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New York City

(New York)

The Capital of the World? Take a bite and see.

They don't come any bigger than the Big Apple - king of the hill, top of the heap, New York, New York. It's got its fair share of the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses, but it also has world-class museums, big statues, even bigger buildings, outrageous excess, and a whole lot of whooo-wheee!

New York is a densely packed mass of humanity and all this living on top of one another makes the New Yorker a special kind of person. It's hard to put a finger on what makes the place buzz so hard, but the city's hyperactive rush keeps drawing more and more people to it.

Books

	The Encyclopedia of New York City (Kenneth Jackson (ed))

	This heavyweight will test the strength of your bookshelf, but it's indispensable to New York know-it-alls.

	AIA Guide to New York City (The American Institute of Architects)

	Direct from the gurus, this is the classic text for aficionados of New York City's architecture.

	New York: A Guide to the Metropolis (Gerald Wolfe)

	Reveals the city's history through walking tours of its neighbourhoods and architecture.

	The Historical Atlas of New York City (Eric Homberger, Alice Hudson)

	This unsual tome comprehensively maps the city's past.

	The Epic of New York City (Edward Robb Ellis)

	An anecdotal history of New York covering most major events from colonial times to the mid-20th century, especially the late-19th-century corruption of 'Boss' Tweed and his Tammany Hall gang.

	World of Our Fathers (Irving Howe)

	The perfect accompaniment to a trip to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, this is a comprehensive study of the lives of New York's Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the late 19th century.

	The Power Broker (Robert Caro)

	The story of the ruthless civil servant Robert Moses, whose 40 years in power changed the face of New York.

	722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York (Clifton Hood)

	Not only for locomotive buffs, the history of New York's subway system is a fabled and fabulous story.

	WPA Guide to New York City (Federal Writers' Project)

	Published in 1939 as a Depression-era employment project for the city's writers, this volume offers a time-frozen look at a lost metropolis.

	A Drinking Life (Pete Hamill)

	One of New York's most famous newspaper columnists recalls his Irish American Brooklyn childhood.

	The Andy Warhol Diaries (Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (ed))

	A wild and bitchy account of New York clublife in the 1970s.

	Lonesome Traveler (Jack Kerouac)

	Down and out on the streets of New York - Kerouac's self-portrait is legendary.

	Kafka Was All the Rage (Anatole Broyard)

	A bittersweet look at life in Greenwich Village just after WWII by the late book reviewer for the New York Times.

	New York in the Fifties (Dan Wakefield)

	A renowned journalist recalls this stultifying decade.

	Here is New York (EB White)

	The author of Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web treats New Yorkers to an affectionate view of life in the fast lane in 1940s New York.

	Slaves of New York (Tama Janowitz)

	Kooky interrelated short stories from the queen of 80s New York eccentrica.

	Underworld (Don de Lillo)

	De Lillo's all-the-balls-in-the-air masterwork starts at a legendary New York baseball game and goes on to interrogate the nature of America. Worth the hard work.

	Colossus of New York (Colson Whitehead)

	A collection of personal vignettes, meditations and memories of the city from a real New Yorker, capturing a chaotic mix of hope and sadness.