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The Big Onion guide to New York City : ten historic tours / Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin ; with a forword by Kenneth T. Jackson.

Title
The Big Onion guide to New York City : ten historic tours / Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin ; with a forword by Kenneth T. Jackson.
Author
Kamil, Seth.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Wakin, Eric.
  • Big Onion Walking Tours (New York, N.Y.)
Description
x, 390 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Guidebooks.
  • History.
  • Tours.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-375) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- 1. Wall Street: The Architecture of Capitalism -- 2. The Lower East Side: Immigrant New York -- 3.Greenwich Village: A Gay and Lesbian Mecca -- 4. Four Squares: Union Square, Stuyvesant Square, Gramercy Park, and Madison Square -- 5. Brooklyn Bridge: A Walk from Brooklyn Heights to City Hall -- 6. Central Park: New York City's Largest Work of Art -- 7. The Upper East Side: Manhattan's "Gold Coast" -- 8. Historic Harlem: African American Capital of the Twentieth Century -- 9. Green-Wood Cemetery: A Garden Cemetery Revisited -- 10. The Other Boroughs: A Driving Tour -- Sources -- About the Contributors -- Index
ISBN
  • 0814747493 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0814747485 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2002000746
OCLC
  • 48817664
  • SCSB-12700811
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library