By 1978, Disco was for Studio 54 and Xenon; Punk and New Wave were south of 14th, and Hip Hop competed with the horns and timbales of Latin Fania for Sound of the Streets. Most of those streets, though, were empty.
New York is a city whose DNA comes from all over the world, a fantastic and unique place belonging to America yet not completely American.
This book is a travel guide of sorts to New York's local legends and best kept secrets, filled with crazy characters, cursed roads, abandoned sites, and bizarre roadside attractions that the author feels reflect the shared modern folklore ...
In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York.
A History of People, Protest, and Politics Steven H. Jaffe. 1 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (left) and Susan B. Anthony 1866–71 Sarony & Co., carte-de-visite albumen print 2 Harriot Stanton Blatch (left) and Rose Schneiderman 1910–11 Unknown ...
New York is the book that Rutherfurd's fans have been waiting for. From the Hardcover edition.
Ranging from whimsical to heartbreaking, these stories have attracted a global following of more than 30 million people across several social media platforms.
... William Paulding 1825–1826 Philip Hone 1826–1827 William Paulding 1827–1829 Walter Bowne 1829–1833 Gideon Lee 1833–1834 Cornelius W. Lawrence 1834-1837 Aaron Clark 1837–1839 Isaac L. Varian 1839–1841 Robert H. Morris 1841-1844 James ...
The master tailors now turned to the courts, encouraged by a recent upstate ruling from Chief Justice Savage of the state supreme court. Declaring trade unions “monopolies of the most odious kind and injurious to trade,” Savage found ...
Delirious New York is also packed with intriguing and fun facts and illustrated with witty watercolors and quirky archival drawings, photographs, postcards, and maps.