years after its completion, the Brooklyn Bridge remains one of the most extraordinary landmarks and symbols of Brooklyn and New York City--and the story behind this architectural marvel is just as extraordinary.
April 17, 2018 | Hardcover | Harry N. Abrams | 208 Pages |
$24.99
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ACTIVIST NEW YORK: A HISTORY OF PEOPLE, PROTEST, AND POLITICS

Written by Jaffe, Steven H
Follows centuries of New York activism to reveal the city as a globally influential machine for social change
May 1, 2018 | Hardcover | New York University Press | 304 Pages |
$40.00
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SUGAR, CIGARS, AND REVOLUTION: THE MAKING OF CUBAN NEW YORK

Written by Pérez, Lisandro
Winner, 2020 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York history Honorable Mention, 2019 CASA Literary Prize for Studies on Latinos in the United States, given by La Casa de las Américas The dramatic story of the origins of the Cuban community in nineteenth-century New York.
July 10, 2018 | Hardcover | New York University Press | 400 Pages |
$35.00
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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.
April 17, 2018 | Hardcover | Columbia University Press | 408 Pages |
$35.00
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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.
August 28, 2018 | Paperback | Columbia University Press | 448 Pages |
$30.00
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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.
October 22, 2018 | Hardcover | Actar | 314 Pages |
$39.95
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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.
July 24, 2018 | Paperback | Dey Street Books | 480 Pages |
$19.99
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FRENCH CONNECTION: A TRUE ACCOUNT OF COPS, NARCOTICS, AND INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY

Written by Moore, Robin
The gripping account of an extraordinary international narcotics case, as it unfolds on the streets of New York City.
September 1, 2003 | Paperback | Lyons Press | 309 Pages |
$14.95

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