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Crane your neck at New York’s towering history for too long and you will look like a tourist.  Divide the Big Apple into boroughs and conquer Empire State history book by book. That offers room for proper admiration of Grand Central’s cavernous glory, the neighborly kindness that dug Buffalo out of a blizzard or just a ripping ride at Seabeeze Park. Plot General Herkimer’s winning strategy at the Battle of Oriskany and Vanderbilt’s methodical acquisition of New York rail. From Ellis Island to the Erie Canal, engage with an accessible introduction to New York history with our New York history books. [View all New York books]
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Hell’s Kitchen Trash
Hell’s Kitchen Trash
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Brockport in the Age of Modernization 1866-1916
Brockport in the Age of Modernization 1866-1916
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Garden City
Garden City
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Suffolk County Through Time
Suffolk County Through Time
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Nassau County Through Time
Nassau County Through Time
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The Mineola Fair Through Time
The Mineola Fair Through Time
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Tales of Manhattan Through Time
Tales of Manhattan Through Time
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Abandoned Long Island
Abandoned Long Island
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Troy Through Time
Troy Through Time
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Ogdensburg Through Time
Ogdensburg Through Time
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Hell’s Kitchen Trash

9781634992428

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Hell's Kitchen Trash is a unique book that takes a detailed look at the garbage of this colorful, historic West Side neighborhood--from tiny to massive, appealing to disgusting, and seemingly ordinary to eerily bizarre. The photos in this book are snapshots of Hell's Kitchen life as seen through its refuse. Author Richard Panchyk presents a photographic history of the discards of the area's residents, commuters, and tourists, all of whom coexist and contribute to the diverse landscape of urban refuse, the many tons of trash generated every single day. From forlorn gloves to rejected recliners, and dumped dressers to fallen pizza, Hell's Kitchen Trash presents a gritty look at the wide variety of objects we leave behind, whether intentionally or by accident.
Hell’s Kitchen Trash

Brockport in the Age of Modernization 1866-1916

9781634990547

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Brockport in the Age of Modernization is a case study of the transformation of an American village between 1866, the first year after the Civil War, and 1916, the last year before American entry in World War I. Fifteen activities are studied to show the process through which that transformation took place. They include the arrival of bicycles, automobiles, electricity, telephones, higher education, a consolidated school, concrete sidewalks, hard-surfaced streets, a municipal sewer system, municipal water, the rebuilt Erie Canal, home mail delivery, a fire department, and an intercity trolley. Some came about easily, but others required long, difficult struggles. In no other period was the village so significantly transformed. Many other small towns in America likely underwent much the same process during that period.
Brockport in the Age of Modernization 1866-1916

Garden City

9781684730070

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Garden City: Pictures From a Pandemic documents life in one of Long Island's most popular destinations between February and July of 2020, capturing its dramatic transformation from a shut-down ghost town back to a thriving (but forever changed) locale in more than 200 chronological color photographs. The book's haunting images offer a fascinating journey through the four phases of reopening in New York during a harrowing time in our history.
Garden City

Suffolk County Through Time

9781635000849

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Suffolk County, the second largest county in New York State, is a very diverse place, both geographically and culturally. Home to 1.5 million people, it features waterfront villages on the north and south shores. On its eastern end, it is also a vacation paradise for thousands every summer. Much has changed over time in Suffolk County--new highways have been built, historic buildings and sites have been obliterated, and housing developments and shopping centers of all types and sizes have sprung up. Yet despite all of this "progress," there is still so much of the county's storied past visible. Suffolk's rich farming heritage is evident in much of the county, with numerous roadside farm stands and U-pick locations offering everything from corn to peaches. From Cold Spring Harbor to Orient Point and Montauk, Suffolk County is filled with history and the images in this book capture many important moments and places.
Suffolk County Through Time

The Mineola Fair Through Time

9781634993920

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Agricultural fairs have played an important economic and cultural role in our nation's growth, and nowhere is this more evident than in New York, where the Mineola Fair began during the nineteenth century. The Mineola Fair Through Time traces the colorful history of the fair from its humble beginnings through the bustling days of the early twentieth century to the present, where it proudly continues as the annual Long Island Fair held in Old Bethpage. This book's rare vintage images and little-known facts help document the ever-popular fair as it has adapted to changing times.
The Mineola Fair Through Time

Tales of Manhattan Through Time

9781635000085

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An enriching history that surpasses, at least in lore, any other city in the world, Tales of Manhattan Through Time is an exploration of a utopia of art and architecture, world peacekeepers and the opportune sanctuary for immigrant, plus a community that produces theatrical extravaganzas to celebrating it all. Tales of Manhattan Through Time connects the past with the present via the yellowed archival photos and the closest we have to time travel. Historical, yes; hysterical, but of course. As perhaps the most photographed, via box and brownie, digital and selfie or cinema, silent and sound, captured environs on the planet. The underbelly of the underworld and the fanatical terrorists may be constantly testing the resolve of that Manhattan spirit. But tourist will continue to yearn to join the long term resident or the "born and breads", for there is a pride of tenacious survival that comes with the title "I'm a New Yorker!" Purchased by the Dutch in 1626 reportedly for mere bobbles of shiny jewelry for farmland, the island would eventually be the "jewel of a metropolis called Manhattan, (Manahactanienk), Native American for "place of inebriation" but 300 years later the little village was unstoppable and would intoxicate the world with its wonder to become one of, if not the greatest cities in the world.... ever!
Tales of Manhattan Through Time

Abandoned Long Island

9781634992541

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Long Island is a dynamic place that is steeped in history, but also in progress. Over the centuries, changing times have left many places behind, trapped in a limbo between past and future.

This book is a visual journey that explores everything from the haunting remains of grand old Gold Coast estates, to the remnants of a once-thriving military and industrial presence, to a dead mall awaiting a revival. The abandoned images in this book are frozen moments in time along a path that will either lead to outright demolition, to further decay and decrepitude, or to reuse and rebirth.

Abandoned Long Island

Troy Through Time

9781635000528

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Troy is one of the most historic cities in the United States. Originally the home of the Mohican tribe, the area was settled by the Dutch in the early eighteenth century and the city itself was founded by the Vanderheyden family in 1787. Troy holds claim to being the birthplace of America's Industrial Revolution, and a major manufacturer of iron products during the 1800s.
Troy has earned some distinctive titles in its 230 years of existence, and was referred to as "The Home of Uncle Sam," and "The Collar City." In his latest book, Troy Through Time, local historian Don Rittner looks at the city's rich heritage and with informative captions provides comparative then and now photographs showing the dramatic changes the city has gone through--especially during the past century. Due to the confluence of major waterways and the accompanying water power, industry favored Troy making it one of the wealthiest cities in the United State and the end of the nineteenth century. Troy, therefore, is noted for a wealth of Victorian architecture downtown and elaborate private homes in various neighborhoods. As industries have come and gone and as the street scenes have changed, Rittner takes the reader on a fascinating journey through time, showing how the impact of human activity to this riverside community.
Troy Through Time