Downtown
Subtitle: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: April 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780300098273
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Social History; Urban & municipal planning; Urban communities; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Art; Sociology; History: World; USA; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; General
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.