Product Description: From Broadway and Wall Street to the farthest reaches of New York's fabled subway system, and with numerous stops in between, this publication celebrates the occupational skills, crafts, knowledge, and traditions that have made New York legendary...read more

Product Description: Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940. In particular, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces-such as the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway-have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition...read more

Product Description: This fascinating chronicle traces New York City's growth from Wall Street at the end of the Revolutionary War to Harlem at the turn of the twentieth century. Documenting the frantic construction and speculative frenzy that swept through Manhattan in the nineteenth century, it explores the development of the city's landmark neighborhoods as the rural landscape of Upper Manhattan gave way street by street to today's fashionable residential and commercial districts...read more

Product Description: Greenwich Village is a tourist's dream and a favorite weekend destination for New Yorkers. A part of Manhattan Island that holds its own amid the noise and confusion of the twenty-first century, it still retains much of the character of the old farming community that was part of the original settlement of Manhattan...read more

Product Description: During Prohibition, “Harlem was the ‘in’ place to go for music and booze,” recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop. “Every night the limousines pulled up to the corner,” and out spilled affluent whites, looking for a good time, great jazz, and the unmatchable thrill of doing something disreputable...read more

Product Description: For many Americans at the turn of the twentieth century and into the 1920s, the city of New York conjured dark images of crime, poverty, and the desperation of crowded immigrants. In How New York Became American, 1890–1924 Angela Blake explores how advertising professionals and savvy business leaders "reinvented" the city, creating a brand image of New York that capitalized on the trend toward pleasure travel...read more

The history and development of the Bronx, beginning with its start as a series of commuter villages to its current status as a home for New York's heterogeneous Hispanic and African American population, is traced in a fascinating study of a vibrant American community.

Product Description: Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this narrow peninsula between the ocean and the bay became some of New York City's worst slums...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A lively history of one of Manhattan's most interesting neighborhoods takes a close look at this long-time haven for writers, artists, and intellectuals built around one of the city's most popular parks. (History) (view table of contents)

A collection of fourteen essays traces the history of New York City, exploring its culture and development over the past two hundred years as it evolved from its humble regional origins to its current global significance and analyzing the implications of the construction of Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, and other sites in terms of their influence on urban design and American life as a whole. Reprint.

Details social customs and events occurring from dusk to dawn in the Big Apple from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to early twenty-first-century Times Square, discussing the danger, adventure, and excitement associated with nighttime.

Product Description: Updated edition textbook for economic students. Some features include, art program, interviews, reading between the lines and learning aids. Accompanied by Economic Times Vol. 3 Spring 1994. Paper. DLC: Macroeconomics.