Tenements, towers & trash : an unconventional illustrated history of New York City

Wertz, Julia, author, illustrator.

First edition.

Book

New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2017.

©2017

282 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 32 cm

"Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, side-splittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's"-- Amazon.com.

Wertz, Julia.

Business enterprises -- New York (State) -- New York -- Pictorial works.

New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Pictorial works.

New York (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.

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Tenements, towers and trash

Unconventional illustrated history of New York City

After the New York World's Fair -- Greenpoint then & now -- The great pinball prohibition -- East Village then & now -- The Hess Spite Triangle -- Greenwich Village & the West Village then & now -- C.O. Bigelow Apothecary : New York City's oldest pharmacy -- Historic apothecaries then & now -- From horses to electric cars : a history of street cleaning in New York City -- Times Square then & now -- Madame Restell : the despised abortionist of 5th Avenue -- A biased guide to New York City's independent bookstores -- Music venues of the 1970's then & now -- The lost history of Kim's Video -- Cigar stores on Broadway then & now -- Vintage trash & horse bones : the origins of Bottle Beach -- Harlem nightclubs then & now -- Nellie Bly : the intrepid journalist -- Holdout buildings of New York City -- The history of New York City's pneumatic tubes -- Art deco doors of Manhattan -- Made in New York -- Bed-Stuy then & now -- The complicated and unfinished history of Ray's Pizza -- Snack carts, delivery bikes, and food trucks of New York City, 1800's to today -- In the drink : what's really in New York City's tap water -- Brooklyn theaters then & now -- An incomplete guide to New York real estate -- Micro-living : real estate's biggest scam -- Williamsburg & Bushwick then & new -- Staten Island's trash trouble -- Staten Island's boat graveyard -- Theaters of Staten Island then & now -- The ambiguous origins of New York City's famous egg cream -- New York City hotel keys of yore -- Carroll Gardens then & now -- A brief history of New York City's subway system -- Historic subway entrances -- Vintage & current subway etiquette ads -- Six types of forced physical contact on a New York City subway -- Secrets of the Astor Place subway station -- The oldest bars in New York City -- Hidden bars of New York City -- New York City bars then & now -- Typhoid Mary : the infectious cook -- Business signs of yore & today -- A truncated history of The Village Voice -- Bronx theaters then & now -- New York City's oldest bakeries still open today -- Lizzie Halliday : the forgotten serial killer arsonist -- Neighborhood shopping & dining then & now -- Vanishing New York CIty -- The long walk.

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