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    Grand Central Terminal railroads, engineering, and architecture in New York City / by Schlichting, Kurt C.

    Published 2001
    Subjects: “…Grand Central Terminal (New York, N.Y.) History.…”
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    Boulevard of dreams heady times, heartbreak, and hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx / by Rosenblum, Constance

    Published 2009
    “…Grand Concourse (New York, N.Y.) History.…”
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    Making a promised land Harlem in twentieth-century photography and film / by Massood, Paula J., 1965-

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…The era of the new Negro: African American politics and aesthetics in twentieth century Harlem -- African American aesthetics and the city: picturing the Black bourgeoisie in New York -- Heaven and hell in Harlem: urban aesthetics for a renaissance people -- Delinquents in the making: Harlem's representational turn toward "marketable shock" -- Gangster's paradise: drugs and crime in Harlem, from Blaxploitation to New Jack cinema -- Echoes of a renaissance: Harlem's nostalgic turn -- Conclusion: making and re-making a promised land: Harlem's continuing revisions.…”
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    The Tonawanda Senecas' heroic battle against removal conservative activist Indians / by Hauptman, Laurence M.

    Published 2011
    “…Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of New York History.…”
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    The accidental playground Brooklyn waterfront narratives of the undesigned and unplanned / by Campo, Daniel

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1 - Discovering and Engaging a Waterfront -- Chapter 2- The Rise and Fall of Shantytown Skatepark -- Chapter 3- March and Burn: Practice, Performance and Leisure without a Plan -- Chapter 4- Outside Art: Exploring Wildness and Reclamation at the Water's Edge -- Chapter 5- Local Tales: Hanging Out and Observing Life on the Waterfront -- Chapter 6- Residential Life: Hardship and Resiliency on the Waterfront -- Chapter 7- Neighbors Against Garbage: Activism and Uneasy Alliances on the Waterfront -- Chapter 8- Unplanned Postscript: Dogs, Sunsets, Rock Bands and the Governance of a Waterfront Park -- Chapter 9- Planning for the Unplanned.…”
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    House of Refuge : Origins of Juvenile Reform in New York State, 1815-1857 / by Pickett, Robert S.

    Published 1969
    Subjects: “…New York House of Refuge, Randall's Island. 154350…”
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    Ending social promotion without leaving children behind the case of New York City / by McCombs, Jennifer Sloan, 1970-

    Published 2010
    “…Rand Corporation monograph series.…”
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    The Ziegfeld Follies a history in song / by Van der Merwe, Ann Ommen, 1978-

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…The first Follies : 1907 to 1909 -- Constructing the Ziegfeld brand : 1910 to 1914 -- Spectacular successes : 1915 to 1918 -- The glory days : 1919 to 1921 -- Changing times : 1922 to 1925 -- The final Follies: 1927 and 1931.…”
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    "No one helped" : Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the myth of urban apathy / by Gallo, Marcia M.

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…Prologue: A New York story -- Urban villages in the big city -- Hidden in plain sight -- Thirty-eight witnesses -- The metropolitan brand of apathy -- The city responds -- Surviving new city streets -- Challenging the story of urban apathy -- Epilogue: Kitty, fifty years later.…”
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    How New York became American, 1890-1924 by Blake, Angela M.

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Reforming New York's image in the 1890s -- Tourism and New York's image in the 1890s -- Architecture, Americanism, and a "new" New York, 1900-1919 -- New York is not America : immigrants and tourists in post-World War I New York -- Brand New York : making midtown in the 1920s.…”
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