The
Architectural Guidebook to New York City
by Francis Morrone, James Iska (Photographer)
At
Sea in the City: New York from the Water's Edge
by William Kornblum, Pete Hamill, Oliver Williams
Hardcover from Algonquin Books
Celluloid
Skyline: New York and the Movies
by James Sanders
Hardcover from Knopf
Chants
Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850
by Sean Wilentz
Paperback from Oxford University Press
1986
City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization
of Sex, 1790-1920
by Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Listed under Sex Industry
The Complete New York Yankees: The Total Encyclopedia of the Team
by Derek Gentile
Listed under New York Yankees
The
Chrysler Building
by David Stravitz
(Hardcover)
Delirious
New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
by Rem Koolhaas
(Paperback)
The
Encyclopedia of New York City
by Kenneth T. Jackson (Editor), New-York Historical Society
(Hardcover)
Coney
Island: Lost and Found
by Charles Denson
(Paperback)
Evolution of New York City Subways: An Illustrated History of New
York City's Transit Cars, 1867-1997
by Gene Sansone, Clifton Hood
Listed under American Railroads
Firehouse
by David Halberstam
Hardcover from Hyperion Press
Five
Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance,
Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
by Tyler Anbinder
Paperback from Plume
Gotham:
A History of New York City to 1898 (The History of NYC Series)
by Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
Paperback from Oxford Press
Great
Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center
by Daniel Okrent
Hardcover from Viking Press
Gotham:
A History of New York City to 1898 (The History of NYC Series)
by Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
Like the city it celebrates, Gotham is massive and endlessly fascinating.
This narrative of well over 1,000 pages, written after more than two decades
of collaborative research by history professors Edwin G. Burrows and Mike
Wallace, copiously chronicles New York City from the primeval days of the
Lenape Indians to the era when, with Teddy Roosevelt as police commissioner,
the great American city became regarded as "Capital of the World." The
sheer bulk of the book may be off- putting, but the reader can use a typically
New York approach: Those who don't settle in for the entire history can
easily "commute" in and out to read individual chapters, which stand alone
nicely and cover the major themes of particular eras very well.
While Gotham is fact-laden (with a critical apparatus that includes
a bibliography and two indices--one for names, another for subjects), the
prose admirably achieves both clarity and style. "What is our take, our
angle, our schtick?" ask the authors, setting a distinctly New York tone
in their introduction. No matter what it's called, their method of weaving
together countless stories works wonderfully. The startlingly detailed
research and lively writing bring innumerable characters (from Peter Minuit
to Boss Tweed) to life, and even those who think they know the history
of New York City will no doubt find surprises on nearly every page. Gotham
is a rarity, reigning as both authoritative history and page-turning story.
--Robert
McNamara - Amazon.com
(Paperback)
The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
by Herbert Asbury
Listed under Street Gangs
Grand Central Terminal : Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture
in New York City
by Kurt C. Schlichting
Listed under American Railroads
The
Historical Atlas of New York City : A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400
Years of New York City's History
by Eric Homberger, Alice Hudson (Illustrator)
History of the 124th Regiment of New York State Volunteers: The Orange
Blossom Regiment
by Charles H. Weygant, Garry E. Adelman, Lt. Col. Charles H. Weygant
Listed under Civil War
New York
Hudson
River Journey: Images from Lake Tear of the Clouds to New York Harbor
by Hardie Truesdale, Joanne Michaels, Pete Seeger, Alex Matthiessen
Hardcover from Countryman Pr
Lost New York in Old Post Cards
by Rod, Jr. Kennedy
Listed under Collectible
Postcards
Journeys
to the Brink of Doom: True Stories of Disaster, Mystery and Heroism at
Niagara Falls
by T. W. Kriner
Paperback from J & J Pub
Luxury
Apartment Houses of Manhattan: An Illustrated History
by Andrew Alpern
(Paperback - April 1993)
The
Mole People : Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
by Francis Morrone, James Iska (Photographer)
Alligators breeding in the sewers of New York City is an urban legend;
thousands of people living in the tunnels beneath New York is not. Ms.
Toth has written a compelling, compassionate and extraordinary documentary
about the "Mole People." Amazon.com
The
New York City Audubon Society Guide to Finding Birds in the Metropolitan
Area
by Marcia T. Fowle et al.
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr;
The
New York Pop-Up Book
by Marie Salerno (Editor), Arthur Gelb (Editor)
Names,
Names and More Names : Locating Locating Your Dutch Ancestor in Colonial
America
by Arthur C. M. Kelly
Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York
by Evan T. Pritchard
Listed under Algonquin Indians
New
York: An Illustrated History
by Ric Burns, James Sanders, Lisa Ades
Paperback from Knopf
New York Giants : 75 Years of Football Memories
by Victoria J. Parrillo
Listed under New York Giants
The New York Times Page One 1851-2001: Special Commemorative Edition
Celebrating 150 Years of the New York Times
by New York Times (Editor)
(Hardcover)
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New York Times Page One : One Hundred Years of Headlines As Presented in
the New York Times
by New York Times (Editor)
Hardcover: 416 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.77 x
14.88 x 10.93
Publisher: Budget Book Service; ;
ISBN: 1578660882
New
York : Then and Now
by Annette Witheridge
Book Description With concrete and steel covering every inch
of Manhattan and the other boroughs, New York is the city of the 20th century.
This installment of the Then and Now series documents the evolution and
transformation of the archetypal metropolis. Seventy modern color photographs
are compared side-by-side with seventy archival photographs from the 1850s
to the 1950s. While focusing on famous vistas and familiar landmarks, it
also explores well-known neighborhoods.
(Hardcover)
New
York's Hudson : America's Valley
by Ted Spiegel
Hardcover from Involvement Media, Inc.
Old
Queens, N.Y. in Early Photographs (Dover Books on New York City)
by Vincent F. Seyfried, William Asadorian
(Paperback - December 1991)
The
Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
Paperback: 1246 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.81
x 9.13 x 6.15
Publisher: Random House (Paper); (July 1975)
ISBN: 0394720245
10,000 VITAL RECORDS OF WESTERN NEW YORK, 1809-1850
by Fred Q. Bowman
Listed under New York Genealogy
The
People's Choice : A History of Albany County in Art and Architecture
by Allison P. Bennett
Publisher: Purple Mountain Pr Ltd; Reprint edition
Republic
of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960
by Ross Wetzsteon
(Hardcover)
Roadside Geology of New York (Roadside Geology Series)
by Bradford B. Van Diver
Listed under Roadside Geology
Syracuse
and Its Surroundings: A Victorian Photo Tour of New York's Salt City
by H. P. Smith, et al
(Paperback)
The
Timeline History of New York City
by Gillian Playne, David Playne
Hardcover from Palgrave Macmillan
Times Square and 42nd Street in Vintage Postcards
by Randall Gabrielan
Listed under Collectible
Postcards
Triangle:
The Fire That Changed America
by David Von Drehle
Book Description: On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out in the
Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes
it had spread to consume the building's upper three stories. Firemen who
arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside: their
ladders simply weren't tall enough. People on the street watched in horror
as desperate workers jumped to their death. The final toll was 146 people
-- 123 of them women. It was the worst disaster in New York City history.
This harrowing...
Hardcover from Atlantic Monthly Press
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The
Triangle Fire
by Leon Stein, William Greider
Paperback from Ilr Pr
UPSTATE NEW YORK IN THE 1760s: Tax Lists and selected Militia Rolls
of old Albany County
by Florence Christoph
Listed under New York Genealogy
The
Ungovernable City : John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York
by Vincent J. Cannato
Westchester
County: A Pictorial History
by Swanson, Elizabeth Green Fuller
Gilded City : Scandal and Sensation in Turn of the Century New York
by M. H. Dunlop
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