Please recommend BOOKS about/set in NewYork

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Chango's Fire by Ernesto Quinonez
Brooklyn Was Mine (book of essays by several writers)
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December 15, 2008 09:46AM
The new New York Novel has fallen back in love with New Yorkwinking smiley

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December 15, 2008 05:00PM
how about the Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes?
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March 19, 2009 02:48PM
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YOGI BERRA: Eternal Yankee by Allen Barra
By Bob Ruffolo on March 12th, 2009 at 10:58 pm

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YOGI BERRA: Eternal Yankee by Allen Barra
The first fully comprehensive biography about Yogi Berra was just released this month and I am excited to have received my copy today. Ever since I’ve been a Yankee fan, I’ve always known Yogi was a legend, but of course I only had the chance to see him in his senior years and hear everyone talk about the Yogi-isms. Well this book should answer any questions I may have about the former 3-time MVP and 10-time world champion...



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Re: Please recommend BOOKS about/set in NewYork
April 19, 2009 09:45AM
Mannahatta


On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set foot on the land that would become Manhattan. From the vantage point of today, its difficult to imagine what he saw, but for more than a decade, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson has been working to do just that. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is the astounding result of those efforts, reconstructing, in words and images, the wild island that millions of New Yorkers now call home. By geographically matching an 18th-century map with one of the modern city, examining volumes of historic documents, and collecting and analyzing scientific data, Sanderson recreates the forests of Times Square, the meadows of Harlem, and the wetlands of downtown. His lively text, which guides the reader through this abundant landscape, is accompanied by breathtaking illustrations that transport the reader back in time. Mannahatta is a groundbreaking work published to coincide with New Yorks quadricentennial that gives readers not only a window into the past, but inspiration for the future.


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Re: Please recommend BOOKS about/set in NewYork
April 19, 2009 04:06PM
I just finished a book called Lush Life, about a lower-east-side murder.
It was pretty good!
Re: Please recommend BOOKS about/set in NewYork
July 30, 2009 08:35AM
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After living on the streets of New York for some 13 years, Thomas Wagner wrote the book on homelessness.

Wagner, better known as "Cadillac Man" in Astoria, where he used to live under the viaduct, was honored Wednesday at City Hall for penning the critically acclaimed memoir, "Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Streets."



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Time and Again

From Time to Time

both by Jack Finney
Re: Please recommend BOOKS about/set in NewYork
October 29, 2009 08:09AM
Gotham: a history of New York City to 1898 By Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace


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Synopses & Reviews

A monumental history of New York City, from the earliest Indian tribes to consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe.

In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of New Amsterdam under the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant's despotic regime, Indian wars, slave resistance and revolt, the Revolutionary War and the defeat of Washington's army on Brooklyn Heights, the destructive seven years of British occupation, New York as the nation's first capital, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the Erie Canal and the coming of the railroads, the growth of the city as a port and financial center, the infamous draft riots of the Civil War, the great flood of immigrants, the rise of mass entertainment such as vaudeville and Coney Island, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the birth of the skyscraper. Here too is a cast of thousands — Clement Moore, who saved Greenwich Village from the city's street-grid plan; Herman Melville, who painted disillusioned portraits of city life; and Walt Whitman, who happily celebrated that same life. We meet the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Boss Tweed and his nemesis, cartoonist Thomas Nast; Emma Goldman and Nellie Bly; Jacob Riis and Horace Greeley; police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt; Colonel Waring and his "white angels" (who revolutionized the sanitation department); millionaires John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, August Belmont, and William Randolph Hearst; and hundreds more who left their mark on this great city.

The events and people who crowd these pages guarantee that this is no mere local history. It is in fact a portrait of the heart and soul of America, and a book that will mesmerize everyone interested in the peaks and valleys of American life as found in the greatest city on earth. Gotham is a dazzling read, a fast-paced, brilliant narrative that carries the reader along as it threads hundreds of stories into one great blockbuster of a book.

Review:
"This gigantic volume marvelously conveys the enterprise and enthusiasm that has fuelled the world's most exciting city from its earliest days." The Economist
Review:
"Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 represents the most comprehensive examination to date of the city's history prior to 1900. Indeed, few historians today attempt synthetic and comprehensive interpretations of this magnitude." Timothy J. Gilfoyle, The Atlantic Monthly
Review:
"This book was 20 years in the making, but anyone interested in Americana or urban history will find it worth the wait." Library Journal
Synopsis:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Synopsis:
In this epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning work, Burrows and Wallace have produced a monumental history of New York City--ranging from the Indian tribes that settled the island of Manna-hatta to the consolidation of the five boroughs into New York in 1898. 150 halftones. 15 maps.



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Re: Please recommend BOOKS about/set in NewYork
June 03, 2010 09:14AM
AIA Guide To New York City

The Architect's Cookbook
One Writer's Unexpected Role in Charting the History of New York's Buildings



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Re: Please recommend BOOKS about/set in NewYork
July 28, 2010 02:09PM
There's a good reason why Frank Sinatra crooned about "Autumn in New York." Autumn is the season New Yorkers ache for during the summer, especially after a blistering one, as 2010's has been so far. But thanks to modern marvels like air-conditioning, scorching days do not, except in unusual instances, bring death by heat stroke and exposure. Hot days don't often lead to crisis—except of course in the Con Edison utility's control rooms

In "Hot Time in the Old Town," an engrossing account of this forgotten episode, Edward P. Kohn estimates that 1,300 people died in Manhattan and Brooklyn (the latter was technically not part of New York City at the time) as a result of high temperatures, high humidity and the unforgiving sun.





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Re: Please recommend BOOKS about/set in NewYork
August 12, 2010 05:45AM
here's one I am reading now:
Extremely loud and incredibly close, by Jonathan Safran Foer.
It's very good...about a little boy who lost his father in the world trade center attacks.
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