Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community
God in Chinatown is a study of the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. Since the 1980s, tens of thousands of mostly rural Chinese have migrated from Fuzhou, on China's southeastern coast, to New York's Chinatown.
The story of East New York, once a working-class immigrant neighborhood, it became a largely black and Puerto Rican one, and shows how a series of racially biased policies caused the deterioration of this once flourishing area.
Previously published as An American Metropolis, this book is a punchy, definitive history of New York and has been updated to include new material on the Giuliani administration and the events of September 2001.
Previously published as An American Metropolis, this book is a punchy, definitive history of New York and has been updated to include new material on the Giuliani administration and the events of September 2001.
A cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. This handy reference work takes us from Verrazano's arrival in 1524 into the November 2001 election of a new mayor for the new millennium.
A cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal. This handy reference work takes us from Verrazano's arrival in 1524 into the November 2001 election of a new mayor for the new millennium.
The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York
Published in conjunction with the History of the City of New York Project. ...a valuable case study in the micropolitics of one of the Progressive era's signature projects. (The Wall Street Journal) Illuminating ... (New York magazine)
This witty, informative walking guide includes nine walking tours, plus a 5-borough driving tour, peppered with informative sidebars, illustrations, and photos from the collection at the New-York Historical Society. Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin's tour company, Big Onion Walking Tours conducts more than 1,200 tours of New York City for more than ......
The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City
Spanning three centuries, Craig Wilder's study shows that enslaved Africans provided the institutional foundation upon which African American religious, political and social culture flourished so successfully in New York City.
