The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
Review
“Surely the greatest book ever written about a city.” –David Halberstam”A masterpiece of American reporting. It’s more than the story of a tragic figure or the exploration of the unknown politics of our time. It’s an elegantly written and enthralling work of art.” –Theodore H. White”The [...]
Brooklyn! The Ultimate Guide to New York’s Most Happening Borough, 3rd Edition (Paperback)
From Library Journal
This second edition of the 1991 guide Brooklyn: Where To Go, What To Do, How To Get There (St. Martin’s) provides thoroughly annotated descriptions of attractions, shopping, and especially restaurants in New York’s “most interesting, most human-scaled borough.” Organized by neighborhood, it also catalogs events, [...]
Guide to New York City Landmarks (Paperback)
The official guide to New York’s must-see buildings Yes, it’s a wonderful town, and this book gives you more than 1,200 reasons why. With a host of new landmarks, 80 two-color, easy-to-read maps, and more than 200 photographs, this new edition of the official and only complete guide to New [...]
New York City For Dummies (Dummies Travel) (Paperback)
For Dummies Travel guides are the ultimate user-friendly trip planners, combining the broad appeal and time-tested features of the For Dummies series with up-to-the-minute advice and information from the experts at Frommer’s. Small trim size for use on-the-go Focused coverage of only the [...]
New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine (Paperback)
From Publishers Weekly
In a delightful foreword, Tom Wolfe hits the ground running with a chronicle of New York Magazine’s humble beginnings, as a supplement to The New York Herald Tribune, and its growth, at the hands of fearless editor Clay Felker, to rival the untouchable New Yorker. [...]
The New York Times Crosswords for Your Beach Bag: 75 Easy, Breezy Puzzles (Paperback)
Summer is the time to relax and ease the mind, and that’s what crossword puzzles do best-particularly when they’re easy enough to successfully finish.From the pages of The New York Times, the #1 name in crosswords, comes this new compact collection of solver-friendly puzzles from Monday and Tuesday editions of the newspaper. [...]
Off the Beaten (Subway) Track: New York City’s Best Unusual Attractions (Paperback)
While it may seem that every possible topic about New York City’s attractions has been written about, Off the Beaten (Subway) Track is the first book to focus on the hundreds of off-the-beaten-path destinations in the city. Some are small museums, others are historic places long forgotten, some are [...]