| Author | : Matteo Pericoli |
| Publisher | : Random House Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 20 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0375508686 |
A stunning complement to the author's Manhattan Unfurled captures the Manhattan skyline as viewed from within Central Park, accompanied by a text booklet that shares the author-architect's observations on the city and his creation of a 360-degree sketch of the city. 50,000 first printing.
| Author | : Michael Sorkin |
| Publisher | : North Point Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2013-03-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0865477582 |
Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn't in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, he explains what he sees, what he imagines, what he knows—giving us extraordinary access to the layers of history, the feats of engineering and artistry, and the intense social drama that take place along a simple twenty-minute walk.
| Author | : Becky Cooper |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2013-04-02 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1613124694 |
Armed with hundreds of blank maps she had painstakingly printed by hand, Becky Cooper walked Manhattan from end to end. Along her journey she met police officers, homeless people, fashion models, and senior citizens who had lived in Manhattan all their lives. She asked the strangers to “map their Manhattan” and to mail the personalized maps back to her. Soon, her P.O. box was filled with a cartography of intimate narratives: past loves, lost homes, childhood memories, comical moments, and surprising confessions. A beautifully illustrated, PostSecret-style tribute to New York, Mapping Manhattan includes 75 maps from both anonymous mapmakers and notable New Yorkers, including Man on Wire aerialist Philippe Petit, New York Times wine critic Eric Asimov, Tony award-winning actor Harvey Fierstein, and many more. Praise for Mapping Manhattan: “What an intriguing project.”—The New York Times “A tender cartographic love letter to this timeless city of multiple dimensions, parallel realities, and perpendicular views.” —Brain Pickings “Cooper’s beautiful project linking the lives of New Yorkers is one that will continue to grow.” —Publishers Weekly online
| Author | : Catherine McNeur |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2014-11-03 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0674725093 |
George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History VSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America Hornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society Library James Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic With pigs roaming the streets and cows foraging in the Battery, antebellum Manhattan would have been unrecognizable to inhabitants of today’s sprawling metropolis. Fruits and vegetables came from small market gardens in the city, and manure piled high on streets and docks was gold to nearby farmers. But as Catherine McNeur reveals in this environmental history of Gotham, a battle to control the boundaries between city and country was already being waged, and the winners would take dramatic steps to outlaw New York’s wild side. “[A] fine book which make[s] a real contribution to urban biography.” —Joseph Rykwert, Times Literary Supplement “Tells an odd story in lively prose...The city McNeur depicts in Taming Manhattan is the pestiferous obverse of the belle epoque city of Henry James and Edith Wharton that sits comfortably in many imaginations...[Taming Manhattan] is a smart book that engages in the old fashioned business of trying to harvest lessons for the present from the past.” —Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times
| Author | : Sanna Feirstein |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2001-04 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0814727115 |
New York Historical Society docent Feirstein has written a historically rich guide to New York City that will entertain both New Yorkers and tourists as they walk through the Big Apple. The histories of the city's major neighborhoods, as well as the history of their names divide the book into sections, the remainder of which contains the names of streets, parks, plazas, corners, alleys, and avenues in that neighborhood and the history of each name. The guide is illustrated with bandw photos of New York's illustrious folk. c. Book News Inc.
| Author | : Sarah Morgan |
| Publisher | : HQN Books |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2016-05-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1459294084 |
A NYC events planner gets her big break—with the only guy to break her heart—in the USA Today–bestselling author’s “satisfying, sizzling romance” (All About Romance). Cool, calm, and competent, events planner Paige Walker loves a challenge. After a childhood spent in and out of hospitals, she’s now determined to prove herself—and where better to take the world by storm than Manhattan? But when Paige loses the job she loves, she must face her biggest challenge of all—striking out on her own. Except launching her own events company is nothing compared to hiding her outrageous crush on Jake Romano—her brother’s best friend, New York’s most in-demand date, and the only man to break her heart. When Jake offers Paige’s fledgling company a big opportunity, their still-sizzling chemistry starts giving her sleepless nights. But can she convince the man who trusts no one to take a chance on forever? Sleepless in Manhattan is the first novel in Sarah Morgan’s From Manhattan with Love trilogy.
| Author | : William B. Helmreich |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2018-12-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0691166994 |
A unique walking guide to Manhattan, from the author of The New York Nobody Knows. --Amazon.com.
| Author | : Ellen Levitt |
| Publisher | : Wilderness Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2015-04-20 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0899977642 |
Walking Manhattan by Ellen Levitt is written with many people in mind: the tourists who have never before visited Manhattan as well as those returning to the Big Apple; the residents who want to ramble through parts of Gotham with which they are less familiar; the "I've seen it all" New Yorker who is willing to consult a new source and find "new" sights and sounds that interest them. Readers can pick and choose how and where they investigate Manhattan by consulting this new guide. This guidebook will help readers to appreciate more fully the author's selection of unique things to see and experience throughout Manhattan. It points out the many beautiful and intriguing sights; the history to be learned; the joyful as well as sad aspects of Manhattan life throughout the years. Landmarks and parks, schools and eateries, art and sport, big and bold sites as well as modest and small; Walking Manhattan can introduce you to them all.
