Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City
Paperback 384 pages English March 24, 2009
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How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the high-rent district of Park Avenue was once so dangerous it was called "Death Avenue"? This lively and comprehensive guidebook brings New York's fascinating past to vivid life. This narrative history of New York City is the first to offer practical walking tour know-how. Fast-paced but thorough, its bite-size chapters each focus on an event, person, or place of historical significance. Rich in anecdotes and illustrations, it whisks readers from colonial New Amsterdam through Manhattan's past, right up to post-9/11 New York. The book also works as a historical walking tour guide, with fourteen self-guided tours, maps, and step-by-step directions. Easy to carry with you as you explore the city, Inside the Apple allows you to visit the site of every story it tells. This energetic, wide-ranging, and often humorous book covers New York's most important historical moments, but is always anchored in the city of today, and is the perfect guide whether you're a local or a tourist.
- Author:
- Michelle Nevius
- Publisher:
- Free Press
- Publication Date:
- March 24, 2009
- Number of pages:
- 384 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 141658997X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781416589976