A look at the history of one of the most famous spots in America traces it's beginnings as a market area to the V.E. celebrations in 1945, to the yearly New Year's Eve Broadcast. 25,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

Manufacturer: New York Times

Manufacturer: Heritage Books
Written By: Charlotte Megill Hix

Jeff Kisseloff brings together 137 New Yorkers who witnessed daily life in Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II. Dividing the city into ten neighborhoods and devoting a chapter and about a dozen voices to each, Kisseloff offers a brief introduction, then lets the eyewitnesses speak for themselves. We hear a survivor's account of the harrowing Triangle Shirtwaist fire as well as tales of the ...

Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
Written By: Arnold Rosen

Before the next century is out, Americans of African, Asian, and Latin American ancestry will outnumber those of European origin. In the Elmhurst-Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York City, the transition occurred during the 1970s, and the area's two-decade experience of multiracial diversity offers us an early look at the future of urban America. The result of more than a dozen years' work, ...

Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
Written By: Roger Sanjek

This scrupulously revised edition offers a comprehensive introduction to the beauty and wonder of the Catskill mountain region. Combining a wealth of information with abundant illustrations, the book falls into four main sections. The first section deals principally with the geography of the area. Part Two focuses on the region's history, with subsections on Railroad Fever, The Romantic Era, War ...

Manufacturer: Fordham University Press
Written By: Arthur Adams

Manufacturer: Jewish Genealogical Soc
Written By: N. Y.) Jewish Genealogical Society (New York

Manufacturer: Clearfield Co
Written By: John Evjen

The first settlers of Albany, New York were Dutch; in the 18th century, however, Albany claimed an admixture of English and Palatine Germans, the three nationalities together providing the axis on which this genealogical compendium of Albany families rests. Typically, the articles, which are arranged in alphabetical order by family name, give the names of husbands, wives and children and dates ...

Manufacturer: Clearfield Co
Written By: Jonathan Pearson

This is a collection of articles originally published in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record containing primary source materials for Long Island. The records range from censuses and lists of early inhabitants to newspaper notices, wills, deeds, town records, and Bible and family records. Few other works on Long Island offer such a range of materials; hence the value of these source ...

Manufacturer: Clearfield Co
Written By: H. Hoff