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South Bronx Rising

Jill Jonnes, Nilka Martell

Jill Jonnes

Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires,...

ISBN: 9781531501211

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The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico

Angel Garcia

How the South Bronx and Puerto Rican migration defined Fr. Neil Connolly’s priesthood as he learned to both serve and be part of his communitySouth Bronx, 1958. Change was...

ISBN: 9781531501914

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Heaven on the Hudson

Stephanie Azzarone, Robert F. Rodriguez

Stephanie Azzarone

A colorful tale of a singular New York City neighborhood and the personalities who make it specialTo outsiders or East Siders, Riverside Park and Riverside Drive may not have the...

ISBN: 9781531501006

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Antiquity in Gotham

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis

The first detailed study of “Neo-Antique” architecture applies an archaeological lens to the study of New York City’s structuresSince the city’s inception, New Yorkers have...

ISBN: 9781531502423

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Cross Bronx

Peter Quinn, Dan Barry

Peter Quinn

In his inimitable prose, master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-league politics and corporate hardball.Cross...

ISBN: 9781531500948

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Boy with the Bullhorn

Ron Goldberg

A coming-of-age memoir of life on the front lines of the AIDS crisis with ACT UP New York.From the moment Ron Goldberg stumbled into his first ACT UP meeting in June 1987,...

ISBN: 9781531500979

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The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Matthew Spady

Audubon Park’s journey from farmland to cityscapeThe study of Audubon Park’s origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban...

ISBN: 9781531501921

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Africans in Harlem

Boukary Sawadogo

The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African influence in Harlem.From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Harlem was the intellectual and cultural center...

ISBN: 9780823299126

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From Factories to Palaces

Jean Arrington, Cynthia Skeffington LaValle, Peg Breen

Jean Arrington

Edited by Cynthia Skeffington LaValle

How a prolific yet little-known architect changed the face of education in New York CityAs Superintendent of School Buildings from 1891 to 1922, architect Charles B. J. Snyder elevated...

ISBN: 9780823299164

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Our Laundry, Our Town

Alvin Eng

With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City.Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured...

ISBN: 9781531500368

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EMPIRE STATE EDITIONS

South Bronx Rising

The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico

Heaven on the Hudson

Antiquity in Gotham

Cross Bronx

Boy with the Bullhorn

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Africans in Harlem

From Factories to Palaces

Our Laundry, Our Town

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