This rich selection of maps, drawings and charts offers a new perspective on the growth of New York, and provides a vivid history of the city.

Encompassing more than 350 color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations, including ten foldouts, a historical overview of New York City's architectur

Discover venerable dining rooms, gas-lit taverns, and old-world apothecaries and tobacconists from the New York of George Washington, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain,

"As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its fin

To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, w