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  2. History of New York City - Wikipedia

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    History of New York City. Manhattan in 1873, looking north. The Hudson River is at left. The Brooklyn Bridge across the East River (at right) was built from 1870 to 1883. The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524.

  3. The Iconography of Manhattan Island - Wikipedia

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    The Iconography of Manhattan Island. The Iconography of Manhattan Island is a six volume study of the history of New York City by Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, published between 1915 and 1928 by R. H. Dodd in New York. The work comprehensively records and documents key events of the city's chronology from the 16th to the early 20th centuries.

  4. List of books set in New York City - Wikipedia

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    Umbrella Steps – Julie Goldsmith Gilbert (1972) A Bomb Built in Hell – Andrew Vachss (1973) A Fairytale of New York – J. P. Donleavy (1973) Great Jones Street – Don DeLillo (1973) Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York – Gail Parent (1973) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three – Morton Freedgood (1973) If Beale Street Could Talk ...

  5. History of Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    History of Manhattan. The Castello Plan, a 1660 map of New Amsterdam (the top right corner is roughly north) in Lower Manhattan. New Amsterdam, centered in what eventually became Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it New York. The area of present-day Manhattan was originally part of Lenape territory. [1]

  6. Category:Books about New York City - Wikipedia

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    Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City. A History of New York. Holding the Line. Home Fires (Katz book) House of Outrageous Fortune. How I Came into My Inheritance.

  7. Commissioners' Plan of 1811 - Wikipedia

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    The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan 1811-2011. New York: Museum of the City of New York and Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-15990-6. Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-11634-8. Eldredge, Niles and Horenstein, Sidney (2014).

  8. Morgan Library & Museum - Wikipedia

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    Morgan Library & Museum. /  40.74917°N 73.98139°W  / 40.74917; -73.98139. at 33rd Street. The Morgan Library & Museum (originally known as the Pierpont Morgan Library; colloquially the Morgan) is a museum and research library at 225 Madison Avenue in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, U.S. Completed in 1906 as ...

  9. Argosy Book Store - Wikipedia

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    The Argosy Book Store is New York City 's oldest independent bookstore. Located at 116 East 59th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues in Midtown Manhattan, it occupies an entire six-story townhouse with various sales floors specializing in first editions, Americana, leather bindings, antique maps and prints, and autographs. [1]

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