Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City

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How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the high-rent district of Park Avenue was once so dangerous it was called "Death Avenue"? Lively and comprehensive, Inside the Apple brings to life New York's fascinating past.

This narrative history of New York City is the first to offer practical walking tour know-how. Fast-paced but thorough, its bite-size chapters each focus on an ...

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Overview

How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the high-rent district of Park Avenue was once so dangerous it was called "Death Avenue"? Lively and comprehensive, Inside the Apple brings to life New York's fascinating past.

This narrative history of New York City is the first to offer practical walking tour know-how. Fast-paced but thorough, its bite-size chapters each focus on an event, person, or place of historical significance. Rich in anecdotes and illustrations, it whisks readers from colonial New Amsterdam through Manhattan's past, right up to post-9/11 New York. The book also works as a historical walking-tour guide, with 14 self-guided tours, maps, and step-by-step directions. Easy to carry with you as you explore the city, Inside the Apple allows you to visit the site of every story it tells. This energetic, wide-ranging, and often humorous book covers New York's most important historical moments, but is always anchored in the city of today.

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"I was born in New York and lived there for years, but I had no idea what I was missing until I picked up Inside the Apple. It's jammed with fascinating pieces of history and great nuggets of trivia. I can't wait to walk Manhattan again with this book in hand." — Noah D. Oppenheim, coauthor of the bestselling The Intellectual Devotional™ series

"As a longtime New Yorker, I never tire of walking the streets and uncovering something new about the world's most fascinating city, where every street has a story to tell. Inside the Apple is a gem of a book, filled with nuggets about New York's extraordinary past, from the sidewalks up. Whether you are a tourist exploring for the very first time or a seasoned walker in the city, this book is a must." — Kenneth C. Davis, author of the bestsellers America's Hidden History and Don't Know Much About® History

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Going chronologically, this covers New York City's establishment and growth from port to immigrant destination to preeminent city-state. Discreet entries cover single events (e.g., the opening of the World Trade Center), people like native son Teddy Roosevelt, and places (e.g., the 1811 version of city hall). While these entries are well written, readable, and interesting in and of themselves, the book's final section of 14 walking tours brings these abstractions alive. Each location has its degree of awesome, whether it's mostly historical, like the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, where the gay liberation movement got kick-started; mostly tragic, like the former site of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory-cum-sweatshop at the corner of Washington and Mercer, where a horrific fire killed 148 women in 1911; or mostly fun, like Chumley's Speakeasy on Bedford Street. Our tour wound kinda near where John Gotti used to hang out, the Ravenite Social Club on Mulberry Street (I have no comment as I don't want to piss of the editors' union). Douglas Lord, "Books for Dudes," Booksmack! 10/7/10
Publishers Weekly
Most of this guide book is devoted to an exhaustive catalog of New York City history, beginning with glaciers' impact on the geography of Central Park and ending (161 chapters later) with the aftermath of 9/11. Not for cover-to-cover reading, this guide from a tour-guide/entrepreneur husband-and-wife team is best approached from behind, with the 14 walking tours that cap the volume; each highlighted site references the relevant chapters preceding. Considering New York's dense history, these tours offer something for everyone: the Greenwich Village tour alone encompasses the Stonewall Inn, considered the birthplace of gay rights; Jefferson Market Courthouse, the nation's first night court; and the house where Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women. Not even natives know this much; even if they do recall the late-19th and early-20th century tenement laws meant to improve living conditions (chapter 84), they'll probably be surprised to learn where the city's first tenement is located (chapter 32). From the 1765 Bowling Green Park protest of the Stamp Act to the 1980 murder of John Lennon outside the Dakota Apartments, this extremely thorough sidewalk-level guide is rich with 20 years of combined tour experience. Photos and maps.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781416589976
  • Publisher: Free Press
  • Publication date: 3/24/2009
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 384
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 1.10 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 27, 2009

    A great new way to see New York!

    A compelling read from beginning (pre-Henry Hudson) to end (the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack), "Inside the Apple" is a splendid book. Each of the 182 chapters is focused on a specific place, which quite literally grounds the narrative in the here and now. If you are at home, you can read the book from cover to cover and it provides an excellent overview of the city's history; if you are in New York, you can grab it and go visit the places. It doesn't need to be read in order, you can just find yourself walking down the street, look up a place in the index, and read a page or two about its history and significance. Highly recommended.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 13, 2012

    Very rich in detail!

    Out of all the other New York City history books I have read, this one tops out all of them by a ton! It starts at the beggining of the glacier retreat and ends at the aftermath of September 11.(some 182 chapters later) It is rich in detail and is very good!!

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