1989
"The Big Apple at the turn of the century! The hustle and bustle of a teeming metropolis, filled with waves of immigrants, high society, working stiffs and characters galore. Here is the New York of yesteryear, filled with the people and undercurrents which would soon make this the greatest city on earth, a center of business, the arts, communications and commerce.
Here are stories of the neighborhoods, buildings, clubs, businesses, amusements and traditions of a great urban center. Into this maelstrom came thousands of 'newcomers' to make their name and fortune amidst the splendors of Delmonico's and the Metropolitan Opera, amidst the squalor of the gas works and the rough and dangerous street life of Hell's Kitchen.
Yet beyond this was a city of suburban sprawl and real countryside in the outer boroughs; a city which could harbor the greatest benefactors of mankind and the biggest crooks and villans in America. New York was, and is, a city of contrasts, of great wealth and great poverty, of luxurious restaurants and humble beaneries, of sumptuous hotels and seedy flop houses.
In this lavishly illustrated volume, the New York of a century ago comes alive, in all its many guises, for us to marvel at and enjoy" [from the dust jacket]. There are 28 chapters, each one covering a particular facet of New York in the period from 1873 to 1910, many, but not all, of which chapters are reprints of articles from Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Book is in Fine/As New Condition: complete with all illustrations; pages bright, clean, tight, and unmarked.
Dust Jacket is in Very Good Plus Condition: light creasing bottom edge of the spine and along the top of the front section. Blank back section very lightly soiled. Nice Copy!
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