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Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
Publisher: Penguin Books 2004
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Building on biographies by Richard Brookhiser and Willard Sterne Randall, Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton provides what may be the most comprehensive modern examination of the often overlooked Founding Father. From the start, Chernow argues that... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730
by Joyce D. Goodfriend
Publisher: Princeton University Press 1995
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From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Jewish immigrants, as well as a large African-American population. Joyce... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Cityplay
by Amanda Dargan, Steve Zeitlin
Publisher: Rutgers University Press 1990
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A paean to play by a husband-and-wife team of folklorists, this hodgepodge of facts, quotes, scholarship and stories traces New York City frolics from the Triassic period (origin of the brownstone) through the introduction of elevators, electric street... > 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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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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A Maritime History of New York
by WPA Writers' Project
Publisher: Going Coastal, Inc. 2004
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Republication of a seminal work about New York City’s waterfront which begins with the formation of New York Harbor in the Ice Age and covers the history of the great seaport through when the book was first published in 1941. The Going Coastal edition... > 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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