The New Yorkers : 31 remarkable people, 400 years, and the untold biography of the world's greatest city

Roberts, Sam, 1947- author.

Book 2022

"From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it"-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9781620409787

Description:

xii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

John Colman: whodunit? The first recorded homicide
Anneke Jan Bogardus: this land is our land
John Browne: practicing what they preached
Isaac Sears: America began in New York
John Jay: the capital of capital
Levi Weeks: the Manhattan well mystery
Christian Harriot: the original road hogs
Jacob Hays: the constant constable
James Gordon Bennett: a penny for his thoughts
David F. Launy: the first broken windows theory
Thomas Downing: a man for all seasonings
John Randel Jr.: the geek who invented gridlock
John Hughes: the bully pulpit
Charles O'Conor: why Irish eyes were smiling
Elizabeth Jennings: the right to ride
The Bradley-Martins: after the ball was over
Charles Dowd: the day of two noons
Andrew H Green: Brooklyn's great mistake
William J. Wilgus: the making of midtown
Rudolph Aronson: "Remember me to Union Square"
Philip A Payton Jr.: Harlem on his mind
Audrey Munson: the limitations of statues
Clara Lemlicj: the little lady who could
Charles F. Murphy: the benevolent boss
Ciro Terranova: the mayor and the mobster
Tex and Jinx: the birth of celebrity
Lillian Edlstein: Moses: "Let my people stay!"
Preston Wilcox: the pedigree of Black power
Jack Maple : The commonsense cop
Carmelia Goffe: they built this city

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2022948556

Control Number:

3212449

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