About New York City

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and misshaping) of twentiethcentury New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of o...

"Patti Smith has graced us with a poetic masterpiece, a rare and privileged invitation to unlatch a treasure chest never before breached." Johnny DeppIt was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would e...

The American classic about a young girl's comingofage at the turn of the century."A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart of life... If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn you will deny yourself a rich experience... It is a poignant and deeply understanding story of childhood and family relationships. The N...

The novel follows the lives of the title characters, a Czech artist named Joe Kavalier and a Brooklynborn writer named Sam Clay?both Jewish?before, during, and after World War II. Kavalier and Clay become major figures in the nascent comics industry during its "Golden Age."...

Lionel Essrog is Brooklyns very own selfappointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincents Home for Boys, he works for smalltime mobster Frank Minnas limo service cum detective agency. Life with...

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the m...

A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo?s most powerful and riveting novel??a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling pageturner? (San Francisco Chronicle)?Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century in America and about two people, an artist and an executive, whose lives intertwine in New York in the fifties ...

The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It's a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem follows the knitting and unraveling ...

The dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world?s longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough.This monumental book is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nati...

When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peglegged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records?recently declared a...

Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums; the teeming streetsscene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded hous...

?Of all the incomparable stable of journalists who wrote for The New Yorker during its glory days in the Fifties and Sixties,? writes The Independent, ?the most distinctive was Irishborn Maeve Brennan.? From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker?s ?Talk of the Town? column under the pen name ?The LongWinded Lady.? Her unforgettable...

?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 Time...

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middleaged doortodoor salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe?s wife, Violet, attacks the girl?s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a...

Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ?70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent, curious, wry,...

Before Valley of the Dolls and Sex and the Citythe iconic novel of ambitious career girls in New York CityWhen it was first published in 1958, Rona Jaffe's debut novel electrified readers who saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. There's Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from t...

97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement...

New York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she?s been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered?all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, business, society, and culture. Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter, a lifelong diary enthusiast, scoured the archives of libraries, historical societ...

Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor named Julius wanders, reflecting on his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past. He encounters people from different cultures and classes who will provide insight on his journey?which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most unr...

?Among the best citycentric series.??New York TimesTHE BOWERY BOYS' OFFICIAL COMPANION TO THEIR WILDLY POPULAR, AWARDWINNING PODCASTThe Bowery Boys podcast is a phenomenon, thrilling audiences each month with one amazing story after the next. Now, in their firstever book, the duo gives you an exclusive personal tour through New York?s old cobble...

Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision," (New York Magazine), and the "definitive record of New York's architectural heritage" (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky's book is an essential reference for everyone with an interest in Architecture, and those who simply want to ...

To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waisthigh grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who h...

In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraperdriven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national to global prominence an urban dynamo driven...

"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music. This book is a glorious revelation."Boston GlobeSpanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive s...

Saloonkeepers and street preachers, gypsies and steelwalking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93yearold ?seafoodetarian? who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades. These are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his reportage for The New Yorker and in four books?McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old M...

Meet Eloise, the precocious darling of the Plaza Hotel!Eloise is a little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York. She is not yet pretty but she is already a Person. Henry James would want to study her. Queen Victoria would recognize her as an Equal. The New York Jets would want to have her on their side. Lewis Carroll would love her (once he...

Forgotten New York is your passport to more than 300 years of history, Architecture,, and memories hidden in plain sight.Houses dating to the first Dutch settlers on Staten Island; yellow brick roads in Brooklyn; clocks embedded in the sidewalk in Manhattan; bishop's crook lampposts in Queens; and a white elephant in the Bronx?this is New York and t...

Through exquisite drawings and storytelling, Julia Jacquette's graphic memoir provides a distinctive account of her childhood in Manhattan in the 1960s and 1970s. Inspired by the adventure playgrounds from her youth growing up in New York City, the painter Julia Jacquette explores the brightly colored structures of the play spaces and the surroundi...

Experience a seldomseen New York City with journalists and NYC natives Sharon Seitz and Stuart Miller as they show you the 42 islands in this city?s diverse archipelago. Within the city?s boundaries there are dozens of islands?some famous, like Ellis, some infamous, like Rikers, and others forgotten, like North Brother, where Typhoid Mary spent ne...

After reading this book, I guarantee that you will never visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or any wonderful, old cavern of a museum) without sneaking into the bathrooms to look for Claudia and her brother Jamie. They're standing on the toilets, still, hiding until the museum closes and their adventure begins. Such is the impact of timeless nove...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Scheduled for release in July 2007 as an ESPN original miniseries, starring John Turturro as Billy Martin, Oliver Platt as George Steinbrenner, and Daniel Sunjata as Reggie Jackson. A kaleidoscopic portrait of New York City in 1977, The Bronx Is Burning is the story of two epic battles: the fight between Ya...

Armed with hundreds of blank maps she had painstakingly printed by hand, Becky Cooper walked Manhattan from end to end. Along her journey she met police officers, homeless people, fashion models, and senior citizens who had lived in Manhattan all their lives. She asked the strangers to ?map their Manhattan? and to mail the personalized maps back to...

Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America?s greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together tales of families rich and poor, nativeborn and immigrant?a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city?s fortunes. From this intimate perspective we see New York?s humble beginnings as a tiny Indian fi...

In any discussion of New York City landmark restaurants, the Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant stands in a class by itself. From its unique position in the Terminal?s lower level, with the famous ?Whispering Gallery? at its entrance, waiters have been serving up platters of the freshest seafood for a century. Here are more than 100 of the resta...

Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody who knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final note makes her think she?s too late....