The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted
At 8:46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers-reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it-until now.
Of the millions of words written about this wrenching day, most were told from the outside looking in. "New York Times" reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn have tak...
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740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building

By: Michael Gross

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Broadway Books: October 2006

Seller ID: 264401

ISBN: 0767917448

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From the author of House of Outrageous Fortune

The last great building to go up along New York's Gold Coast, construction on 740 Park finished in 1930. Since then, 740 ha...
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740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building

By: Gross, Michael

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Broadway: October 2005

Seller ID: 303042

ISBN: 0385512090

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

For seventy-five years, it's been Manhattan's richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day, it is steeped in the purest luxury, the kind most of us could only imagine, until now.
The last great building to go up along New York's Gold Coast, construction on 740 Park finished in 1930. Since then, 740 has been home to an ever-evolving cadre of our wealthiest and most ...
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A beginning,

By: Robert Erskine Ely

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Priv. print., distributed by the Town Hall: January 1944

Seller ID: 230706

ISBN: B0007GXXGU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Booklover's Guide to New York

By: Le-Tan, Cleo

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rizzoli: October 2019

Seller ID: 306896

ISBN: 0847863662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

An illustrated guide to New York City tailored for the book-obsessed explorer showcasing the city's best bookshops; libraries; homes and haunts of world-famous writers; and scenes from literary classics with charming drawings by the famed New Yorker cover artist Pierre Le-Tan.

A Booklover's Guide to New York is a love letter to everything literary in New York City. It is a book all about books. The book is an object in itself, designed as the ultimate little tome any book collector would love to acquire, layered with witty Pierre Le-Tan drawings, as well as photographs of som...
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A Booklover's Guide to New York

By: Le-Tan, Cleo

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rizzoli: October 2019

Seller ID: 308009

ISBN: 0847863662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Guide to Gangsters, Murderers and Weirdos of New York City's Lower East Side

By: Ferrara, Eric

Price: $19.99

Publisher: The History Press: June 2009

Seller ID: 311866

ISBN: 1596296771

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

New York's Lower East Side is the birthplace of everything from organized crime to anarchist movements. In the nineteenth century, an influx of struggling immigrants seeking opportunity met the harsh realities of industrialization. Poverty and squalor fueled a vicious battle for power and political clout. Local historian Eric Ferrara reveals the wicked history of America's most infamous neighborhood, where the abounding graffiti is a testament to the soul and spirit of the slum.
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A History Lover's Guide to New York City (History & Guide)

By: Fortier, Alison

Price: $21.99

Publisher: The History Press: February 2016

Seller ID: 311850

ISBN: 1467119032

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

New 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 Apple goes beyond the traditional guidebook to offer visitors and residents alike a chance to walk back in time along the streets of Manhattan. George Washington took his first oath of office on the steps of Federal Hall. Visitors can still dine at the famed Fraunces Tavern and worship at historic St. Paul's Chapel. From the Brooklyn Bridge to stunning skyscrapers, the city celebrates its own hist...
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A History of New York in 101 Objects

By: Roberts, Sam

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: August 2016

Seller ID: 313571

ISBN: 1476728798

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"Delightfully surprising....A portable virtual museum...an entertaining stroll through the history of one of the world's great cities" (Kirkus Reviews), told through 101 distinctive objects that span the history of New York, almost all reproduced in luscious, full color.

Inspired by A History of the World in 100 Objects, Sam Roberts of The New York Times chose fifty objects that embody the narrative of New York for a feature article in the paper. Many more suggestions came from readers, and so Roberts has expanded the list to 101. Here are just a few of what this keeps...
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A Landmark History of New York

By: Albert Ulmann

Price: $21.99

Publisher: Marula: January 2017

Seller ID: 108931

ISBN: 0738594679

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In a city like New York, governed by a spirit of tearing down and rebuilding at short intervals of time, it is not surprising that landmarks have been destroyed and that old places have been in danger of losing their historical associations. Fortunately, of late, through the worthy efforts of certain patriotic societies, many of the more important historic sites have been determined and marked by suitably inscribed tablets. These memorials serve the double purpose of awakening attention and of investing with an air of reality the events they perpetuate. They are, however, but isolated mementos...
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A Place of Remembrance, Updated Edition: Official Book of the National September 11 Memorial

By: Allison Blais,Lynn Rasic

Price: $9.98

Publisher: National Geographic: August 2015

Seller ID: 260772

ISBN: 1426216106

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The official book created by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, this keepsake volume honors those lost--and celebrates the spirit of hope as it tells the story of rescue, recovery, and the building of the memorial plaza (opened on September 11, 2011), and the museum (opened on May 21, 2014).

Newly updated, this is the one and only official companion book to the memorial plaza, created by the 9/11 Memorial Museum staff and originally published for its opening on the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attack. In somber words and chilling photographs--some never before ...
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Abandoned Industries of New York City: From Rust to Retail and Recreation

By: Anastasio, Joseph

Price: $24.99

Publisher: America Through Time: May 2019

Seller ID: 311872

ISBN: 1634991311

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Abandoned Industries of New York City is a journey through the decaying ruins of the city's forgotten past. Through clandestine photographs and in-depth research, Joseph Anastasio reveals the untold stories of New York City's former industrial glory. The stories behind each location serves as deep-cut prequels and offshoots to well-known news events, including the disappearance of one of NYC's most infamous mobsters, the discovery of a secret 9/11 memorial prototype, and the origin story of the man who saved the US auto industry.

This untold history uncovers unexpected tales that have been...
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Abandoned Long Island

By: Panchyk, Richard

Price: $23.99

Publisher: America Through Time: May 2019

Seller ID: 311839

ISBN: 1634991281

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

As progress marches on, it inevitably leaves behind some spectacular ruins--places that are no longer needed or wanted, yet still stand, clinging to a tenuous existence. This book chronicles a wide-ranging selection of Long Island's numerous abandoned places, including vacant military and industrial buildings, the remnants of once-grand estates, defunct rails and roads, and unused runways. Abandoned places are both historic moments frozen in time, and constantly deteriorating and devolving sites. All of them await one fate or another--whether it is a never-ending descent into decrepitude, comp...
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Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces, 1960-2010 (The MIT Press)

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The MIT Press: September 2012

Seller ID: 306911

ISBN: 0262017962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A groundbreaking history of pioneering alternative art venues in New York where artists experimented, exhibited, and performed outside the white cube and the commercial mainstream.

This groundbreaking book--part exhibition catalogue, part cultural history--chronicles alternative art spaces in New York City since the 1960s. Developed from an exhibition of the same name at Exit Art, Alternative Histories documents more than 130 alternative spaces, groups, and projects, and the significant contributions these organizations have made to the aesthetic and social fabric of New...
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)

By: Kasson, John F.

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Hill and Wang: July 1978

Seller ID: 231688

ISBN: 0809001330

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he a...
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Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York

By: William Grimes

Price: $9.98

Publisher: North Point Press: October 2009

Seller ID: 268452

ISBN: 0865476926

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

New York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen.

In "Appetite"" City," the former "New York Times "restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York's dining culture. Beginning with the era when simple chophouses and oyster bars dominated the culinary scene, he charts the city's transformation into the world restaurant capital it is today. "Appetite City "takes us on a unique and delectable journey, from the days when oysters and turtle were the most popular ingredients in New York cuisine, through the era of the fifty-cent French and Italia...
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Around Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village

By: Harris, Mr. Luther S.

Price: $24.98

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: October 2003

Seller ID: 197475

ISBN: 080187341X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Describing Washington Square, Henry James wrote that it was as if the wine of life had been poured for you, in advance, into some pleasant old punch bowl. Created in 1826 through the visionary efforts of philanthropist and New York City mayor Philip Hone, the elegant and vibrant square anchors one of the world's most storied neighbourhoods, Greenwich Village. Today, the quarter retains much of the charm it possessed in earlier eras, when it served as a mecca for artists and activists, intellectuals and indigents, brahmins and bohemians. Yet its history has been clouded by half-truths and myths...
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Battle Of Brooklyn, 1776

By: John J. Gallagher

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Da Capo Press: June 1995

Seller ID: 221632

ISBN: 188511902X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

As the first great contest between the British and the newly declared American nation, the Battle of Brooklyn has always been underestimated. Although a serious American defeat, the battle contained a impressive display of U.S. courage.
-- 24 pages of illustrations
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Best Hikes Near New York City (Best Hikes Near Series)

By: Keene, Ben

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Falcon Guides: April 2011

Seller ID: 311621

ISBN: 0762761210

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Who says you have to travel far from home to go on a great hike? In Best Hikes Near New York author Ben Keene details the best hikes within an hour's drive of the New York metro area perfect for the urban and suburbanite hard-pressed to find great outdoor activities close to home. Each featured hike includes detailed hike specs, a brief hike description, trailhead location, directional cues, and a detailed map.
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Blue Blood

By: Conlon, Edward

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Riverhead Books: April 2005

Seller ID: 296595

ISBN: 1594480737

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"A great book... with the testimonial force equal to that of Michael Herr's Dispatches."--Time

Edward Conlon's Blue Blood is an ambitious and extraordinary work of nonfiction about what it means to protect, to serve, and to defend among the ranks of New York's finest. Told by a fourth generation NYPD, this is an anecdotal history of New York as experienced through its police force, and depicts a portrait of the teeming street life of the city in all its horror and splendor. It is a story about police politics, fathers and sons, partners who become brothers, old...
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Blue Guide New York (Fourth Edition) (Blue Guides)

By: Wright, Carol V.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Blue Guides Limited of London: August 2008

Seller ID: 283573

ISBN: 1905131232

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

This guide to New York provides background history and expert descriptions of museums, parks, buildings, neighbourhoods and landmarks as well as detailed walking tours throughout Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island.
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Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes

By: Agee, James

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Fordham University Press: October 2005

Seller ID: 303591

ISBN: 0823224929

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

For the first time in book form--a great writer's classic celebration of the essence of Brooklyn.

In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for "creative differences," and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title "Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes."

Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through backstreet neighborhoods like Flatbush, Midwood, and Sheepshead Bay that roll silently to the sea, Agee captured in 1...
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Brooklyn Noir (Akashic Noir Anthologies)

By: N/A

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Akashic Books: July 2004

Seller ID: 292669

ISBN: 1888451580

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Brooklyn Noir is on fire It is an Edgar Award finalist for "The Book Signing" by Pete Hamill; winner of the MWA's Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for "Can't Catch Me" by Thomas Morrissey; a Shamus Award finalist for "Hasidic Noir" by Pearl Abraham; a Pushcart Prize finalist for "Practicing" by Ellen Miller; an Anthony Award finalist for "Hunter/Trapper" by Arthur Nersesian; an Anthony Award finalist for Best Cover Art.

Brooklyn Noir stories "When All This Was Bay Ridge" by Tim McLoughlin and "Case Closed" by Lou Manfredo have both been selected for Best American Mystery Storie...
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Central Park: A Photographic Excursion

By: James Freund

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Fordham University Press: November 2001

Seller ID: 242504

ISBN: 0823221601

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Central Park is New York City's great treasure-an accessible haven for young and old, rich and poor, city-dweller or tourist, to exercise or relax, to take in its beauty and appreciate its multiple points of interest. This book reflects the breadth of photographic possibilities afforded by this unparalleled venue. With more than 250 photographs, in color as well as black and white, this attractive book captures the diversity of today's Park against the kaleidoscopic background of the changing seasons. From landscapes to still life flora, with a broad cross-section of people engaged in multiple...
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Chinatown, Economic Adaptation and Ethnic Identity of the Chinese (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

By: Bernard P. Wong

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston: February 1982

Seller ID: 247803

ISBN: 0030589061

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Chronicles of Old New York: Exploring Manhattan's Landmark Neighborhoods

By: James Roman

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Museyon Inc: June 2010

Seller ID: 247360

ISBN: 0982232063

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The history of New York City is written in its streets; uncover it with Chronicles of Old New York. Discover 400 years of innovation through the true stories of the visionaries, risk-takers, dreamers, and schemers who built Manhattan. Witness life during the city's earliest days, when Greenwich Village was a bucolic suburb and disease was a fact of daily life. Find out which park covers a sea of unmarked graves. Explore the city's dark side, from the slums of Five Points to Harlem's Prohibition-era speakeasies. Then see it all for yourself with guided walking tours of each of Manhattan'...
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Churchyards of Trinity Parish in the City of New York

By: Rector The Rev. John V. Butler

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Corporation of Trinity Church: January 1969

Seller ID: 239367

ISBN: B000IE4180

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

City of Ambition Artists & New York

By: Rizzoli

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Flammarion: July 2001

Seller ID: 247124

ISBN: 2080136283

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

By: Tyler Anbinder

Price: $24.98

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: October 2016

Seller ID: 217660

ISBN: 054410465X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

A defining American story of millions of immigrants, hundreds of languages, and one great city

New York has been America's city of immigrants for nearly four centuries. Growing from Peter Minuit's tiny settlement of 1626 to one with more than three million immigrants today, the city has always been a magnet for transplants from all over the globe. It is only fitting that the United States, a "nation of immigrants," is home to the only world city built primarily by immigration. More immigrants have entered the United States through New York than through all other entry points...
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City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920

By: Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Price: $9.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: March 1994

Seller ID: 247312

ISBN: 0393311082

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In the 19th century, New York saw the development of a sex industry at the heart of a consumer world of entertainment, goods, newspapers and advertising. In this book, Gilfoyle blends first-hand experience with demographic research to present a study of the politics and economics of sex.
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Crooked Brooklyn: Taking Down Corrupt Judges, Dirty Politicians, Killers, and Body Snatchers

By: Michael Vecchione, Jerry Schmeterrer

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books: November 2015

Seller ID: 238717

ISBN: 1250065186

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

From 2001 to 2013, Mike Vecchione was chief of the Rackets Division in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, which was the largest urban prosecution agency in the country. Vecchione grappled with organized crime and dirty politicians, during which he supervised, investigated, and prosecuted major felony cases.

Crooked Brooklyn is a gritty story of corruption, greed and law enforcement. Vecchione navigated a political minefield and expertly rose to the judicial challenges of directing investigations into a wide variety of crimes, from bribe-taking judges to cold-blooded kille...
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

By: Stacy Horn

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Algonquin Books: May 2019

Seller ID: 238591

ISBN: 1616209356

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"A riveting character-driven dive into 19th-century New York and the extraordinary history of Blackwell's Island."
--Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica

On a two-mile stretch of land in New York's East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding . . .

Today we call it Roosevelt Island. Then, it was Blackwell's, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals. Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world ever seen, Blackwell...
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Dawn of a new day : the New York World's Fair, 1939/40

By: Joseph P. Cusker,Helen A. Harrison

Price: $29.98

Publisher: Queens Museum ; New York University Press: January 1980

Seller ID: 247294

ISBN: 0960451412

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Devil's Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery

By: Sparberg Alexiou, Alice

Price: $19.98

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: July 2018

Seller ID: 227151

ISBN: 1250021383

Condition: New

The New York Times Book Review: "Alexiou guides us through this checkered history with gusto."

Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd: "Devil's Mile is a terrific read. Alice Sparberg Alexiou knows her history, and she brings it all brimming to life here in the story of the Bowery, the most notorious street in America."

A fascinating cultural history of New York City's Bowery, from the author of The Flatiron.

The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th century. The ve...
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Education and Culture in Brooklyn: A History of Ten Institutions

By: Carol Lopate

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Brooklyn Rediscovery: January 1979

Seller ID: 247335

ISBN: 0933250010

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Ellis Island and the Peopling of America: The Official Guide

By: Virginia Yans-McLaughlin,Marjorie Lightman

Price: $19.95

Publisher: The New Press: August 1997

Seller ID: 264791

ISBN: 1565843649

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Over 3 million people visit Ellis Island, the "Golden Door to America," every year. Ellis Island has become an invaluable resource center on immigration and genealogy as well as a national tourist attraction, widely praised for its excellent displays and informative exhibits. Now, the best of the Ellis Island Museum is available to readers everywhere from the Ellis Island-Statue of Liberty Foundation. Fascinating primary-source documents offer an exciting overview of Ellis Island, placing it in historical context with a concise history of immigration and global migration. This comprehensive...
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By: Jeffrey Mehlman

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press: April 2000

Seller ID: 229028

ISBN: 0801862868

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Consider the oddly juxtaposed eminence of those in attendance: Wartime New York was the city where French Symbolism, in the person of Maurice Maeterlinck, came to live out its last productive years; where French surrealism, in the person of Andr Breton, came to survive; and where French structuralism, in the person of Claude L vi-Strauss, came to be born. From the largely forgotten prewar visit to the city of P tain and Laval to the seizing, burning, and capsizing of the Normandie, France's floating museum, in the Hudson River, Jeffrey Mehlman evokes the writerly world of French Man...
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Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply

By: David Soll

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cornell University Press: March 2013

Seller ID: 265543

ISBN: 0801449901

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation's largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs, and distant rural watersheds. Almost as soon as New York City completed its first municipal water system in 1842, it began to expand the network, eventually reaching far into the Catskill Mountains, more than one hundred miles from the city. Empire of Water explores the history of New York City's wa...
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End of the road for Ladies' Mile?

By: Margaret Moore

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Drive to Protect the Ladies' Mile District, with the cooperation of the Municipal Art Society and the Historic Districts Council: January 1986

Seller ID: 247125

ISBN: B000714EIG

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew