Inside the Apple
Subtitle: a streetwise history of New York City
By: by Michelle and James Nevius.
Contributors: Nevius, James.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781416589976
Subjects: Historic sites -- New York (State) -- New York -- Guidebooks; Walking -- New York (State) -- New York -- Guidebooks; New York (N.Y.) -- History; New York (N.Y.) -- Tours
Genres: Guidebooks.; Tours.
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."--Back cover.