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

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 ha...
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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 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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A Study Of Community: Staten Island Architecture and Environment

By: George SZEKELY

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Continuum: January 1980

Seller ID: 247104

ISBN: B002K7MMDO

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)

By: John F. Kasson

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: Mr. Luther S. Harris

Price: $24.98

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: October 2003

Seller ID: 197475

ISBN: 080187341X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - 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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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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City on a Grid: How New York Became New York

By: Gerard Koeppel

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Da Capo Press: October 2015

Seller ID: 239190

ISBN: 0306822849

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. Created in 1811 by a three-man commission featuring headstrong Founding Father Gouverneur Morris, the plan called for a dozen parallel avenues crossing at right angles with many dozens of parallel streets in an unbroken grid. Hills and valleys, streams and ponds, forests and swamps were invisible to the grid; so too were country villages, roads, farms, and estates and generations of property lines. All would disappear as the crosshatch fabric of the grid overspread the island: a heavy greatcoat on the l...
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City on two rivers: Profiles of New York--yesterday and today

By: Stephen Longstreet

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Hawthorn Books: January 1975

Seller ID: 248157

ISBN: 0801513103

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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

By: Sparberg Alexiou, Alice

Price: $14.98

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: July 2018

Seller ID: 229012

ISBN: 1250021383

Condition: New

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

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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EmigrÃ© New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944

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

Epic of New York City: A Narrative History (Dorset Reprints - Old Town Books)

By: Edward Robb Ellis

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Marboro Books: June 1990

Seller ID: 238243

ISBN: 0880295163

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Ethnic New York: A Complete Guide to the Many Faces & Cultures of New York, 2nd Edition (Passport Books)

By: Mark Leeds

Price: $29.98

Publisher: Passport Books: August 1995

Seller ID: 240296

ISBN: 0844296333

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Fear City: The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of the Age of Austerity

By: Kimberly Phillips-Fein

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Metropolitan Books: January 2017

Seller ID: 111498

ISBN: 080509525X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST

An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster--and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today

When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social...
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Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Stories

By: Jack Finney

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: January 1986

Seller ID: 247042

ISBN: 0671506455

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Fortune's Children

By: Arthur T. II Vanderbilt

Price: $7.98

Publisher: WmMorrowPB: February 1991

Seller ID: 214446

ISBN: 0688103863

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Fortune's Children tells the dramatic story of all the amazingly colorful spenders who dissipated such a vast inheritance.
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Fortune's Children

By: Arthur T. II Vanderbilt

Price: $9.98

Publisher: WmMorrowPB: February 1991

Seller ID: 246695

ISBN: 0688103863

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship

By: David Dunlap

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press: May 2004

Seller ID: 247268

ISBN: 0231125437

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From modest chapels to majestic cathedrals, and historic synagogues to modern mosques and Buddhist temples: this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook presents 1,079 houses of worship in Manhattan and lays to rest the common perception that skyscrapers, bridges, and parks are the only defining moments in the architectural history of New York City. With his exhaustive research of the city's religious buildings, David W. Dunlap has revealed (and at times unearthed) an urban history that reinforces New York as a truly vibrant center of community and cultural diversity.

Published in conjunction ...
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From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side

By: Janet L. Abu-Lughod

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell: January 1995

Seller ID: 240292

ISBN: 1557865256

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This landmark study explores a new reality in today's inner cities - one that diverges radically from the dominant models of either the urban village, with its shared culture, or the disorganized zone of urban anomie.

Growing numbers of inner city neighbourhoods now contain populations drawn from a multiplicity of ethnicities, subcultures, and classes. These groups may share physical space, but they pursue disparate ways of life and hold very different views of their neighbourhood's future. Such areas have become contested turf - arenas of heated political struggle.

N...
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Gangland New York: The Places and Faces of Mob History

By: Destefano, Anthony

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Globe Pequot Press: May 2015

Seller ID: 202177

ISBN: 1493006002

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Get a taste of New York's underworld by seeing where mobsters lived, worked, ate, played, and died. From the Bowery Boys and the Five Points Gang through the rise of the Jewish "Kosher Nostra" and the ascendance of the Italian Mafia, mobsters have played a major role in the city's history, lurking just around the corner or inside that nondescript building. Bill "the Butcher" Poole, Paul Kelly, Monk Eastman, "Lucky" Luciano, Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, Mickey Spillane, John Gotti--each held sway over New York neighborhoods that nurtured them and gave them power. As families and factions fought...
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Ghosts of Manhattan (NY): Legendary Spirits and Notorious Haunts (Haunted America)

By: Schoenberg, Dr. Philip Ernest

Price: $14.99

Publisher: The History Press: September 2009

Seller ID: 280252

ISBN: 1596298510

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Ghosts abound in Manhattan, and with the aid of Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg's extensive guide, you can still hobnob with cultural icons such as Dorothy Parker and Sherwood Anderson or glimpse Harry Houdini's ghost, who is said to haunt the legendary McSorley's. Even the spirits of America's most illustrious leaders, such as George Washington and Teddy Roosevelt, are said to roam Manhattan. This compendium of haunted locales, based on Dr. Schoenberg's own Ghosts of New York Walking Tours, spans the island, from Alexander Hamilton's grave at Trinity Church to the White Horse Tavern, Dylan Thoma...
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