num_pages: 384
description: Forgotten New York is your passport to more than 300 years of history, architecture, and memories hidden in plain sight.Houses dating to the first Dutch settlers on Staten Island; yellow brick roads in Brooklyn; clocks embedded in the sidewalk in Manhattan; bishop's crook lampposts in Queens; and a white elephant in the Bronx—this is New York and this is your guide to seeing it all. Forgotten New York covers all five boroughs with easy-to-use maps and suggested routes to hundreds of out-of-the way places, antiquated monuments, streets to nowhere, and buildings from a time lost.Forgotten New York features:Quiet PlacesTruly ForgottenHistory Happened HereWhat Is This Thing?Forgotten PeopleAnd so much more
language: English
title: Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis
titlecomplete: Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis
genres: Architecture, New York, Travel, Cities, American History, Nonfiction, History, Research
ratings_count: 237
publisher: Collins Reference