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The Bowery
$24.99 Add to cartThe Bowery is New York City’s oldest street. Stretching 1.25 miles from Chatham Square to Cooper Square, it was a Native American footpath, Dutch wagon road, and the triumphal march route as Washingto
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Mulkins, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 146716206X
- Language: English
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Fabulous Fountains of New York
$44.95 Add to cartA stunning exploration of New York’s most enchanting fountains
New York City’s fountains are more than just decorative features–they are historical landmarks, cultural icons, and dynamic works of ar- Author: Azzarone, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 153151183X
- Language: English
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Ten Thousand Central Parks: A Climate-Change Parable
$34.95 Add to cartA visionary look at Central Park’s creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate action
Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes,- Author: Brown Morris, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1531511643
- Language: English
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Philadelphia: A Walk Through History
$17.00 Add to cart- Author: Pompilio, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1681066106
- Language: English
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Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945
$45.00 Add to cart- Author: Wallace, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0199384517
- Language: English
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The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
$29.95 Add to cartA history of New York’s Yiddish popular culture from 1880 to the present.
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of New York’s history of Yiddish popular
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Sapoznik, Henry H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855801736
- Language: English
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Murder in Old Forge, Pennsylvania: The Tragic Death of the Ziemba Children
$24.99 Add to cartOn July 26, 1981, eight-year-old Cheryl Ziemba and her four-year-old brother, Christopher, disappeared from their backyard in Old Forge, Pennsylvania.
Within hours, hundreds of neighbors, police and f
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Kincaid, Brian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1467157155
- Language: English
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Almanac: A Murmuration
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the sanctuary of her one-hundred-and-twenty-acre horse farm in the upper Susquehanna River Valley, essayist and poet Christine Gelineau takes stock of what it means to care for a farm, a nation,
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Gelineau, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855801798
- Language: English
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Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis
$22.99 Add to cart“Instantly my favorite guide to the city. Walsh has a phenomenal eye and an almost fanatical attention to detail.” — Luc Sante, author of Low Life
An urban exploration of the oddities and artifacts of
- Author: Walsh, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0060754001
- Language: English
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Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and S?ances in Lily Dale
$28.95 Add to cartIn Spiritualism’s Place, four friends and scholars who produce the acclaimed Dig: A History Podcast, share their curiosity and enthusiasm for uncovering stories from the past as they explore the histo
- Author: Earls, Averill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501777262
- Language: English
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Wildsam Field Guides: The Hampons & North Fork
$24.00 Add to cartWildsam Field Guides: The Hamptons & North Fork leads travelers through the towns, beaches and farm stands of Long Island’s East End with guidance from trusted locals. Contributors include poet and fa… [more below]
- Series: American City Guide
- Author: Bruce, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1467199702
- Language: English
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Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk
$30.00 Read more“Create a More Positive Rehoboth” was a decades-long goal for progress and inclusiveness in a charming beach town in southern Delaware. Rehoboth, which was established in the 19th century as a Methodi… [more below]
- Author: Sears, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: May 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1439923809
- Language: English
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Foggy Bottom and the West End
$21.99 Read moreBeginning as a small town on the banks of the Potomac, the neighborhoods of Foggy Bottom and the West End grew into the capital’s industrial center at the head of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with f… [more below]
- Author: Gilmore, Matthew B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 11 2010
- ISBN10: 1596293322
- Language: English
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The Illustrated Mark Twain and the Buffalo Express: 10 Stories and over a Century of Sketches
$26.95 Add to cartRanging from his first impression of Niagara Falls to the deteriorating condition of a cemetery in his Buffalo neighborhood, to more satirical statements on the state of American journalism, Twain’s B
- Author: Reigstad, Thomas J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1493076035
- Language: English
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The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region
$30.00 Add to cartAll aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor.
Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be- Author: Alff, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0226822834
- Language: English
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Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History
$34.95 Read moreThe entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world’s iconic urban green spaces
From deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know
- Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
- Author: Biehler, Dawn Day
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 295753196
- Language: English
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Lost Columbia County, New York
$24.99 Read moreColumbia County Past Revealed
People have been drawn to Columbia County, New York, for years. Beyond the region’s picturesque streams, lakes and mountains, the county is filled with the magic of histor
- Series: Lost
- Author: Marchese, Allison Guertin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158003
- Language: English
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Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener
$18.99 Add to cart“Literary Legend” (New York) Gay Talese retraces his pioneering career, marked by his fascination with the world’s hidden characters.
In the concluding act of this “incomparable” (Air Mail) capstone bo
- Author: Talese, Gay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063350645
- Language: English
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Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City
$40.00 Add to cart“Building ghosts” are the idiosyncratic remnants or imprints of demolished buildings, left behind on the sides of neighboring structures. Mostly seen in older Northeastern cities with rowhomes or part… [more below]
- Author: Lester, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1439924090
- Language: English
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Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook
$20.00 Add to cartPart of Belt’s Neighborhood Guidebook Series, a probing look at the Steel City’s diverse locales.
Pittsburgh is made up of more than ninety different neighborhoods. And while The Pittsburgh Neighborhoo
- Series: Belt Neighborhood Guidebooks
- Author: Gwin, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1948742713
- Language: English
