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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,793 ratings — published 1998
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.52 — 27,795 ratings — published 1974
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,251 ratings — published 2004
New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 43,548 ratings — published 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,775 ratings — published 2005
Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,586 ratings — published 2010
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 374 ratings — published 2017
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 523 ratings — published 2013
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 841 ratings — published 2007
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,871 ratings — published 2018
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,858 ratings — published 2016
The Colossus of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,277 ratings — published 2003
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,289 ratings — published 1972
Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.53 — 912 ratings — published 2007
New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 262 ratings — published 1999
The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York City's History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 457 ratings — published 1994
Up in the Old Hotel (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,213 ratings — published 1992
The Gangs of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.57 — 4,100 ratings — published 1927
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,590 ratings — published 1991
Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 247 ratings — published 2002
The Bowery: The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 391 ratings — published
City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.70 — 196 ratings — published 2013
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.46 — 2,111 ratings — published 2006
The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 162 ratings — published 2003
Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 256 ratings — published 2011
Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 557 ratings — published 2009
Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 400 ratings — published 2009
Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.25 — 319 ratings — published 2010
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,208 ratings — published 2005
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,070 ratings — published 1890
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,069 ratings — published 2008
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 325 ratings — published
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 888 ratings — published 2021
Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,321 ratings — published 2017
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 481 ratings — published 1809
The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,380 ratings — published 2017
Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 105 ratings — published 2006
Gangster City: The History of the New York Underworld 1900-1935 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 73 ratings — published 2004
The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City That Arose with It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 201 ratings — published 2010
Lost New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 121 ratings — published 1967
Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,452 ratings — published 2017
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 39,447 ratings — published 2013
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 983 ratings — published 2016
The Bowery Boys: Adventures in Old New York: An Unconventional Exploration of Manhattan's Historic Neighborhoods, Secret Spots and Colorful Characters (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 302 ratings — published 2016
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,189 ratings — published 2010
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods & Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.39 — 1,682 ratings — published 2006
New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 523 ratings — published 2012
Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 415 ratings — published 2014
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 557 ratings — published 1986
Twilight at the World of Tomorrow : Genius, Madness, Murder, and the 1939 World's Fair on the Brink of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as new-york-history)
avg rating 3.66 — 453 ratings — published 2010
“Though [New Yorkers] live by the sea, they take vacations to go somewhere else to be by the sea. Of the many odd things about New Yorkers, there is this: How is it that people living in the world’s greatest port, a city with no neighborhood that is far from a waterfront, a city whose location was chosen because of the sea, where the great cargo ships and tankers, mighty little tugs, yachts, and harbor patrol boats glide by, has lost all connection with the sea, almost forgotten that the sea is there?”
― The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
― The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
“Our orthodox friends need not be told that all merit in this world is comparative; and once for all, we desire to say that where anything which involves qualities or character is asserted, we must be understood to mean "under the circumstances.”
― The Pioneers
― The Pioneers
