Good Nonfiction about New York City

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However you define a good book, if it's nonfiction and about New York, New York, it's welcome on this list. Please note that fiction and books about other places, if added to this list, may be down-voted without mercy.
1
Un air de New York
de E. B. White
1,034 membres
18 critiques
4.2
3 Members
lilithcat, MikeBriggs, ladyand24
2
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
de David Von Drehle
1,212 membres
34 critiques
3.9
3 Members
lilithcat, kageeh, AnnaClaire
3
Apple of My Eye
de Helene Hanff
341 membres
17 critiques
3.9
3 Members
lilithcat, Chatterbox, ladyand24
4
The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution
de Barnet Schecter
247 membres
2 critiques
3.9
2 Members
AnnaClaire, ladyand24
5
Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis
de Kevin Walsh
202 membres
1 critique
4.2
2 Members
AnnaClaire, ladyand24
6
Republic of Dreams : Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960
de Ross Wetzsteon
172 membres
1 critique
4.1
2 Members
Chatterbox, ladyand24
7
This is New York, Honey!
de Michele Landsberg
19 membres
2 critiques
4.2
2 Members
Chatterbox, ladyand24
8
American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century
de Christine Stansell
204 membres
2 critiques
½ 3.4
2 Members
eromsted, Chatterbox
9
The Rise of New York Port (1815-1860)
de Robert Greenhalgh Albion
42 membres
½ 3.5
2 Members
eromsted, ladyand24
11
Le colosse de New York
de Colson Whitehead
566 membres
11 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
DorsVenabili
12
Gone to New York: Adventures in the City
de Ian Frazier
154 membres
3 critiques
3.8
Member
Chatterbox
13
New York Deco
de Richard Berenholtz
72 membres
4
Member
abbottthomas
14
The Assassination of New York
de Robert Fitch
57 membres
5
Member
eromsted
15
The Book of Mychal: The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge
de Michael Daly
46 membres
2 critiques
½ 4.5
Member
aulsmith
16
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village {revised}
de Samuel R. Delany
527 membres
5 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
aulsmith
17
Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850
de Sean Wilentz
233 membres
1 critique
½ 3.5
Member
eromsted
18
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
de Ann Douglas
383 membres
5 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
Chatterbox
19
Conquering Gotham : a Gilded Age epic : the construction of Penn Station and its tunnels
de Jill Jonnes
333 membres
6 critiques
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
20
Working-Class New York
de Joshua Benjamin Freeman
85 membres
4
Member
eromsted
21
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
de Robert A. Caro
2,912 membres
47 critiques
½ 4.6
Member
eromsted
22
The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror
de Beverly Gage
165 membres
6 critiques
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
23
Tompkins Square Park
de Q. Sakamaki
6 membres
Member
eromsted
25
The Triangle Fire
de Leon Stein
108 membres
1 critique
4.2
Member
AnnaClaire
27
New York in the Thirties
de Berenice Abbott
301 membres
4 critiques
4.1
Member
Chatterbox
28
Burning New York
de James T. Murray
11 membres
4
Member
eromsted
31
A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward
de Alana Newhouse
103 membres
1 critique
Member
eromsted
32
The Works: Anatomy of a City
de Kate Ascher
798 membres
10 critiques
3.9
Member
eromsted
33
From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Present
de Kim Moody
31 membres
1 critique
3.8
Member
eromsted
34
East Side - West Side: Organizing Crime in New York, 1930-50
de Alan A. Block
6 membres
Member
eromsted
35
The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834
de Paul A. Gilje
36 membres
1 critique
½ 4.5
Member
eromsted
38
A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York
de Tony Michels
51 membres
1 critique
Member
eromsted
39
How the Other Half Lives
de Jacob A. Riis
1,420 membres
9 critiques
3.9
Member
eromsted
42
The Tenant movement in New York City, 1904-1984
de Ronald Lawson
5 membres
Member
eromsted
47
Le Monde de nos pères (L'extraordinaire odyssée des Juifs d'Europe de l'Est en Amérique)
de Irving Howe
847 membres
10 critiques
4.1
Member
eromsted
48
Harlem, Negro metropolis
de Claude McKay
21 membres
3
Member
eromsted
49
"Or Does It Explode?": Black Harlem in the Great Depression
de Cheryl Greenberg
27 membres
3
Member
eromsted
50
Old Bowery days : the chronicles of a famous street
de Alvin F Harlow
13 membres
Member
eromsted
52
Sunshine and Shadow in New York
de Matthew Hale Smith
21 membres
Member
eromsted
53
The volcano under the city
de William Osborn] [Stoddard
2 membres
Member
eromsted
54
Lights and shadows of New York life;: Or, The sights and sensations of the great city
de James Dabney McCabe
30 membres
1 critique
½ 4.5
Member
eromsted
56
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
de Jill Lepore
434 membres
5 critiques
3.9
Member
eromsted
57
Old New York in Early Photographs
de Mary Black
173 membres
2 critiques
½ 4.6
Member
eromsted
59
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
de Edwin G. Burrows
1,446 membres
4 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
eromsted
60
La Guardia, a fighter against his times
de Arthur Mann
10 membres
Member
eromsted