Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City [Original ed.] 1335449361, 9781335449368

New Amsterdam and British New York: The History of New York City as a Colonial Possession before the Revolutionary War

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of colonial New York *Includes a bibliography for further reading “O

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Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City 0231189494, 9780231189491

Fresh Kills―a monumental 2,200-acre site on Staten Island―was once the world’s largest landfill. From 1948 to 2001, it w

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Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future 9780520958302

If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world’s ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, gro

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Illustrated History of the Borough of Queens, New York City

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Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin 9780300240702

A fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity’s changing relat

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Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City 9780231548359

Fresh Kills—a monumental 2,200-acre structure on Staten Island—was once the world’s largest landfill. Martin V. Melosi p

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Working-Class Utopias: A History of Cooperative Housing in New York City 9780691237954

One of the nation’s foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s

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Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City 9780300164091

Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her q

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A History of Public Health in New York City, 1625-1866 [1 ed.] 0871542129, 9780871542120

Traces the development of the sanitary and health problems of New York City from earliest Dutch times to the culmination

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On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City 9780231544245

Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles—and bicyclists—in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’

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