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Random Family : Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

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  • ISBN-13: 9780743254434
  • Sales Rank: 8,424
  • Pub. Date: January 2004

In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta ...  More

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Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

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  • ISBN-13: 9780684864181
  • Sales Rank: 33,274
  • Pub. Date: January 1999

The painfully honest autobiography of a black boyhood in the Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s.  More

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740 Park : The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building by Michael Gross

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  • ISBN-13: 9780767917445
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  • Pub. Date: October 2006

From a bestselling author and journalist renowned for his access to the rich and famous comes the epic story of the last great apartment building erected on Manhattan's Gold ...  More

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Only in New York : An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating and Irrepressible City by Sam Roberts, Pete Hamill (Foreword by)

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  • ISBN-13: 9780312387778
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  • Pub. Date: October 2009

No one denies that New York City is unique but what makes it sui generis? Sam Roberts, longtime city reporter, has puzzled over this in print and in his popular New York Times ...  More

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The Gangs of New York : An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury

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  • ISBN-13: 9780307388988
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  • Pub. Date: July 2008

The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as ...  More

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Five Points : The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became The World's Most Notorious Slum by Tyler Anbinder

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  • ISBN-13: 9780452283619
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  • Pub. Date: September 2002

All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. It housed America's most impoverished immigrants-the Irish, Jews, ...  More

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Christmas on Jane Street : A True Story by Billy Romp, Wanda Urbanska, Robbin Gourley (Illustrator)

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  • ISBN-13: 9780061626425
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Every holiday season for ten years, Billy Romp, his wife, and their three young children have spent nearly a month living in a tiny camper and selling Christmas trees on Jane ...  More

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Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville : Excavating Manhattan's Lost Places of Leisure by David Freeland

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  • ISBN-13: 9780814727638
  • Sales Rank: 67,305
  • Pub. Date: August 2009

The slim island on the Hudson River is packed with places of leisure and entertainment, but Manhattan's infamously fast pace of change means that many of these beautifully ...  More

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Brooklyn : A State of Mind by Michael W. Robbins (Editor) , Wendy Palitz (Designed by) , Phillip Lopate (Introduction)

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  • ISBN-13: 9780761116356
  • Sales Rank: 76,580
  • Pub. Date: May 2001

Here is Arthur Miller on Midwood, Mel Brooks on Williamsburg, Spike Lee on Fort Green. David McCullough sees Truman, F. Murray Abraham deconstructs Brooklynese, Jerry Della ...  More

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Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories by Joseph Mitchell

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  • ISBN-13: 9780679746317
  • Sales Rank: 100,937
  • Pub. Date: June 1993

Saloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old seafoodetarian who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive ...  More

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