This Was New York!

Language: English

Published by LIM Press, 1969

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LIM Press, Published 1969. Hardcover, 452 pp.; 24 cm; revised and enlarged edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, and portraits. In Very Good condition with an Acceptable+ dust jacket. Tan cloth boards with red metallic lettering on spine, mild edge wear. Binding is tight. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Black and white pictorial dust jacket with historical photographs of New York on front cover has several 1" or less nicks and tears and creasing along edges; light to moderate overall surface wear and mild soiling with some color loss along edges. Not price clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Foreword by Burton B. Turkus, former New York District Attorney. A comprehensive and nostalgic history of New York City in the gaslight era, covering the rise of the city from its Dutch beginnings through the Gilded Age. Marcuse, a lifelong New Yorker and former U.S. Customs Service officer at the Port of New York, draws on intimate knowledge of the city's waterfront and underground history to present a panoramic portrait of old Gotham, its famous and infamous characters, its streets, theaters, saloons, and institutions. Contents: The El Dorado That Was New York; A Checkerboard of Slums; Greenwich Village, a City Within a City; The Longest Street in the World, Broadway; Broadway's Distinguished Department Stores; Broadway's Squares in the "Good Old Days"; New York, the Notorious Sixth Ward, Tammany, and the Lexow Committee; Twenty-Third Street for Fashion; Eden Musee, "The World in Wax," Fifth Avenue and Wealth; The Fabulous Waldorf Astoria and Its "Marvelous Features"; No Man's Land for Squatters, the Sparkling Village of Yorkville, a Park Avenue Apartment of Luxury; Central Park, Eden in the City; The West End, a Rural Vastness, Some Notable Institutions; Central and Morningside Heights; New York's Acropolis; San Juan Hill and White Harlem; The Story of the Statue of Liberty, Castle Garden, the Gateway to Eldorado; New York Colossus, Brooklyn Bridge; The Story of Bloomingdale's.…

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Title
This Was New York!
Author
Maxwell F. Marcuse
Publisher
LIM Press
Publication year
1969
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Acceptable
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Dimensions
24 cm
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