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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An innovative look back through time, Manhattan Maps follows the history of Manhattan Island from its natural formation to the bustling city today. It explores the ways in which nature and people are connected, tracking the people who lived on Manhattan from the Lenape Indians to Dutch settlers hunting for beaver pelts to early Americans and beyond, and how they've (literally) shaped the island (and vice versa). Jen Thermes highlights watershed moments...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Imagine a very different New York City-one whose streets are filled with horses and buggies and people on foot. Now imagine that vehicles that shared the road-block-long freight trains trying to deliver goods to the west-side factories. How did New York in the 1800s solve the problem of trains barreling through busy city streets? They built the High Line. But the High Line's story doesn't end there. Once cars became common, innovative New Yorkers...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A veteran nonfiction storyteller dives deep into the four-hundred-year history of Manhattan to map the island's unexpected intersections. Focusing on the evolution of four streets and a square (Wall Street, 42nd Street, West 4th Street, 125th Street, and Union Square) Marc Aronson explores how new ideas and forms of art evolved from social blending"--Amazon.
5) New York
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, people, and things to see in Manhattan, the heart of the city that is one of the world's most powerful financial centers.
Author
Series
Luxe series (Anna Godbersen) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Rumors fly about the untimely demise of Elizabeth Holland, New York's brightest star. All eyes are now on her sister Diana, New York's most notorious cad, Henry Schoonmaker, the seductive Penelope Hayes and Elizabeth's scheming former maid, Lina Broud. This novel is set in Manhattan, 1899.
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