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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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- 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