New York
ICONIC NEW YORK JEWISH FOOD: A HISTORY AND GUIDE WITH RECIPES
Written by Hersh, June
Take a culinary journey through the foods, restaurants and businesses that define the cuisine of New York City and the Jewish immigrant experience...
JEWISH NEW YORK: A HISTORY AND GUIDE TO NEIGHBORHOODS, SYNAGOGUES, AND EATERIES
Written by Kaplan, Paul
Use this as your roadmap to Jewish immigration in New York!
GARDENS OF STONE: THE CEMETERIES OF NEW YORK CITY FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT
Written by Mosca, Alexandra Kathryn
They are found in tiny parcels of land squeezed among Manhattan buildings and in large rolling tracts of land in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. New York City's cemeteries carry on the ancient tradition of memorializing the dead with monuments, from plain gray markers to imposing crypts.
GUIDE TO GANGSTERS, MURDERERS AND WEIRDOS OF NEW YORK CITY'S LOWER EAST SIDE
Written by Ferrara, Eric
New York's Lower East Side is the birthplace of everything from organized crime to anarchist movements. In the nineteenth century, an influx of struggling immigrants seeking opportunity met the harsh realities of industrialization. Poverty and squalor fueled a vicious battle for power and political clout.
NEW YORK'S ORIGINAL PENN STATION: THE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF AN AMERICAN LANDMARK
Written by Kaplan, Paul M
In early twentieth-century New York, few could have imagined a train terminal as grandiose as Pennsylvania Station.
HISTORY LOVER'S GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY
Written by Fortier, Alison
New York is a city of superlatives. It has the largest population, greatest wealth, broadest diversity and most elegant museums in the nation. With that comes an amazing history.
NEW YORK CITY JAZZ
Written by Brinkofski, Elizabeth Dodd
New York City Jazz explores many of the haunts and hideaways that have played host to iconic jazz musicians and singers like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, and Lester Young. Considered the jazz capital of the world, New York City is known for its flashy venues.
EXPLORING NEW YORK'S SOHO
Written by Winters, Eleanor
SoHo, short for South of Houston, is one of New York's trendiest neighborhoods. Innovative restaurants and fashion-forward shops line Broome and Spring Streets, and artists reside above in modern lofts. But it is also part of the SoHo Cast-Iron Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.
CHINATOWNS OF NEW YORK CITY
Written by Tan, Wendy Wan-Yin
For a span of more than a century, New York's Chinese communities have grown uninterruptedly from three streets in lower Manhattan to five Chinatowns, over 100 street blocks, across the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. No other Chinese communities outside Asia come close to this magnitude.
NEW YORK CITY GANGLAND
Written by Nash, Arthur
Throughout the United States, there is no single major metropolitan area more closely connected to organized crime than New York City.
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