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Chronicles
by Bob Dylan
Publisher: Simon & Schuster -2004
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"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else."
So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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City Room
by Arthur Gelb
Publisher: Putnam 2003
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When Arthur Gelb joinedThe New York Times in 1944, manual typewriters, green eyeshades, spittoons, floors littered with cigarette butts, and two bookies were what he found in the city room. Gelb was twenty, his position the lowliest-night copy boy.... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Cooperative Village
by Frances Madeson
Publisher: Carol MRP Co. 2007
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Called “anarchically funny” and “a blast of light in a dark time,” Cooperative Village is a ferociously comic novel which tells the tale of an ordinary New Yorker who becomes bound for “enemy combatant status”—and possible deportation to... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Down These Mean Streets
by Piri Thomas
Publisher: Vintage Books USA 1997
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Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Factory Made: Warhol And The Sixties
by Steven Watson
Publisher: Pantheon Books 2003
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Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties is a fascinating look at the avant-garde group that came together—from 1964 to 1968—as Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory, a cast that included Lou Reed, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, Joe... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Forever
by Pete Hamill
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 2003
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Cormac O'Connor, who arrives in New York City from Ireland in 1741, has been given the gift of immortality--but only on the condition that he never leave the island of Manhattan. Through his eyes, this magical epic follows the city's transformation from... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Harlem Reader: A Celebration Of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood, From The Renaissance Years To The Twenty-First Century
by Herb Boyd
Publisher: Three Rivers Press 2003
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Creating a stunning mosaic of Harlem, award-winning editor Boyd has collected stories, poems, rap, personal memories, and narratives, in the unforgettable voices of Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Ann Petry, Chester Himes, Ruby Dee, Willie... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars
by Elizabeth Ewen
Publisher: Monthly Review Press 1985
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At the turn of the century, millions of European women set sail with their families with the United States. Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars tells the story of the Jewish and Italian women who came to inhabit New York's Lower East Side during this... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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It Happened On Washington Square
by Emily Kies Folpe
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press 2002
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The heart of New York City's Greenwich Village, Washington Square Park has been a vital public space for nearly two centuries. Lined by elegant townhouses, anchored by Stanford White's iconic Washington Arch, and used by students and professionals, dog... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Mrs. Astor's New York
by Eric Homberger
Publisher: Yale University Press 2002
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Mrs. Astor, undisputed queen of New York society in the decades before the First World War, used her prestige to create a social aristocracy of unparalleled extravagance and exclusivity. Her story, which reads like a novel by Edith Wharton, sheds... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan
by Phillip Lopate
Publisher: Crown Publishers 2004
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Fusing history, lore, politics, culture, and on-site adventures, esteemed essayist and author Phillip Lopate takes us on an exuberant, affectionate, and eye-opening excursion around Manhattan’s shoreline. Waterfront captures the ever-changing character... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
by D. Graham Burnett
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740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
by Michael Gross
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A House On The Heights
by Truman Capote
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A Moment in the Sun
by John Sayles
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Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City
by Julie Miller
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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, The Birth of the "It" Girl and The Crime of the Century.
by Paula Uruburu
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Fat of the Land: The Garbage Behind New York-The Last Two Hundred Years
by Benjamin Miller
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Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners during the American Revolution
by Edwin G. Burrows
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Gastropolis: Food and New York City
by Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, eds.
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Gravesend, Brooklyn: Then and Now
by Joseph Ditta
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Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s
by Stefan M. Bradley
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Here is New York
by E. B. White
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Life on the Lower East Side: Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950
by Rebecca Lepkoff, Suzanne Wasserman, Peter Dans
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Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York
by Samuel Zipp
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Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams
by Mark Kingwell
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New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area
by Edward Sibley Barnard
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On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
by Marshall Berman
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On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in NYC
by Janet Braun-Reinitz and Jane Weissman
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Other People’s Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made
by Charles Bagli
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The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction
by Max Page
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