New York
NEW YORK OFFBEAT WALKS
Written by Millar, Stephen
New York Offbeat Walks is a pocket-size guide containing 13 walks covering Manhattan. It is not a guide to the mainstream, but the quirkier side of Manhattan, for jaded residents who want to rediscover their city and explore areas they often overlook.
TRIA GIOVAN: LOISAIDA: NEW YORK STREET WORK 1984-1990
An evocative chronicle of the Lower East Side's halcyon days, from Giovan's archives
NEW YORK CITY LIKE A LOCAL: BY THE PEOPLE WHO CALL IT HOME
Written by Ulzen, Kweku
Keen to explore a different side of New York City? Like a Local is the book for you. This isn't your ordinary travel guide. You won't find the Met or the Statue of Liberty in these pages, because that's not where New Yorker's hang out.
NYC STREET POETS & VISIONARIES
A secret history of New York as told through classified ads and advertising posters salvaged from the city's streets
KIBBITZ AND NOSH: WHEN WE ALL MET AT DUBROW'S CAFETERIA
Written by Halperin, Marcia Bricker
On a winter's day in the mid-1970s the photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin sought warm refuge and, camera in hand, passed through the revolving doors of Dubrow's Cafeteria on Kings Highway. There, between the magical mirrored walls and steaming coffee urns, she found herself as if on a theater set, looking out at a tableau of memorable Brooklyn faces.
RAVING
Written by Wark, McKenzie
What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York's thriving underground queer and trans rave scene. Techno, first and always a Black music, invites fresh sonic and temporal possibilities for this era of diminishing futures.
GOD IN GOTHAM: THE MIRACLE OF RELIGION IN MODERN MANHATTAN
Written by Butler, Jon
"Are you there, God? It's me, Manhattan...Butler...argues that far from being a Sodom on the Hudson, New York was a center of religious dynamism throughout the 20th century."--Wall Street Journal "What a pleasure it is to take a tour of Manhattan's sacred past led by one of the nation's preeminent religious historians."
ITALIAN SQUAD: THE TRUE STORY OF THE IMMIGRANT COPS WHO FOUGHT THE RISE OF THE MAFIA
Written by Moses, Paul
The unknown inside story of the NYPD's Italian-born detectives who fought both powerful gangsters and the deeply ingrained prejudice against their own beloved immigrant community The story begins in Sicily, on Friday, March 12, 1909, at 8:45 p.m. Three gunshots thundered in the night, and then a fourth.
FORGOTTEN BOROUGH: STATEN ISLAND AND THE SUBWAY
Written by Gold, Kenneth M
What sets Staten Island apart from the rest of New York City? The island's identity has in part been defined in opposition to the city, its physical and cultural differences, and the perception of neglect by city government. It has long been whiter, wealthier, less populated, and more politically conservative.
AMBUSH AT CENTRAL PARK: WHEN THE IRA CAME TO NEW YORK
Written by Bulik, Mark
A compelling, action-packed account of the only officially sanctioned I.R.A attack ever conducted on American soil. In 1922, three of the Irish Republican Army's top gunmen arrived in New York City seeking ven-geance. Their target: "Cruxy" O'Connor, a young Irishman who kept switching sides as revolution swept his country in the wake of World War I.
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