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Gangsters and Organized Crime in Buffalo: History, Hits and Headquarters
$23.99 Read moreTake a tour of Buffalo, NY’s mobster and mafia history. Local mob expert reveals gangsters’ stories, hangouts and more.
Buffalo has housed its fair share of thugs and mobsters. Besides common criminals
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Rizzo, Michael F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 1609495640
- Language: English
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Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City
$31.95 Add to cartIn Kings of the Garden, Adam J. Criblez traces the fall and rise of the New York Knicks between the 1973, the year they won their last NBA championship, and 1985, when the organization drafted Patrick
- Author: Criblez, Adam J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501773933
- Language: English
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Drawn by the River: The Hudson River Valley as a Comics Ecosystem
$37.95 Add to cartPlaces comics studies in lively dialogue with landscape art and regional studies to shed new light on the Hudson River Valley as an artistic, social, cultural, and natural environment.
Drawn by the Riv
- Series: Suny Series, an American Region: Studies in the Hudson Valle
- Author: Fitzgibbons, Moira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: April 02 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855803822
- Language: English
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More Punk Than the Public Library: The Adventures of a Little Free Punk Rock Bookstore
$15.99 Add to cart- Author: Bennett, J. Hunter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1648414265
- Language: English
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Hollywood in Ohio
$24.99 Add to cartToo few know of the screen legends from Ohio and the outsized impact the state had in establishing Hollywood as the filmmaking capital of the world.
Hollywood and Ohio are much closer than one might a
- Author: Hinds, Conrade C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1467159360
- Language: English
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Thrill Ride: The Transformation of Hersheypark
$29.99 Add to cartMore than an amusement park linked to a chocolate empire, Hershey Park in its early years was an extension of industrialist Milton Hershey’s paternalistic capitalism. Hershey sought to avoid the labor
- Series: Keystone Books
- Author: Haddad, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0271099925
- Language: English
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
$20.00 Add to cartIn 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 … [more below]
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400078679
- Language: English
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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center
$27.00 Add to cartIn this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, acclaimed author and journalist Daniel Okrent weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to t… [more below]
- Author: Okrent, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0142001775
- Language: English
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Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange
$29.95 Add to cartOffers a panoramic view of New York City in the 1920s, uncovering hidden histories from within entertainment, politics, arts, technology, and the law.
Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York offers a fre
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Goldman, Jonathan Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855806212
- Language: English
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New York’s Family Grocer: The Story of d’Agostino Supermarkets
$34.95 Add to cartFrom pushcart to pantry staple in the city that never sleeps
New York’s Family Grocer tells how a neighborhood name became part of the city’s daily rhythm. Patsy and Nicholas D’Agostino arrived from I- Author: Schmitz, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1531513220
- Language: English
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Georgetown’s Retail Past: Generations of Shops and Restaurants in One of America’s Great Historic Neighborhoods
$34.95 Add to cartStep back in time and rediscover the bars and restaurants, mom-and-pop shops, and bustling storefronts that shaped historic Georgetown.
Georgetown’s Retail Past is a history of retail stores in the Ge- Author: Peters, Kenneth G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1493093622
- Language: English
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The Black History of the White House
$19.95 Add to cartThe Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved pe
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Lusane, Clarence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0872865320
- Language: English
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Nazis of Long Island: Sedition, Espionage & the Plot Against America
$24.99 Add to cartIn Yaphank, New York, hid the greatest threat to the United States war effort during World War II: the American Nazi.
Building on racial and ethnic biases, lack of trust in government and a dose of co
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Verga, Christopher C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1467156493
- Language: English
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The Gramercy Park Hotel: A New York Icon
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the Roaring Twenties to a Rock ‘N’ Roll Landmark
Since it opened in 1925, the Gramercy Park Hotel has always been one of New York’s premiere cultural hotspots. Early in its history it served as th
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Weissberg, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1467158844
- Language: English
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Railroaded: A Motorman’s Story of the New York City Subway
$27.95 Add to cartThe New York City subway system is one of the largest and oldest in the world, still carrying traces of the transport systems that came before it. Some of its elevated tracks are remnants of steam rai
- Author: Naiden, Fred S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1978844093
- Language: English
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Forgotten New Jersey: The Garden State’s Unique, Historic, and Abandoned Curiosities
$24.99 Add to cartOffers a visual journey through the state’s abandoned historical sites, showcasing its neglected architectural heritage.
Five-hundred-year-old buildings are easy to find across the Atlantic, yet here i… [more below]
- Series: Abandoned Union
- Author: Romano, Rich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 02 2025
- ISBN10: 162545144X
- Language: English
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Creative Ozone: The Artists of Westbeth
$29.95 Add to cartA captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists’ residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York’s cultural landscape for over fifty years
In 1970, the former Bell Telephone- Author: Chaiken, Miriam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1531511775
- Language: English
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The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906: Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools
$34.95 Add to cartToday’s battles over Christianity in U.S. public schools have deep roots. In the nineteenth century it was an intramural struggle between Protestants and later-arriving Catholics. But at Christmastime… [more below]
- Author: Seligman, Scott D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126546
- Language: English
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Steam and Steel: The Eastern Shore of Virginia 1870-1884
$25.00 Add to cartThe years following the Civil War were fraught with change for the people of the Virginia counties of Accomack and Northampton on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay. War had altered patterns of trade… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Brooks Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: November 21 2025
- ISBN10: 162806451X
- Language: English
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River: A Hudson Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartLeslie Day’s life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin–a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In her hea
- Author: Day, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501783882
- Language: English
