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Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis

by Kevin Walsh

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Forgotten New York is your passport to more than 300 years of history, architecture, and memories hidden in plain sight. Houses dating to the first Dutch settlers on Staten Island; yellow brick roads in Brooklyn; clocks embedded in the sidewalk in Manhattan; bishop's crook lampposts in Queens; and a white elephant in the Bronx--this is New York and this is your guide to seeing it all. Forgotten New York covers all five boroughs with easy-to-use maps and suggested routes to hundreds of show more out-of-the way places, antiquated monuments, streets to nowhere, and buildings from a time lost. Forgotten New York features: Quiet Places Truly Forgotten History Happened Here What Is This Thing? Forgotten People And so much more show less

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Original publication date: 2006
Important places: New York, New York, USA

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Languages: English
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Published: 2006
Genres: Nonfiction, Travel, General Nonfiction, Art & Design
DDC/MDS: 974.710440222
LCC: F128.37 .W35

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