New York (N.Y.) - History
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Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
$32.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2017!
Here is New York, as you’ve never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, th- Author: Wertz, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0316501212
- Language: English
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New York: An Illustrated History (Revised and Expanded)
$75.00 Read moreAn expanded edition of the only comprehensive illustrated history of New York–with more than 600 ravishing photographs and illustrations–that tells the remarkable 400-year-long story of the city fro… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Ric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 059353414X
- Language: English
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New York City Yesterday and Today: Exploring the City’s Tax Photographs
$29.95 Read moreThe little-known, but utterly fascinating tax photographs from The City of New York’s Hall of Records and how those areas look today. The photographs are an interesting page in the history of the city
- Author: McDonald, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149305211X
- Language: English
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The High Line: A Park to Look Up to
$19.99 Read moreAn illustrated history of New York City’s internationally famous High Line, one of the world’s most innovative and inspiring public parks.
Imagine a very different New York City–one whose streets ar- Author: Tentler-Krylov, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1419756702
- Language: English
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A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park
$18.99 Read moreHow did Central Park become a vibrant gem in the heart of New York City? Follow the visionaries behind the plan as it springs to green life.
In 1858, New York City was growing so fast that new roads a- Author: Yazdani, Ashley Benham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0763696951
- Language: English
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Ghetto Brother: How I Found Peace in the South Bronx Street Gang Wars
$16.99 Add to cartBenjy Melendez, founder of the Ghetto Brothers street gang, social activist, and lead singer of the Ghetto Brothers band, now tells his story: a memoir of life as a late 1960s/early 1970s street gang … [more below]
- Author: Melendez, Benjy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0974970468
- Language: English
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Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York
$39.95 Add to cartBits and pieces of the lives led long before the age of skyscrapers are scattered throughout New York City, found in backyards, construction sites, street beds, and parks. Pottery shards dating to 600
- Author: Rothschild, Nan A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0231194951
- Language: English
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“Our Crowd”: The Great Jewish Families of New York
$24.95 Add to cart“Our Crowd” is Stephen Birmingham’s #1 New York Times-bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in America.
- Author: Birmingham, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493057758
- Language: English
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The Encyclopedia of New York
$42.50 Read moreThe must-have guide to pop culture, history, and world-changing ideas that started in New York City, from the magazine at the center of it all.
Since its founding in 1624, New York City has been a pl- Author: The Editors of New York Magazine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1501166956
- Language: English
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New York City Skyscrapers
$24.99 Read moreNew York City Skyscrapers celebrates the numerous awe-inspiring buildings that have made New York the skyscraper capital of the world. This book traces the history of New York’s tallest structures fro… [more below]
- Series: Postcard History
- Author: Panchyk, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0738572969
- Language: English
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
$20.00 Read more“A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves.”
―John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city,- Author: Sante, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0374528993
- Language: English
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South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City
$34.95 Read moreThirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough–ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, th… [more below]
- Author: Jonnes, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1531501214
- Language: English
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A History Lover’s Guide to New York City
$24.99 Add to cartNew 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.
This tour of the Big A
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Fortier, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119032
- Language: English
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New York: The Novel
$24.00 Add to cartWinner of the David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Historical Fiction
Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and “Required Reading” by the New York Post Edward Rutherfurd ce- Author: Rutherfurd, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0345497422
- Language: English
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Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York
$27.95 Add to cartDuring the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse metropolis. In Police and the Empire City Matthew Guariglia tells the history o… [more below]
- Author: Guariglia, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1478025409
- Language: English
