New York is often described as the greatest city in the world. Yet much of the iconic architecture and culture which so defines the city as we know it today fro

New York is often described as the greatest city in the world. Yet much of the iconic architecture and culture which so defines the city as we know it today –

In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 190

Winner of a 2017–2018 New York City Book Award presented by the New York Society Library Of all the world's great cities, perhaps none is so defined by its Ar

The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists, who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics, debated