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In this interesting and wide-ranging book, Elizabeth Blackmar investigates the development of New York City's housing market from colonial times to 1850. She discusses public officials, landowners, builders, renters and tenants, and the interplay among and between these groups as the value of land in the city skyrocketed in the early nineteenth century and made renting the only possibility for most New Yorkers.—American Studies International

Manhattan for Rent, 1785–1850

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In this interesting and wide-ranging book, Elizabeth Blackmar investigates the development of New York City's housing market from colonial times... Read more

    Publisher: Cornell University Press
    Publication Date: 07/11/1991
    ISBN13: 9780801499739, 978-0801499739
    ISBN10: 0801499739

    Number of Pages: 368

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

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    In this interesting and wide-ranging book, Elizabeth Blackmar investigates the development of New York City's housing market from colonial times to 1850. She discusses public officials, landowners, builders, renters and tenants, and the interplay among and between these groups as the value of land in the city skyrocketed in the early nineteenth century and made renting the only possibility for most New Yorkers.—American Studies International

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