Broadway : a history of New York City in thirteen miles
Item details
- ISBN: 9780393240108
- ISBN: 039324010X
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Physical Description:
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xvi, 512 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Mile 1: Bowling Green to City Hall Park. Soaring things ; Mud and fire ; Promenade ; Fire and progress ; Barnum ; Traffic -- Mile 2: City Hall Park to Houston Street. Across the meadows ; "A glance at New York" ; Millionaires and murderers ; "Broadway is never finished" -- Mile 3: Houston Street to Union Square. The bend ; Grace ; Union ; The Rialto ; Incendiary speech -- Mile 4: Union Square to Herald Square. Ladies' mile ; The "merry chair war" ; The freak building ; The "light cure" -- Mile 5: Herald Square to Columbus Circle. Great White Way ; Eden ; Times Square types ; Broadway ghosts -- Mile 6: Columbus Circle to 79th Street. The Boulevard ; "Down there" ; Chickens on the roof ; Harsenville -- Mile 7: 79th Street to 106th Street. The raven of speculation ; Boomtown ; Hometown -- Mile 8: 106th Street to 122nd Street. Asylum ; Acropolis ; God's skyscrapers -- Mile 9: 122nd Street to 143rd Street. "Honest to goodness slum land" ; Murderville -- Mile 10: 143rd Street to 165th Street. The house on the hill ; Necropolis ; Minnie's land -- Mile 11: 165th Street to 179th Street. The Heights ; Hilltoppers ; The fourth reich ; The bridge ; The cut -- Mile 12: 179th Street to Dyckman Street. Mr. Billings ; Mr. Molenaor ; Mr. Barnard -- Mile 13: Dyckman Street to 228th Street. Life and death in Inwood ; The last farm ; Indian trail ; Where does this road end? |
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