New York, N.Y.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Book Committee.

History.

New York (N.Y.)--History--Juvenile literature.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

144 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [American Heritage Pub. Co.; Book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster], [1968]

Summary:

Illustrated articles that deal with individuals, events and locations of New York City and its storied past.

Contents:

The most diverse, eclectic & changeable of cities / by John V. Lindsay

The occupied city / by Corey Ford

On the avenue, Fifth Avenue / by S.C. Burchell

A stroll up the avenue in 1911 / by Henry Hope Reed

The man who invented Dutch New York / by Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.

Al Smith : the unhappy warrior / by William V. Shannon

A girl can't go on laughing all the time / by Anita Loos

An ashcan view of Gotham / by David G. Lowe

Dear friend President Dubinsky / by Gene Smith

Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont / by Lately Thomas

The Yankees / by Bruce Catton

Harlem : the village that became a ghetto / by Martin Duberman

A song of my town / by Duke Ellington

Those glorious Ziegfeld Follies with those glorious Ziegfeld girls / by Tom Prideaux

Stephen Crane's Tenderloin adventure / by Robert S. Gallagher

A New York visitors' book / compiled by Mary Dawn Earley

The stamp of the gridiron / by Anthony Bailey.

Notes:

"An American heritage extra."

Other Format:

Online version: New York, N.Y.

OCLC:

433003