Empire City: New York Through the Centuries6 reviews Columbia University Press, 2005 Before you do anything else, READ THIS BOOK + A Wonderful Collection + An Extraordinary Collection + New York's Biography + leaning into "empire city"             Dreamland: A Novel66 reviews Kevin Baker Harper Perennial, 2002 Intense, vivid, mesmerizing + "It is a story about a great city and a little city and a land of dreams, and always, above all, a story about fire." + Everybody say "cheese" Dreamland brought me into the world of New York at the turn of the 20th century, gritty, hard, cold, and stinking...yet amid all the filth and pain are people with hopes and hearts and dreams, those who struggle to find their place and some sense of joy. The inter-weavings of many POVs within the ...             The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York109 reviews Robert A. Caro Vintage, 1975 Power Reveals + An important book to read + How Old Man Moses Kept Rolling Along + Biography at its very best... + A brief review for a big, important, thorough and ground breaking book.             Paradise Alley : A Novel44 reviews Kevin Baker HarperCollins Publishers, 2002 Hot Times in the Old Town + Its magnificent strength is also its weakness + LIVES THAT WERE LESS THAN PARADISE The second book of Baker's planned trilogy about historical New York City, "Paradise Alley" is set during the infamous 1863 draft riots in NYC. Protest against Lincoln's attempt to draft soldiers into the Union army quickly devolves into a pogrom against free blacks struggling to live as ...             A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)553 reviews Betty Smith Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005 One of the best that I have ever read + Kimberly B. + Could relate well + an endless classic + Masterpiece             Heaven Is a Playground (Second Edition)22 reviews Rick Telander Bison Books, 2004 A Great Story of Spirit, Struggle, and Escape + 2ND Best book on inner N.Y.C. basketball + All the Great Themes of Basketball + This will be a short book review... + As interesting as social commentary as it is about hoops             The Encyclopedia of New York City15 reviews Yale University Press, 1995 Massive NYC Info..Accessible andUnique! + Great book + Great reading! + Very entertaining book. + Fantastic!             Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City50 reviews Jonathan Mahler Picador, 2006 In Search of Heroes + interesting neo-conservative perspective + Gotham Unplugged + Baseball, Riots and Serial Killers... What's Not to Love?             Heaven Is a Playground (Second Edition)22 reviews Rick Telander Bison Books, 2004 A Great Story of Spirit, Struggle, and Escape + 2ND Best book on inner N.Y.C. basketball + All the Great Themes of Basketball + This will be a short book review... + As interesting as social commentary as it is about hoops             The Encyclopedia of New York City15 reviews Yale University Press, 1995 Massive NYC Info..Accessible andUnique! + Great book + Great reading! + Very entertaining book. + Fantastic!             Dreamland: A Novel66 reviews Kevin Baker Harper Perennial, 2002 Intense, vivid, mesmerizing + "It is a story about a great city and a little city and a land of dreams, and always, above all, a story about fire." + Everybody say "cheese" Dreamland brought me into the world of New York at the turn of the 20th century, gritty, hard, cold, and stinking...yet amid all the filth and pain are people with hopes and hearts and dreams, those who struggle to find their place and some sense of joy. The inter-weavings of many POVs within the ...             A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)553 reviews Betty Smith Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005 One of the best that I have ever read + Kimberly B. + Could relate well + an endless classic + Masterpiece             Paradise Alley : A Novel44 reviews Kevin Baker HarperCollins Publishers, 2002 Hot Times in the Old Town + Its magnificent strength is also its weakness + LIVES THAT WERE LESS THAN PARADISE The second book of Baker's planned trilogy about historical New York City, "Paradise Alley" is set during the infamous 1863 draft riots in NYC. Protest against Lincoln's attempt to draft soldiers into the Union army quickly devolves into a pogrom against free blacks struggling to live as ...             Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City50 reviews Jonathan Mahler Picador, 2006 In Search of Heroes + interesting neo-conservative perspective + Gotham Unplugged + Baseball, Riots and Serial Killers... What's Not to Love?             Empire City: New York Through the Centuries6 reviews Columbia University Press, 2005 Before you do anything else, READ THIS BOOK + A Wonderful Collection + An Extraordinary Collection + New York's Biography + leaning into "empire city"             The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York109 reviews Robert A. Caro Vintage, 1975 Power Reveals + An important book to read + How Old Man Moses Kept Rolling Along + Biography at its very best... + A brief review for a big, important, thorough and ground breaking book.