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Boroughs of New York

The Bronx

“Life in the Bronx” Series

Neighborhoods

Brooklyn

Neighborhoods

There are several Brooklyn neighborhood guides available from the Brooklyn Historical Society including:

Park Slope Neighborhood & Architectural History Guide
by Francis Morrone

Manhattan

Park Avenue: Street of Dreams
by James Trager

For luxury apartment houses, Park Avenue has few rivals. In this interesting historical and architectural survey of the famed thoroughfare, due attention is paid to the mystique–”more a state of mind”–of the prestigious address. Trager ( West of Fifth ) takes a reader on a tour of the avenue, noting its origin as a legacy of Commodore Vanderbilt and his railroad in the 1850s. Past and present grandeur and the great building boom of the 1920s that produced mansions for the robber barons are noted in a block-by-block travelogue studded with anecdotes of the prominent denizens of the neighborhood. The avenue’s less affluent extremities and commercial intrusions are noted, but it is the opulent residential enclave that provides spice. —Reed Business Information, Inc.

On Fifth Avenue: Then and Now
by Ronda Wist

A nostalgic tour of the area and its magnificent architecture, complete with rare and vintage photographs, On Fifth Avenue: Then and Now is a book that evokes a long-gone, but not forgotten era in the history of New York.