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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
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4.30 avg rating — 2,872 ratings
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
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4.17 avg rating — 11,664 ratings
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
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4.34 avg rating — 401 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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4.53 avg rating — 30,043 ratings
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Subway: The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System
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4.22 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Around Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village
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3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
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3.96 avg rating — 1,053 ratings
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Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
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3.81 avg rating — 843 ratings
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The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues
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4.13 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State
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3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Williamsburg
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The Copacabana
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
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4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Boss Tweed's New York
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3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Women Who Made New York
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 279 ratings
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The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York
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4.08 avg rating — 553 ratings
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Tweed's New York: Another Look
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Epic of New York City: A Narrative History
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4.07 avg rating — 289 ratings
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The Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock 'n' Roll Glitter Queens Who Revolutionized Culture
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3.96 avg rating — 231 ratings
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An Eye For Others: Dorothy Day, Journalist: 1916-1917
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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New York
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4.20 avg rating — 44,666 ratings
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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
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3.64 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
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A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
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3.85 avg rating — 4,238 ratings
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Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect
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3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
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3.84 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Copa: Jules Podell and the Hottest Club North of Havana
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3.25 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Unstoppable Irish: Songs and Integration of the New York Irish, 1783–1883
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4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917
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3.36 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
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3.90 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Unruly City: London, Paris, and New York in the Age of Revolution
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3.63 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
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4.05 avg rating — 492 ratings
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The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858
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3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years In New York That Changed Music Forever
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3.90 avg rating — 2,693 ratings
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Swing Era New York: The Jazz Photographs of Charles Peterson
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4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
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3.57 avg rating — 4,210 ratings
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The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway
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3.67 avg rating — 1,704 ratings
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Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel
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3.72 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
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All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77
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4.10 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
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4.01 avg rating — 740 ratings
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The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad
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3.51 avg rating — 485 ratings
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The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball
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4.04 avg rating — 1,141 ratings
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
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3.68 avg rating — 972 ratings
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The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
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3.73 avg rating — 1,245 ratings
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Wilde Times: Patricia Wilde, George Balanchine, and the Rise of New York City Ballet
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3.86 avg rating — 36 ratings
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One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
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4.21 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown
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3.57 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Doomed by Cartoon: How Cartoonist Thomas Nast and the New York Times Brought Down Boss Tweed and His Ring of Thieves
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3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings
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New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era
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3.46 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City
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3.33 avg rating — 635 ratings
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The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York
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3.76 avg rating — 598 ratings
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A History of New York in 101 Objects
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3.74 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York
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3.58 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York
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3.92 avg rating — 513 ratings
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Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York
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3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
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4.17 avg rating — 1,353 ratings
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Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
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4.33 avg rating — 1,515 ratings
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Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
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4.21 avg rating — 1,206 ratings
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In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
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4.10 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat
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3.88 avg rating — 206 ratings
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The Districts: Stories of American Justice from the Federal Courts
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4.17 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD
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3.47 avg rating — 129 ratings
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