Manhattan for rent, 1785-1850
By: Elizabeth Blackmar.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Rental housing -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Real estate development -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Land tenure -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Landlords -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
Description: In this interesting and wide-ranging book, Elizabeth Blackmar investigates the development of New York City's housing market from colonial times to 1850. She discusses public officials, landowners, builders, renters and tenants, and the interplay among and between these groups as the value of land in the city skyrocketed in the early nineteenth century and made renting the only possibility for most New Yorkers.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [281]-341.
Includes index.