BIBILOGRAPHY

THE ARCHITECTURE OF NEW YORK CITY: HISTORIES AND VIEWS OF IMPORTANT STRUCTURES, SITES AND SYMBOLS by Donald Martin Reynolds

THE BIG OYSTER:  A HISTORY ON A HALF SHELL by Mark Kurlansky

BROADWAY A HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY IN THIRTEEN MILES, by Fran Leadon

EMPIRE CITY NEW YORK THROUGH THE CENTURIES by Kenneth T. Jackson and David S. Dunbar 

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK CITY by Kenneth T. Jackson

THE EPIC OF NEW YORK CITY A NARRATIVE HISTORY by Edward Robb Ellis

A PICKPOCKET’S TALE:  THE UNDERWORLD OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK by Timothy J. Gilfoyle

THE GANGS OF NEW YORK by Herbert Ashbury

THE GAY METROPOLIS, 1940 – 1996 by Charles Kelser

THE GAY MILITANTS HOW GAY LIBERATION BEGAN IN AMERICA, 1969 - 1971 by Donn Teal

GAY NEW YORK: GENDER, URBAN CULTURE, AND THE MAKING OF THE GAY MALE WORLD, 1890 - 1940 by George Chauncey

GOTHAM A HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY TO 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace

GREENWICH VILLAGE CULTURE AND COUNTERCULTURE by Rick Beard and Leslie Cohen Berlowitz (published for the Museum of the City of New York by Rutgers University Press

GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY LANDMARKS by Andrew S. Dolkart

HARLEM ON MY MIND: CULTURAL CAPITAL OF BLACK AMERICA, 1900-1968 by Alton Schoener

HARLEM:  THE FOUR HUNDRED TEAR HISTORY FROM DUTCH VILLAGE TO CAPITAL  OF BLACK AMERICA by Jonathan Gill

THE HISTORICAL ATLAS OF NEW YORK CITY A VISUAL CELEBRATION OF 400 YEARS OF NEW YORK CITY'S HISTORY by Eric Homberger

THE HUDSON A History by Tom Lewis

THE ISLAND AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD:  THE EPIC STORY OF DUTCH MANHATTAN AND THE FORGOTTEN COLONY THAT SHAPED AMERICA, by Russell Shorto 

LOW LIFE:  Drinking, drugging, whoring, murder, corruption, vice and miscellaneous mayhem in old New York

NEW YORK ART DECO A GUIDE TO GOTHAM'S JAZZ AGE ARCHITECTURE by Anthony W. Robins

NEW YORK IN THE 50s by Dan Wakefield

97 ORCHARD STREET:  An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement, by Jane Ziegelman

REPUBLIC OF DREAMS Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910 - 1960 by Ross Wetzsteen

TERRIBLE HONESTY MONGREL MANHATTAN IN THE 1920s by Ann Douglas 

THE UNFINISHED CITY New York and The Metropolitan Idea, by Thomas Bender

THE WOMEN OF THE HOUSE: HOW A COLONIAL SHE-MERCHANT BUILT A MANSION, A FORTUNE, AND A DYNASTY by Jean Zimmerman

THE WORLD TRADE CENTER:  CLASSICS OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE by Anthony W. Robins.  First published in 1987 before 9/11, the book's revised 2011 edition is a "memory of the World Trade Center as it once was.