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Blizzard!
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Murphy, Jim |
Presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snow storm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City. |
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire of 1911
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Gina DeAngelis |
Examines, using eyewitness accounts, the tragedy that killed 146 workers in a New York City garment factory. |
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97 Orchard
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Jane Ziegelman |
In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century—a city within a city, where Germans, Irish,… |
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The Savage City
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T. J. English |
The safest big city in America? That would be the question a certain generation of New Yorkers would ask someone who praises New York for it's safety and prosperity. A generation that has experienced… |
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Downtown
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Pete Hamill |
A history of Manhattan from the perspective of a forty-year journalist conveys the author's intimate knowledge of the region's neighborhoods and people, from former 1920s speakeasies to the cobblesto… |
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Shutting out the sky
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Deborah Hopkinson |
Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at t… |
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James Levine
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Metropolitan Opera |
229 p. : 29 cm |
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The Celluloid Activist
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Michael R. Schiavi |
The Celluloid Activist is the biography of gay rights activist and film historian, Vito Russo. He wrote The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies. The first edition (of Celluloid Closet) was … |
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High Rock and The Greenbelt
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Mitchell, John G. |
xiii, 166 p. : 24 cm |
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Breaking ground, breaking silence
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Joyce Hansen |
Describes the discovery and study of the African burial site found in Manhattan in 1991, while excavating for a new building, and what it reveals about the lives of black people in Colonial times. |
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Law & disorder
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Bruce Chadwick |
" Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless … |
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New York The Empire State
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Professor John Hamilton |
48 pages : 26 cm |
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Hudson Valley tales and trails
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Patricia Edwards Clyne |
"Lifelong Hudson valley resident and master yarn-spinner Patricia Edwards Clyne has gathered together the region's folklore, historical footnotes, unforgettable personalities and natural wonders, and… |
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On this spot
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Susan E. Goodman |
The changing image of one geographic area in New York City is traced from the present back to millions of years ago. |
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The village
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John Strausbaugh |
This is an anecdotal history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood, from the 1600s to the present. The most famous neighborhood in the world, Gree… |
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Machine made
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Terry Golway |
A journalist, historian, and expert on the Irish American experience tackles the common stereotypes and presents a revisionist version of the notoriously crooked Tammany Hall, describing the crucial … |
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Lily Dale
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Christine Wicker |
In Lily Dale, New York, the dead don't die. Instead, they flit among the elms and stroll along the streets. According to spiritualists who have ruled this community for five generations, the spirits … |
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Heir to the Empire City
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Edward P. Kohn |
"Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president--an outdoorsy, rough-riding figure who was as versatile with a six-shooter as he was with a pen, and who derived hi… |
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Power at ground zero
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Lynne B. Sagalyn |
"The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world. War has raged in the Middle East … |
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Fear city
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Kim Phillips-Fein |
"An epic and riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster--and an anatomy of the politics of austerity that continues to shape the world today. When the news broke in 1975 that New York … |
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