Downtown
Subtitle: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780300090628
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; History of specific subjects; Urban communities; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Urban Sociology; Sociology; History: American; USA; Social History; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Anthropology - Cultural; United States - 20th Century; Central business districts; Cities and towns; History; United States
First sentence: During the late 1940s and early 1950s my father practiced law in a forty-story skyscraper at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-third Street, a few blocks from Grand Central Station, one of New York City's two great railroad terminals.