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  • BEFORE THE FIRES
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    BEFORE THE FIRES
    MARK NAISON / BOB GUMBS
    Residents of the South Bronx during its promising postwar decades tell their stories in their own words.   In the 1930s, word spread in Harlem that there were spacious apartments for rent in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. Landlords, desperate to avoid foreclosure, began putting signs in windows and placing ads in New York's black newspapers that said "We rent to select co...

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  • FROM A NICKEL TO A TOKEN
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    FROM A NICKEL TO A TOKEN
    ANDREW J. SPARBERG
    A fascinating micro-history of NYC's subway system from LaGuardia's public works achievements in 1940 to the creation of the MTA in 1968.   In 1940, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia realized an ambitious plan to modernize the city's public transit. He eliminated streetcars, demolished old elevated lines, and unified the subway systems. From then on, the IRT, BMT, and IND becam...

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  • A DANCER IN THE REVOLUTION
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    A DANCER IN THE REVOLUTION
    HOWARD EUGENE JOHNSON / WENDY JOHNSON
    A Cotton Club dancer and Communist Party leader shares the story of his life in arts and activism from the Harlem Renaissance through the Civil Rights Era.   Through his extraordinary life, Howard "Stretch" Johnson epitomized the generation of African Americans who broke through boundaries to make the United States more democratic. In this lively and engaging memoir, Johnson tr...

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  • THE RAT THAT GOT AWAY
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    THE RAT THAT GOT AWAY
    ALLEN JONES / MARK NAISON
    One man's "gripping" story of growing up in the South Bronx during an era of upheaval—and overcoming addiction to find success ( Library Journal).   Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time—the 1950s—when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families. Brought up in a two-parent household, wit...

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  • CITY OF GODS
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    CITY OF GODS
    R. SCOTT HANSON
    This study of a New York neighborhood's remarkable religious diversity "deserves a place alongside Robert Orsi's The Madonna of 115th Street" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). Known locally as the "birthplace of American religious freedom," Flushing, Queens, in New York City is now so diverse and densely populated that it's become a microcosm of world religions. City of God...

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  • ANGELS OF MERCY
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    ANGELS OF MERCY
    WILLIAM SERAILE
    William Seraile uncovers the history of the colored orphan asylum, founded in New York City in 1836 as the nation's first orphanage for African American children. It is a remarkable institution that is still in the forefront aiding children. Although no longer an orphanage, in its current incarnation as Harlem-Dowling West Side Center for Children and Family Services it maintai...

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  • CLASSICAL NEW YORK
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    CLASSICAL NEW YORK
    ELIZABETH MACAULAY-LEWIS
    Essays on the historical Greco-Roman influence on the evolving architectural landscape of New York City. During its rise from capital of an upstart nation to global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of New York's art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a survey of diverse reinterpretations of ...

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  • LADY LIBERTY
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    LADY LIBERTY
    JOAN MARANS DIMS
    Magnificent art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue of Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the United States throughout the years. What began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor Édouard René de Laboulaye and attended by, among others, a promising young sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, was the...

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  • THE KINGDOM BEGAN IN PUERTO RICO
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    THE KINGDOM BEGAN IN PUERTO RICO
    ANGEL GARCIA
    "A story of how a priest struggled to live the call of the Second Vatican Council, and . . . worked alongside laypeople for social justice in the Bronx." ― National Catholic Reporter   South Bronx, 1958. Change was coming. It was a unique place and time in history where Father Neil Connolly found his true calling and spiritual awakening.   Set in the context of a changing world...

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  • THE NEIGHBORHOOD MANHATTAN FORGOT
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    THE NEIGHBORHOOD MANHATTAN FORGOT
    MATTHEW SPADY
    Audubon Park's journey from farmland to cityscape The study of Audubon Park's origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban community, an examination of the relationship between people and the land they inhabit. When John James Audubon bought fourteen acres of northern Manhattan farmland in 1841, he set in motion a chain o...

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  • LADY LIBERTY
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    LADY LIBERTY
    JOAN MARANS DIMS
    Magnificent art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue of Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the United States. It began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor Édouard René de Laboulaye and attended by, among others, a promising young sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. It was the extravagant notion ...

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  • THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND HOW IT GOT THAT WAY
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    THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND HOW IT GOT THAT WAY
    COLIN DAVEY / THOMAS A. LESSER
    An extensive history of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, featuring a cast of colorful characters. The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City's most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the world. Since 1869, generations of New Yorkers and tourists of all ages have been educated and entertained...

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  • THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND HOW IT GOT THAT WAY
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    THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND HOW IT GOT THAT WAY
    COLIN DAVEY / THOMAS A. LESSER
    Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and exploration, including the roles of American presidents, New York power brokers, museum presidents, planetarium directors, polar and African explorers, and German rocket scientists. The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York...

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  • BAD FAITH
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    BAD FAITH
    ANDREW FEFFER
    In late summer 1940, as war spread across Europe and as the nation pulled itself out of the Great Depression, an anticommunist hysteria convulsed New York City. Targeting the city's municipal colleges and public schools, the New York state legislature's Rapp-Coudert investigation dragged hundreds of suspects before public and private tribunals to root out a perceived communist ...

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  • BAD FAITH
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    BAD FAITH
    ANDREW FEFFER
    This history of an anticommunist hysteria that swept the 1940s New York City school system "captures the mania of the time, and will shock readers" ( The Times Union). In summer 1940, as war spread across Europe and America pulled itself out of the Great Depression, New York City was suddenly convulsed. Targeting the city's municipal colleges and public schools, the state legis...

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  • BOSS OF BLACK BROOKLYN
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    BOSS OF BLACK BROOKLYN
    RON HOWELL
    The untold story about the struggles and achievements of the first Black person to hold public office in Brooklyn, New York. Bertram L. Baker immigrated to the United States from the Caribbean island of Nevis in 1915. Three decades later, he was elected to the New York state legislature, representing the Bedford Stuyvesant section. A pioneer and a giant, Baker has a story that ...

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  • CLASSICAL NEW YORK
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    CLASSICAL NEW YORK
    ELIZABETH MACAULAY-LEWIS AND MATTHEW M. MCGOWAN
    Essays on the historical Greco-Roman influence on the evolving architectural landscape of New York City. During its rise from capital of an upstart nation to global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of New York's art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a survey of diverse reinterpretations of ...

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  • WHEN IVORY TOWERS WERE BLACK
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    WHEN IVORY TOWERS WERE BLACK
    SHARON EGRETTA SUTTON
    This personal history chronicles the triumph and loss of a 1960s initiative to recruit minority students to Columbia University's School of Architecture. At the intersection of US educational, architectural, and urban history, When Ivory Towers Were Black tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students overcame institutional roadblocks to earn degrees ...

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  • WHEN IVORY TOWERS WERE BLACK
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    WHEN IVORY TOWERS WERE BLACK
    SHARON EGRETTA SUTTON
    This personal history chronicles the triumph and loss of a 1960s initiative to recruit minority students to Columbia University's School of Architecture. At the intersection of US educational, architectural, and urban history, When Ivory Towers Were Black tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students overcame institutional roadblocks to earn degrees ...

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  • CITY OF GODS
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    CITY OF GODS
    R. SCOTT HANSON
    This study of a New York neighborhood's remarkable religious diversity "deserves a place alongside Robert Orsi's The Madonna of 115th Street" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). Known locally as the "birthplace of American religious freedom," Flushing, Queens, in New York City is now so diverse and densely populated that it's become a microcosm of world religions. City of God...

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  • WALKING NEW YORK
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    WALKING NEW YORK
    STEPHEN MILLER
    Walk along with New York's most celebrated writers on a tour of the city that inspired them in this "evolving portrait of New York through the centuries" ( The New York Observer).   ONE OF THE NEW YORK OBSERVER'S TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FALL   It's no wonder that New York has always been a magnet city for writers. Manhattan is one of the most walkable cities in the world. But while ma...

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  • RED APPLE
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    RED APPLE
    PHILLIP DEERY
    The history of what six men endured during the post-World War II Red Scare in New York City. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preser...

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  • RED APPLE
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    RED APPLE
    PHILLIP DEERY
    The history of what six men endured during the post-World War II Red Scare in New York City. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preser...

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  • THE ROUTES NOT TAKEN
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    THE ROUTES NOT TAKEN
    JOSEPH B. RASKIN
    A fascinating journey into the past—and under the ground—that offers "an insightful look at the what-might-have-beens of urban mass transit" ( The New York Times).   From the day it broke ground by City Hall in 1900, it took about four and half years to build New York's first subway line to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again.   The Routes No...

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  • ANGELS OF MERCY
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    ANGELS OF MERCY
    WILLIAM SERAILE
    This history of the nation's first orphanage for African American children, founded in New York City nearly two centuries ago. This book uncovers the history of the Colored Orphan Asylum, founded in 1836. Through three wars, two major financial panics, a devastating fire during the 1863 Draft Riots, several epidemics, waves of racial prejudice, and severely strained budgets, it...

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  • STILL THE SAME HAWK
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    STILL THE SAME HAWK
    JOHN WALDMAN
    This essay collection draws on natural history, urban ecology, and environmental politics to consider New York City's complex relationship to nature.   How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Why does a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the community? What makes the presence of a community garden or an empty lot ripple so differ...

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  • HEARTBEATS IN THE MUCK
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    HEARTBEATS IN THE MUCK
    JOHN WALDMAN
    Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor's environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of its natural environment. Garbage dumping, oil spills, sewage sludge, pesticides, heavy met...

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  • HEARTBEATS IN THE MUCK
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    HEARTBEATS IN THE MUCK
    JOHN WALDMAN
    "Gives the reader a sense of lost New York, of the incredibly rich and biologically diverse ecosystem that once was the lower Hudson River estuary." —Ted Steinberg, author of Gotham Unbound Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor's environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises,...

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  • RAISED BY THE CHURCH
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    RAISED BY THE CHURCH
    EDWARD ROHS / JUDITH ESTRINE
    The true story of a childhood spent in multiple religious institutions in postwar Brooklyn—and what it was like to enter the larger world as an adult.   In 1946, Edward Rohs was left by his unwed parents at the Angel Guardian Home to be raised by the Sisters of Mercy. The Sisters hoped his parents would one day return for him. In time they married and had other children, but Ed...

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  • FIFTH AVENUE FAMOUS
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    FIFTH AVENUE FAMOUS
    SALVATORE BASILE
    "Fascinating . . . not only a history of arguably the most visible Catholic church in the world, but indeed all New York's colorful church music landscape." —Scott Turkington, director, Church Music Association of America Victorian-era divas who were better paid than some corporate chairmen, the boy soprano who grew up to give Bing Crosby a run for his money, music directors wh...

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