The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York 0394720245

The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York 3083105029

Includes index

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Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing 9780801459979

From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the world's largest housing coope

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Rockefeller of New York: Executive Power in the Statehouse 9781501733819

They offer a compelling, rounded view of a controversial chief executive and a vigorous account of the ongoing, dynamic

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The Prince: Andrew Cuomo, Coronavirus, and the Fall of New York 9781682192542, 9781682194102

Governor Andrew Cuomo, scion of Mario Cuomo, is today as famous as his father, also a governor of New York state for thr

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Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy 9781501759888

The practical effect and political cost of that complicated trade-off is at the heart of Soyer's Left in the Center

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Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century 9780812202601

In Skyscraper, Benjamin Flowers explores the role of culture and ideology in shaping the construction of skyscrapers and

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New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times 9780814769355

The City Section of The New York Times shows us "real New Yorkers". “There are eight million stories in the

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Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century 9780812241846, 2009004272

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A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics 9780691228204

In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the debt-

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More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of The New York Times 9780814769027

What do Francine Prose, Suketu Mehta, and Edwidge Danticat have in common? Each suffers from an incurable love affair wi

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