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Seeking New York - The Stories Behind the Historic Architecture of Manhattan - One Building at a Time (Paperback)
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Seeking New York - The Stories Behind the Historic Architecture of Manhattan - One Building at a Time (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 320
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"If you're looking for yet another photography-led coffee table
showpiece of New York's skyline, look away. NYPD police inspector
Tom Miller's book has - like most of the buildings it explores -
much more substantial foundations." National Geographic Traveller
Based on the popular blog Daytonian in Manhattan, Seeking New York
investigates the back stories of Manhattan's architecture and
monuments. Alongside the expected account of architects, dates and
styles, it reveals the human history of the buildings and statues:
the scandals, the tribulations, the joys and achievements, the
humanity, indeed, of the New Yorkers who lived within these walls.
Meet Dorothy Parker, S.J.Perelman, Talullah Bankhead and Irving
Berlin at the Algonquin Round Table; Maisie Plant, who persuaded
her husband to sell his Fifth Avenue palazzo to Cartier for $100
and a pearl necklace; James and Abby Gibbons, whose Chelsea home
was one of the stations on the Underground Railroad by which
fugitive slaves found their way from the South to Canada. Perhaps
you would rather not meet Jack the Rat, who for a dime would bite
the head off a live mouse (for a quarter he'd do the same to a
rat); or Ivan Poderjay, who left his bride's apartment for their
honeymoon - with her body in a steamer trunk. Here the
ever-changing face of Manhattan is captured through the structures
and their stories.
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