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American Passage: The History of Ellis Island
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century
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3.56 avg rating — 648 ratings
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Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City
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3.59 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
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3.96 avg rating — 5,531 ratings
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The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
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4.07 avg rating — 573 ratings
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Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
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4.33 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
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3.96 avg rating — 872 ratings
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Downtown: My Manhattan
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3.99 avg rating — 1,571 ratings
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Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York
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3.91 avg rating — 686 ratings
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Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark
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3.98 avg rating — 125 ratings
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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 First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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3.92 avg rating — 9,261 ratings
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Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
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3.96 avg rating — 1,651 ratings
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The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York
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3.94 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War
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3.80 avg rating — 249 ratings
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The Gangs of New York
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3.57 avg rating — 4,284 ratings
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
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4.26 avg rating — 3,545 ratings
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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
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4.30 avg rating — 2,927 ratings
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
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4.26 avg rating — 19,408 ratings
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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center
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Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America
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3.86 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
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4.22 avg rating — 208,596 ratings
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The Hudson: A History
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3.71 avg rating — 161 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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4.18 avg rating — 12,007 ratings
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Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-loving New York
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3.66 avg rating — 2,064 ratings
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
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4.14 avg rating — 4,211 ratings
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
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4.10 avg rating — 2,690 ratings
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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4.19 avg rating — 20,312 ratings
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Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City
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4.12 avg rating — 577 ratings
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The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
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3.97 avg rating — 1,067 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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3.72 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
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New York: An Illustrated History
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4.47 avg rating — 264 ratings
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
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3.68 avg rating — 1,005 ratings
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New York in the 50s
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3.83 avg rating — 168 ratings
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New York Underground: The Anatomy of a City
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3.94 avg rating — 109 ratings
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A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
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3.76 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars
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3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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4.53 avg rating — 32,125 ratings
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Rise of the New York Skyscraper: 1865-1913
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3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 63,272 ratings
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The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
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3.96 avg rating — 1,535 ratings
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Scenes from the Life of a City: Corruption and Conscience in Old New York
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3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Tiger: The Rise And Fall Of Tammany Hall
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3.90 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
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4.01 avg rating — 7,949 ratings
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Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City
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3.98 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Up in the Old Hotel
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4.33 avg rating — 4,378 ratings
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The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues
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4.13 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan
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3.73 avg rating — 319 ratings
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World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made
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4.14 avg rating — 457 ratings
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You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II
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4.37 avg rating — 51 ratings
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