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Book SynopsisWhether you are a tourist or a native New Yorker, you can enjoy this informative walking guide to New York City. The historic tours connect the contemporary city with the snapshots of yesterday, blending social and cultural history with the evolution of different ethnic and cultural communities.
Trade ReviewOne could scarcely find a more informative and engaging guide than this book, distilled from the award-winning tours developed over the last decade by Big Onion Walking Tours...It is a delight, deeply knowledgeable, presented with wit and style. Would that more historians engage the public so well. * New York History,Spring 2002 *
The founders of the acclaimed Big Onion Walking Tours outline 10 historical walks in their home borough, from America's first pencil factory to Bedford-Stuyvesant's beautiful row houses to Coney Island. * San Francisco Chronicle *
Table of Contents1 WALL STREET: The Architecture of Capitalism ? 2 THE LOWER EAST SIDE: Immigrant New York ?? 3 GREENWICH VILLAGE: A Gay and Lesbian History ?? 4 FOUR SQUARES: Union Square, Stuyvesant Square, Gramercy Park, and Madison Square ??? 5 THE 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
