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; 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 No matter if you are a lifelong New Yorker, recent resident, or weekend visitor, this magical book is the only guide to true New York.
language: English
title: Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis
titlecomplete: Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis
genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Research, History, Cities, New York, American History, Architecture
ratings_count: 238
publisher: Harper