New York
...And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since : From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress
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(2007). 8vo. 1st edition. INSCRIBED by the author. NF/NF.
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06/19 Event + Book: Central Park: An Anthology
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The purchase of this book grants you admission to the event in the Strand’s Rare Book Room, located on the 3rd floor of our store, at 828 Broadway and 12th Street. There are no tickets for this event. By purchasing this book online your name will automatically be added to a guest list at the door. If ordered online, the book will only be available for pick-up at the event, so please select “in store pick-up” as your shipping method. Payment is required at the time the order is placed on…
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06/19 Event + Gift Card: Central Park: An Anthology
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The purchase of this gift card grants you admission to the event in the Strand’s Rare Book Room, located on the 3rd floor of our store, at 828 Broadway and 12th Street. There are no tickets for this event. By purchasing this gift card online your name will automatically be added to a guest list at the door. The gift card itself will only be available for pick-up at the event, so please select “in store pick-up” as your shipping method. Payment is required at the time the order is placed…
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100 New Yorkers: A Guide to Illustrious Lives and Locations
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A dazzling miscellany of New Yorkers - writers, artists, athletes, actors, politicians, and famed visitors - and the places where their presence continues to resonate. A biographical sketch of each of the one hundred is followed by descriptions of their homes and haunts. Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Diana Vreeland, Diego Rivera, Dawn Powell, Walt Whitman, Tallulah Bankhead, Truman Capote, Weegee, Babe Ruth and Jackson Pollock are only a few of the luminaries that light up these pages. Indexe…
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100 Years of Wall Street
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Decade-by-decade pictorial and eyewitness accounts.
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1000 Things to Do In New York City
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Packed with 1,000 original and inspirational ideas of what to do in the city that never ceases to amaze, this is a book for seen-it-all-before New Yorkers as well as freshly arriving tourists. An indispensable handbook that will never leave you wondering what to do with your free time. It's also a delightful armchair read. The content includes unusual takes on well-known hotspots, legendary New Yorkers' favorite things to do, top views, secret eats and must-visit bars. Suggestions run fro…
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1000 on 42nd Street
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Tibor Kalman, famed designer and consulting art director for the 42nd Street Development Project commissioned the photographer to produce 'a composite picture...in the heart of New York' of the structural and cultural changes taking place. The Selkirk solution was to shoot, in Times Square, head-on, full-frame, in just sixty seconds each, 1,000 people of all shapes, colors, and origins - for a lively & engaging fin-de-siecle look at who we are and where we're going. Illus., 1000 four-colo…
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1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About New York
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The quotes presented here are as diverse as New York itself, and most of them will be new to even the most seasoned reader/ There are a few legendary voices here, like Jimmy Breslin, Langston Hughes, and Joan Didion, but the book opens up new angles. Open any page, and you'll discover something you didn't already know. Arranged in twelve thematic sections - from 'Buildings, Bridges, Tunnels, Sky' to 'The Art of Being a New Yorker.' Selected Works Cited; Index. 346p.
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A visual guidebook to 101 projects over the past ten years embracing innovative architectural design, as opposed to the emphasis on preservation which prevailed through much of the 1990s. This survey illustrates projects that have pushed the architectural envelope, spurred in part by groundbreaking designs by such high-profile architects as Frank Gehry, Santiago Calatrava, and Richard Meier. Projects are listed by location with descriptions, photos and directions. A map guid and index mak…
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102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive inside the Twin Towers
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A 10th-anniversary revised edition of a National Book Award finalist traces the hours following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center to reveal the first-hand experiences of survivors, in a volume that draws on oral reports, e-mails, radio transcripts and cell-phone conversations. Reprint.
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