num_pages: 384
description: 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.
language: English
title: Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City
publisher: Free Press