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WORKS: ANATOMY OF A CITY
Written by Ascher, Kate
A fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city "It's a rare person who won't find something of interest in The Works, whether it's an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or the view of what's down a manhole." --New York Post
ISLAND AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD: THE EPIC STORY OF DUTCH MANHATTAN AND THE FORGOTTEN COLONY THAT SHAPED AMERICA
Written by Shorto, Russell
In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. "Astonishing . . .
GOTHAM: A HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY TO 1898 (REVISED)
Written by Wallace, Mike
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes.
HISTORIC MAPS AND VIEWS OF NEW YORK
Written by Virga, Vincent
A first-of-its-kind collection of twenty-four historic maps and views of New York City, specially bound so they can be removed easily and framed in standard-size frames. Historic Maps and Views of New York is a unique and fascinating collection of twenty-four New York maps and views dating from the 1600s through the present.
NEW YORK 2000: ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM FROM THE BICENTENNIAL TO THE MILLENNIUM
Written by Tilove, Jacob
Touted by Publisher's Weekly as an unprecedented record, the new book in the New York series, New York 2000, is indeed an exceptional survey of this great city's architectural heritage. As the world's financial and cultural capital, New York demands the best in architectural design and balances the constant pressure to build with the need to preserve its historic fabric.
HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
Written by Riis, Jacob A
Jacob Riis's illustrated tour of New York's slums had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that changed the face of the city. In 1890, when the book was published, the Lower East Side was a landscape of teeming streets and filthy tenements crowded with immigrants living in dreadful conditions.
MURDER OF THE CENTURY: THE GILDED AGE CRIME THAT SCANDALIZED A CITY AND SPARKED THE TABLOID WARS
Written by Collins, Paul
The "enormously entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that "artfully re-create[s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off" (The New York Times) AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME - "Fascinating . . .
ALL THE BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK OE
Written by Hancock, James Gulliver
A charmingly illustrated journey through New York City, neighborhood by neighborhood. All the Buildings in New York is a love letter to New York City, told through James Gulliver Hancock's unique and charming drawings of the city's diverse architectural styles and cityscape.
HELLO NEW YORK
Written by Rothman, Julia
Anyone who hearts New York will love this illustrated homage to the city.
UP IN THE OLD HOTEL
Written by Mitchell, Joseph
Up in the Old Hotel had its beginnings in the nineteen-thirties, in the hopelessness of the early days of the Great Depression, when Joseph Mitchell, at that time a young newspaper reporter in New York City, gradually became aware that the people be respected the most and got the most pleasure out of interviewing were really pretty strange.
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