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Best Books about New York
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Up in the Old HotelUp in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.01
Great Stories of Old New York
Downtown: My ManhattanDowntown: My Manhattan by Pete Hamill
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.47
Hamill knows the city.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a CityLadies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City by Jonathan Mahler
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.19
Summer Of Sam and Reggie
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn BridgeThe Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $2.60
Fascinating account of the Brooklyn Bridge
Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900 by Thomas Kessner
Buy used from: $3.94
How New York became the financial power it is.
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New YorkLow Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.20
Great book about the rough side of the city's history. Better than Gangs Of New York.
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New YorkHow the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $3.50
Tenement life
The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American LifeThe Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life by Fred Siegel
Buy new: $20.01 / Used from: $0.01
For Rudy fans only
The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times SquareThe Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square by James Traub
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $4.99
History of the seedy side of Times Square
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkThe Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $6.75
Building the modern city.
The Boys of SummerThe Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.50
Brooklyn Dodgers
Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930 by Gilbert Osofsky
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $2.00
Harlem History up to the Depression
Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964 by Peter Golenbock
Buy used from: $0.75
The Great Yankees
Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and ThereaboutsWork and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts by Charles LeDuff
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.22
real new yorkers
The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay's New York And The Crisis Of LiberalismThe Ungovernable City: John Lindsay's New York And The Crisis Of Liberalism by Vincent Cannato
Buy used from: $0.31
The Lindsay years
The Colossus of New YorkThe Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $4.99
Poetic view
Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New YorkBoss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
Buy new: $14.41 / Used from: $1.44
Tammany Hall
The Westies: Inside New York's Irish MobThe Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob by T. J. English
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.50
Hells Kitchen Crime Saga from the 70's and 80's.