UID:
edocfu_9959660963102883
Format:
1 online resource (0 pages)
Edition:
5th ed.
ISBN:
0-19-975864-6
Content:
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 know more about New York City. First published in 1968, the AIA Guide to New York City has long been the definitive guide to the city's architecture. Moving through all five boroughs, neighborhood by neighborhood, it offers the most complete overview of New York's significant places, past and present. The Fifth Edition continues to include places of historical importance--including extensive coverage of the World Trade Center site--while also taking full account of the construction boom of the past 10 years, a boom that has given rise to an unprecedented number of new buildings by such architects as Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, and Renzo Piano. All of the buildings included in the Fourth Edition have been revisited and re-photographed and much of the commentary has been re-written, and coverage of the outer boroughs--particularly Brooklyn--has been expanded. Famed skyscrapers and historic landmarks are detailed, but so, too, are firehouses, parks, churches, parking garages, monuments, and bridges. Boasting more than 3000 new photographs, 100 enhanced maps, and thousands of short and spirited entries, the guide is arranged geographically by borough, with each borough divided into sectors and then into neighborhood. Extensive commentaries describe the character of the divisions. Knowledgeable, playful, and beautifully illustrated, here is the ultimate guided tour of New York's architectural treasures. Acclaim for earlier editions of the AIA Guide to New York City: "An extraordinarily learned, personable
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exegesis of our metropolis. No other American or, for that matter, world city can boast so definitive a one-volume guide to its built environment." -- Philip Lopate, New York Times "Blithe in spirit and unerring in vision." -- New York Magazine "A definitive record of New York's architectural heritage... witty and helpful pocketful which serves as arbiter of architects, Baedeker for boulevardiers, catalog for the curious, primer for preservationists, and sourcebook to students. For all who seek to know of New York, it is here. No home should be without a copy." -- Municipal Art Society "There are two reasons the guide has entered the pantheon of New York books. One is its encyclopedic nature, and the other is its inimitable style--'smart, vivid, funny and opinionated' as the architectural historian Christopher Gray once summed it up in pithy W & W fashion." -- Constance Rosenblum, New York Times "A book for architectural gourmands and gastronomic gourmets." -- The Village Voice.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- MANHATTAN -- Lower Manhattan -- Financial District -- Water Street Corridor -- South Street Seaport -- Broadway-Nassau -- Battery Park City -- World Trade Center Area -- Tribeca/Lower West Side -- Civic Center -- Chinatown/Little Italy -- Lower East Side -- SoHo -- The Villages -- Greenwich Village -- Washington Square & -- Environs -- Astor Place, NoHo, & -- Environs -- West Village -- South Village/West SoHo/The Glass Box District -- East Village -- Midtown Manhattan -- Chelsea -- Gansevoort Market -- The High Line and West Chelsea -- Hudson River Park -- Ladies Mile -- Union Square to Gramercy Park -- Stuyvesant Square and North -- Rose Hill -- Kips Bay -- Madison Square to Bryant Park -- Madison Square to the Javits Center -- Murray Hill -- Clinton -- Times Square to Columbus Circle -- Grand Central/Park Avenue -- The Fifth Avenue Swath -- United Nations/Turtle Bay -- Upper West Side -- Lincoln Center -- Riverside Drive/West End Avenue -- Broadway and Environs -- Central Park West/The Park Blocks -- West Side Urban Renewal Area -- Manhattan Valley -- Central Park -- Upper East Side -- The Gold Coast -- Metropolitan Museum Vicinity -- Carnegie Hill and Beyond -- East of Eden -- Hospitalia -- Yorkville -- Gracie Square and Environs -- The Heights and the Harlems -- Morningside Heights -- Manhattanville -- Hamilton Heights -- Harlem -- East Harlem -- Upper Manhattan -- Washington Heights -- BROOKLYN -- West Central Brooklyn -- Civic Center/Downtown Brooklyn -- Brooklyn Heights -- Fulton Ferry -- Dumbo -- Vinegar Hill -- The Navy Yard -- Cobble Hill -- Carroll Gardens -- Gowanus -- Red Hook -- Boerum Hill -- Fort Greene -- Clinton Hill -- Park Slope -- Prospect Heights -- Grand Army Plaza -- Prospect Park -- Institute Park -- Bedford-Stuyvesant -- Crown Heights -- Northern Brooklyn -- Bushwick-Ridgewood -- Williamsburg.
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East Williamsburg -- Greenpoint -- Central Brooklyn -- Central Flatbush -- Prospect Park South -- Ditmas Park -- East Flatbush/Rugby -- Windsor Terrace/Parkville -- Southwestern Brooklyn -- Sunset Park and Environs -- Bay Ridge/Fort Hamilton/Dyker Heights -- Bensonhurst/Bath Beach -- Southern Brooklyn -- Gravesend -- Sheepshead Bay -- Gerritsen Beach -- Marine Park/Manhattan and Brighton Beaches -- Coney Island -- Southeastern Brooklyn -- Midwood -- Flatlands -- Canarsie -- Eastern Brooklyn -- Highland Park/Cypress Hills -- Brownsville -- East New York -- New Lots -- Spring Creek -- QUEENS -- Western Queens -- Hallets Point -- Ravenswood -- Astoria -- Ditmars/Steinway -- South Astoria -- Sunnyside -- Woodside -- Hunters Point -- Queens West -- Long Island City/Blissville -- Central Queens -- North Beach -- Jackson Heights -- Corona -- Flushing Meadows-Corona Park -- Elmhurst -- Rego Park/Maspeth -- Ridgewood -- Middle Village/Glendale -- Forest Hills -- Kew Gardens -- Northeastern Queens -- College Point -- Malba -- Whitestone -- Beechhurst -- Flushing -- Murray Hill/Broadway-Flushing/Auburndale -- Fresh Meadows -- Bayside -- Southern Queens -- Woodhaven -- Richmond Hill -- Jamaica -- Hollis/St. Albans/South Ozone Park -- Far Queens -- Douglaston Manor -- Douglaston/Glen Oaks/Creedmoor -- Queens Village/Cambria Heights/Laurelton/JFK Airport -- Howard Beach -- Far Rockaway -- Bayswater/Arverne -- Broad Channel -- Riis Park -- THE BRONX -- Southern Bronx -- Mott Haven -- Port Morris/Melrose -- The Hub -- Morrisania -- Crotona Park -- Longwood -- Hunts Point -- Central Bronx -- Twin Parks West/Tremont -- Fordham University -- Belmont -- West Farms -- Bronx Zoo -- New York Botanical Garden -- Western Bronx -- The Grand Concourse -- Highbridge Heights -- University Heights -- Kingsbridge Heights -- Kingsbridge/Marble Hill (Manhattan)/Bedford Park.
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Norwood -- Riverdale -- Spuyten Duyvil -- Riverdale -- North Riverdale -- Fieldston -- Van Cortlandt Park -- Eastern Bronx -- Soundview/Clason Point -- Unionport/Van Nest -- Parkchester/Westchester Square -- Morris Park -- Pelham Parkway Neighborhood -- Bronxdale/Throgs Neck -- Pelham Bay -- City Island -- Northern Bronx -- Williamsbridge -- Baychester/Eastchester -- Wakefield -- STATEN ISLAND -- Northern Staten Island -- St. George -- New Brighton -- Livingston -- West Brighton -- Port Richmond -- Mariners Harbor -- Eastern Staten Island -- Tompkinsville/Stapleton -- Stapleton Heights -- Clifton -- Rosebank -- Arrochar -- Central Staten Island -- Westerleigh -- Sunnyside -- Willowbrook -- Grymes Hill -- Emerson Hill/Dongan Hills/Concord/Todt Hill -- Egbertville -- New Dorp -- Richmond Town -- Southern Staten Island -- Eltingville -- Great Kills/Rossville -- Woodrow -- Charleston -- Richmond Valley/Tottenville -- Mount Loretto/Princes Bay -- Annadale/Huguenot -- THE OTHER ISLANDS -- Liberty Island/Ellis Island -- Governors Island -- Roosevelt Island -- Wards Island/Randalls Island/North and South Brother Islands -- SUBJECT INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- ADDRESS INDEX -- BRONX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- BROOKLYN -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- MANHATTAN -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- STATEN ISLAND -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-538386-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-538385-0
Language:
English
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