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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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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 Read moreIn 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 Read moreOffers 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
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The Archaeology of Kingston, New York
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive analysis of eighty-eight archaeological sites in and around the City of Kingston, New York.
The Archaeology of Kingston, New York covers Kingston (and New York State and the Hudson Vall
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Diamond, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 482
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855803983
- Language: English
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Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
$22.99 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster–and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today When the news broke in 1975- Author: Phillips-Fein, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160073
- Language: English
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A History Lover’s Guide to Washington, D.C.: Designed for Democracy
$24.99 Add to cartJoin author Alison Fortier for a walk through our United States Capital and its iconic locations.
This tour of the nation’s capital goes beyond the traditional guidebook to offer a historical journey
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Fortier, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1467170488
- Language: English
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Greater Philadelphia and the Nation: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 2
$44.95 Add to cartInformed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater P
- Author: Mires, Charlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1512826634
- Language: English
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Greater Philadelphia and the World: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 3
$44.95 Add to cartInformed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the World and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater Ph
- Author: Heath, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 151282738X
- Language: English
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The Greater Philadelphia Region: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1
$44.95 Add to cartInformed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, The Greater Philadelphia Region and its companion volumes Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and Greater P
- Author: Gillette, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1512826049
- Language: English
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Who Put the ‘East’ in East Aurora?: And Other Chronicles of Our Past
$24.99 Add to cartIt’s been said that East Aurora, New York is straight out of a Hallmark Christmas movie, an observation perhaps given credence after the filming of an actual Hallmark Christmas movie in the village in
- Series: Historic East Aurora #1
- Author: Goller, Robert Lowell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999609106
- Language: English
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The Sewards of New York: A Biography of a Leading American Political Family
$37.95 Add to cartThe Sewards of New York shines a light on one of the most important and fascinating political families of the nineteenth century. Through recently discovered family correspondence, Thomas P. Slaughter
- Author: Slaughter, Thomas P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501782657
- Language: English
