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Only in New York
Presenting a spectrum of images, including glittering nightlife, immigrant struggles, crime & police drama, sports triumph & tragedy, scenes in the subway & on the waterfront from the pre-television era, this volume offers a selection of photographs from the pages of 'Look' magazine.
New York 1930
Highly esteemed by architects and New York history enthusiasts, 'New York 1930' focuses on the development of many of the landmark structures and the built environment of New York, including the parks, highways, and entertainment districts.
New York 1960
This is a study of New York's architecture during a period of unprecedented change; a period which offered an exceptionally abundant and varied mix of building types and styles. For the first time, skyscrapers were allowed to rise above the city streets after the Zoning Law of 1961, and large areas of the metropolis were rebuilt, raising issues of urbanism.
The Spiritual Traveler
A guide to sacred sites and sacred spaces in New York City, written from a multi-faith and multicultural point of view. Includes many major historical, cultural and architectural sites, as well as lesser known sites of interest.
Sky-High
Part architectural guidebook and part critique, Sky-High documents the pencil-thin, supertall towers that are transforming New York City's skyline as well as its streets. New York City's penchant for building skyward has reached new heights with its crop of supertall towers—those that rise at least 984 feet above the sidewalk. The city that never sleeps is also the city that never stops building ever higher, from the Woolworth and Chrysler buildings of an earlier race to the top to today's super luxury aeries of 57th Street's Billionaires' Row and the towers of the World Trade complex in Lower Manhattan. Bruce Katz's extraordinary photographs capture a dozen of these self-styled odes to wealth and power, alongside Eric P. Nash's incisive critique documenting the evolution of the skyline, past and present, and the supertalls' transformative effects on the contemporary cityscape. Among the twelve buildings featured are One World Trade Center, Three World Trade Center, 30 Hudson Yards, 35 Hudson Yards, One57, 432 Park Avenue, 53West53, Central Park Tower, and One Vanderbilt.
House of Outrageous Fortune
"Gross turns his gimlet eye on the new-money wonderland that's sprung up on the southwest rim of Central Park. Mixing an absorbing business epic with ... social comedy, Gross creates a dishy exposé of today's wealthiest and most famous. This colorful story recounts the record-setting building's inspired genesis, costly construction, and the flashy international lifestyle it has brought to a once benighted and socially déclassé Manhattan neighborhood"--Dust jacket flap.
New York 1880
This is the fourth volume in architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern's monumental series of documentary studies of New York City architecture and urbanism. The three previous books in the series, New York 1900, New York 1930, and New York 1960, have comprehensively covered the architects and urban planners who defined New York over the course of the twentieth century. In this volume, Stern turns back to 1880 -- the end of the Civil War, the beginning of European modernism -- to trace the earlier history of the city. This dynamic era saw the technological advances and acts of civic and private will that formed the identity of New York City as we know it today. The installation of water, te...
Family History
John Upham (1597-1681) settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts ca. 1635 and later died in Malden, Massachusetts. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, and elsewhere.
Changing Paris
Following the course of the Seine, Philip Trager documents the structures and spaces created with the river as a primary reference point. Sixty-four duotone images reveal a city always changing, always the same. Subjects include the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, the Opera Bastille, the Grande Arche de la Defense, and I. M. Peis pyramid additions to the Louvre. Tragers lens frames the old, the new, and the renovated including famous monuments, beautiful gardens, and the magnificent bridges spanning the Seine. An essay by novelist Diane Johnson is included. Philip Trager makes a Parisian rediscover his own city. Le Journal Francais
Boulevard of Dreams
An enthralling story of the iconic Grand Concourse in the West Bronx Stretching over four miles through the center of the West Bronx, the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, known simply as the Grand Concourse, has gracefully served as silent witness to the changing face of the Bronx, and New York City, for a century. Now, a New York Times editor brings to life the street in all its raucous glory. Designed by a French engineer in the late nineteenth century to echo the elegance and grandeur of the Champs Elysées in Paris, the Concourse was nearly twenty years in the making and celebrates its centennial in November 2009. Over that century it has truly been a boulevard of dreams for various upward...
