description: Recounts New York City's transformation from a provincial, Victorian town to a bustling city, focusing on the architectural emergence of the apartment building after the Civil War and its influence.
language: English
title: New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City
titlecomplete: New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City (1869-1930)
genres: Nonfiction, History, New York
ratings_count: 19
publisher: Knopf