New York (N.Y.) - Social conditions
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
$20.00 Add to cartThe basis of Martin Scorcese’s acclaimed 2003 film, The Gangs of New York is a dramatic and entertaining glimpse at a city’s dark past.
Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling dens, and winding alleys o
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0307388980
- Language: English
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
$20.00 Read moreThe basis of Martin Scorcese’s acclaimed 2003 film, The Gangs of New York is a dramatic and entertaining glimpse at a city’s dark past.
Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling dens, and winding alleys o
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0307388980
- Language: English
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Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Noto
$23.00 Add to cartAll but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrif… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 143914155X
- 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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Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924
$19.99 Read moreIn a stunning nonfiction debut, award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson focuses on five immigrants’ stories to reveal the triumphs and hardships of early 1900s immigrant life in New York.
Acclaimed auth… [more below]
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0439375908
- Language: English
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Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation
$45.00 Add to cartRevolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation is the powerful and celebratory visual record of a contemporary activist movement in New York City, and a moving testament to the enduring power of… [more below]
- Author: Jean, Qween
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1597115304
- Language: English
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New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
$20.99 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book
A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future. Dangerous, filthy, and fallin- Author: Dyja, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1982149795
- Language: English
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
$21.00 Add to cartThis New York Times bestseller intimately depicts urban life in a gripping book that slips behind cold statistics and sensationalism to reveal the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta gl… [more below]
- Author: LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0743254430
- Language: English
