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Bird, Christiane, author.
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City blocks -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
Twenty-third Street (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
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A block in time : a ...
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A block in time : a New York City history at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third street / Christiane Bird.
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Bird, Christiane, author.
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
Subjects
City blocks -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
Twenty-third Street (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
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9781632867421 (hardcover) :
1632867427 (hardcover) :
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xv, 366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Gotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single square block in Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present. This is the story of New York City, told through the prism of one block, bordered by Twenty-Third Street to the south, Twenty-Fourth Street to the north, Fifth Avenue to the east, and Sixth Avenue to the west. It's a story of forest and cement, bird cries and taxi horns, gambling dens and gourmet foods. It's also the story of high life and low life, immigrants and tourists, laborers and aristocrats-from Solomon Pieters, a former slave who was the first owner of the block, to John Randel Jr., the surveyor who laid out Manhattan's famous grid plan, to Anthony "Clubber" Comstock, the notorious police officer of the 1870s who accepted bribes and wielded his club with equal impunity, to Marietta Stevens, whose Sunday night socials and scheming became the stuff of legend. Greed and generosity, guilt and innocence, extravagance and degradation-all have flourished in this one Manhattan block, emblematic of the city as a whole. Welcome to New York, past and present, and hear all the sordid and edifying stories this small patch of land has to tell. Venturing from the opulent halls of the Fifth Avenue Hotel to grimy Sixth Avenue brothels, from the era of the Lenape to that of the Dutch, from the Gilded Age to the early twentieth century, when the block and the city were transformed into something closely resembling the Manhattan we know today-within the confines of this single block resides the panoramic story of the city as a whole"--
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