New York (N.Y.) - Social life and customs
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Up in the Old Hotel
$24.00 Add to cartSaloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old “seafoodetarian” who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades.
- Author: Mitchell, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0679746315
- Language: English
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The Queens Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide
$24.95 Add to cartThe only neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to New York City’s largest borough, from the award-winning author of The New York Nobody Knows
Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City–some six-- Author: Helmreich, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0691166889
- Language: English
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The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up
$30.28 Add to cartThe untold story of how breaking – one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today – began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.
Breaki- Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
- Author: Aprahamian, Serouj Midus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394304
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories
$20.00 Read moreThis reissue of Grace Paley’s classic collection–a finalist for the National Book Award–demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her charact
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Paley, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530289
- Language: English
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What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age
$30.00 Read moreA richly illustrated romp with America’s Gilded Age leisure class–and those angling to join it
Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States’ population doubled, acco- Series: Washington Mews Books
- Author: Tichi, Cecelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1479826855
- Language: English
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That’s So New York: Short (and Very Short) Stories about the Greatest City on Earth
$18.95 Add to cartCharming, poignant, and occasionally salacious, That’s So New York is brimming with little snapshots of humanity that make one thing clear: There’s no place like New York.
New York Times editor and li- Author: Saltzstein, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1797224123
- Language: English
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Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartAn instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Primates of Park Avenue is an “amusing, perceptive and…deliciously evil” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the most secretive and elite tribe–Manha… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Wednesday
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1476762716
- Language: English
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Naked City
$17.99 Add to cartFor Naked City, his first collection, Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours in search of the sensational. Lewd, louche, licentious but always brimming with life (except when br… [more below]
- Author: Weegee, Arthur F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0306812045
- Language: English
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
$27.95 Add to cartThe pandemic lockdown of 2020 launched an unprecedented urban experiment. Traffic disappeared from the streets. Times Square fell silent. And half a million residents fled the most crowded city in Ame
- Author: Moss, Jeremiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393868478
- Language: English
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And the Category Is.: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
$25.95 Read moreA 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction
An Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022” Selection A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture- Author: Tucker, Ricky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0807003484
- Language: English
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Sex and the City
$18.99 Add to cartEnter a world where the sometimes shocking and often hilarious mating habits of the privileged are exposed by a true insider. In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the… [more below]
- Author: Bushnell, Candace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0446673544
- Language: English
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The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room
$18.00 Add to cartThe remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels – from the author of 4 3 2 1: A Novel
The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster’s work “one of the most distinctive niches
- Series: Contemporary American Fiction
- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140131558
- Language: English
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Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto
$10.95 Read moreNo American fiction of the year merits recognition more than this Russian’s stories of Yiddish life. … [Mr. Cahan] is a humorist, and his humor does not spare the sordid and uncouth aspects of the c
- Author: Cahan, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 1970
- ISBN10: 0486224279
- Language: English
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The Age of Innocence
$28.00 Read moreEdith Wharton’s acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman.
A Penguin Vitae Edition Dutiful Newland Archer,- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0143134817
- Language: English
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The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker
$16.95 Read moreFrom 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker‘s “Talk of the Town” department under the pen name “The Long-Winded Lady.” Her unforgettable sketches–prose snapshots of life in small restau… [more below]
- Author: Brennan, Maeve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1619027119
- Language: English
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New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times
$24.00 Add to cartA charmed collection of some of the best essays from the widely-known “City” section of the New York Times
“There are eight million stories in the Naked City.” This famous line from the 1948 film The- Author: Rosenblum, Constance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0814775721
- Language: English
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And the Category Is.: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
$18.95 Add to cartA 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction
An Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022” Selection A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture- Author: Tucker, Ricky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0807007323
- Language: English
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The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
$19.95 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of the Big Apple
As a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called “Last Stop.” They would pick a subway line, ride it to its final destin- Author: Helmreich, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169705
- Language: English
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The Colossus of New York
$17.00 Add to cartIn a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the two time Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartb… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Colson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 1400031249
- Language: English
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Old New York
$19.00 Add to cartFour novellas by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence, brilliantly capturing New York of the 1840s, ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s.
The four short novels in this collection are set in the N- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0020383142
- Language: English
