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Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. ... More

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First published in 1850, "New York by Gas-Light" explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the ... More

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Since 1970, when world-renowned photographer Harvey Stein first turned his discerning eye toward Coney Island, his love affair with this New York ... More

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Learn basic history by visiting communities from our past. Each book is filled with photos and reconstruction artwork covering topics such as food, ... More

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Our lifestyles have changed significantly over time. This series introduces basic history by visiting various communities from our past. Filled with ... More

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A fact- and fun-filled illustrated book celebrates the greatest city in the world and its oldest, continually published daily newspaper: "The New ... More

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A fast-paced and richly textured historical fantasy, this prequel to "The Boneshaker" centers around the seedy underworld of Coney Island, the ... More

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Prominent author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child began writing her "letters" from New York in August 1841 as a response to the troubling realities ... More

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Readers travel back in time to explore life in New York City 100 years ago, learning how rich and poor people dressed, traveled, dined, and ... More

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Mid-century Brooklyn was the home of the Dodgers, stoop-ball and stick-ball, a booming Coney Island amusement scene, and some of the best high ... More

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Like the borough itself, this celebratory chronicle is a symphony of neighborhoods, ethnicities, faiths, and foods. The voices of more than a hundred ... More

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The Carstyle house stood but a few yards back from the brick-paved Millbrook street, and the garden was a very small place, unless measured, as Mrs. ... More

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Diedrich Knickerbocker was created in 1809 by a young Washington Irving, who used the character to narrate his classic satire, A History of New York. ... More

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America and the Americans - in 1833-4 is a polemical, satirical account of Gooch's purported travels in America, focusing primarily on New York City ... More

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An authentic view of the domestic life of privileged New Yorkers in the three decades before the Civil War. It is based on memoirs, diaries, letters, ... More

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This is a second collection of 20 essays serialized in the "New York Clipper" between 1868-69 under the title, "Reminiscences of a Man About Town," ... More

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Life on a Rocky Farm couples Lucas C. Barger s (1866 1939) eye for detail with a folksy, anecdotal style to give us a remarkable and memorable ... More

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