Format:
282 pages
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chiefly illustrations
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32 cm
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
0316501212
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9780316501217
Content:
"Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's."--Amazon.com
Content:
After the New York World's Fair -- Greenpoint then & now -- The great pinball prohibition -- East Village then & now -- The Hess Spite Triangle -- Greenwich Village & the West Village then & now -- C.O. Bigelow Apothecary: New York City's oldest pharmacy -- Historic apothecaries then & now -- From horses to electric cars: a history of street cleaning in New York City -- Times Square then & now -- Madame Restell: the despised abortionist of 5th Avenue -- A biased guide to New York City's independent bookstores -- Music venues of the 1970's then & now -- The lost history of Kim's Video -- Cigar stores on Broadway then & now -- Vintage trash & horse bones: the origins of Bottle Beach -- Harlem nightclubs then & now -- Nellie Bly: the intrepid journalist -- Holdout buildings of New York City -- The history of New York City's pneumatic tubes -- Art deco doors of Manhattan -- Made in New York -- Bed-Stuy then & now -- The complicated and unfinished history of Ray's Pizza -- Snack carts, delivery bikes, and food trucks of New York City, 1800's to today -- In the drink: what's really in New York City's tap water -- Brooklyn theaters then & now -- An incomplete* guide to New York City real estate -- Micro-living: real estate's biggest scam -- Williamsburg & Bushwick then & new -- Staten Island's trash trouble -- Staten Island's boat graveyard -- Theaters of Staten Island then & now -- The ambiguous origins of New York City's famous egg cream -- New York City hotel keys of yore -- Carroll Gardens then & now -- A brief history of New York City's subway system -- Historic subway entrances -- Vintage & current subway etiquette ads -- Six types of forced physical contact on a New York City subway -- Secrets of the Astor Place subway station -- The oldest bars in New York City -- Hidden bars of New York City -- New York City bars then & now -- Typhoid Mary: the infectious cook -- Business signs of yore & today -- A truncated history of The Village Voice -- Bronx theaters then & now -- New York City's oldest bakeries still open today -- Bakeries of New York City then & now -- Lizzie Halliday: the forgotten serial killer arsonist -- Neighborhood shopping & dining then & now -- Vanishing New York CIty -- The long walk
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0316501220
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780316501224
Language:
English
Keywords:
New York, NY
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Geschichte
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Comic
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Comic
