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Top 10 fiction books set in new york city best book. To make the list, the book had to be written in the past 100 hundred years and reflect on an era of new york city 2030 years before the book s publication. Censuses mortality schedules in new york from 18501880. Link below is a series of photos of new york mostly manhattan, some well known that you may have seen, some not. Nonsubscribers can, however, use the search engine and see a listing of possible results but no images or further details. In new york state censuses were taken every ten years from 18251875, in 1892, and then again from 19051925. This database is an index to, with corresponding images. Between 1898 and 1914 the bronx was part of new york county but not part of the borough of manhattan. Not all information that is recorded on the actual census is included in the index. It is on this census that the census taker first noted the street and building number of. Moving day was a tradition in new york city dating back to colonial times and lasting until after world war ii. In new york city, changes in the built environment reflected the everincreasing presence of the poor and working classes.

During the 19th century, immigration steadily increased, causing new york citys population to double every decade from 1800 to 1880. Ancestry has part of the 1890 nyc police census, but clearly says it only includes city census records on file in the family history. A hazard of new fortunes william dean howells 1889. They also feature images, including maps, illustrations of buildings, and advertisements. Set in harlem in the mid20s, this novel explores and explodes the lives of wife and husband violet and joe tracewho, like many of the era, made their way.

Ten great books set in new york city pan macmillan. Nonpopulation schedules contained in this database include agriculture, industrymanufacturers, social statistics, and supplemental schedules in general, data recorded on the nonpopulation schedules covered one year exactly beginning and ending on june 1 preceding the year of enumeration. The first mass migration of jews to the united states occurred between roughly 1820 and 1880. This new york classic about a young girl growing up is a superb evocation. The new york city counties of kings, queens, richmond, and new york were established in 1683. Fiction set in turnofthecentury new york city turnofthecentury pre1900 and early 1900s new york city fascinates me.

Also compares wages paid in ireland that that in three american cities new york city, chicago and san francisco for the building trades. Map showing the location of the different steamship, steamboat, and railroad piers general street map showing wards, piers, pier numbers, and streetcar lines. For instance, im obviously sparse on books published before world war ii. New york city, new york online historical directories. My list below reflects both old classics and newer releases, literary fiction and genre. Looking for a delicious meal or an ice cold beer, the white horse tavern is the place to be. A broad range of primary sources critics and writers, architects, planners, city officials brings the time period to life and allows the city to tell its own complex story. Heres my 25 favorite books about new york city history. In the years after 1880, brush electric company built additional power stations at west and bank streets, on elizabeth street, and on washington street. Heres 25 essential historical novels set in new york city. Heres a good starter kit of 25 nyc historical novels from genuine classics to current genre releases that use the past as both an engine and a decoration. Score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.

Inside the squalid tenements of 1890s new york city. Sunday is the vice chair of midatlantic chapter of the abaa and was a keynote speaker at the york antiquarian book seminar in england. See more ideas about nyc, vintage new york and new york city. New york is a city of many names and many guises, from the stately brownstones of brooklyn, to the glass skyscrapers and commerce of manhattan, from the trendy soho cafes to the bright lights of broadway. New york obituaries online obituaries, funeral notices. Census mortality schedules, 18501880 this database contains an index to individuals enumerated in the u. Architecture and urbanism in the gilded age stern, robert a. Photos reveal shocking conditions of tenement slums in. Washington square henry james 1880 a hazard of new fortunes william dean howells 1889 1890s. New york city directories record the names and addresses of city residents, businesses, churches, schools, police stations, courts, and other government offices, as well as the names of individuals associated with those institutions.

Bly, who set out to circumnavigate the entire globe in less than 80 days in order to beat the record of phileas fogg, the fictional protagonist of victorian novelist jules vernes around the world in eighty days, succeeds, closing out her adventure via a crosscountry train trip. Mickle, perhaps the least qualified man to ever serve as the mayor of new york city 22 replies on heres 25 essential historical novels set in new york city. Arc lighting was the citys first form of electric lighting, and replaced the dirty and lowluminance gas lighting that had illuminated new york city streets and homes since the 1830s. Set of 5 full leather volumes from 18801884, bound in black and dark brown leather with raised bands, gilt stamp of city. Map, available online, 1870 to 1879, new york library of. How new york newspapers covered the first labor day september 5, 1882 meet andrew h. Expand your research by checking out the new york online historical newspapers here. A tale of the new york ghetto abraham cahan 1896 twentieth century 1900s. The whole collection will be going online over the coming months. This article provides an incomplete list of fiction books set in new york city.

New york city directory, 188081 nypl digital collections. For most people, american jewish history is the story of immigration to a few major urban centers like new york city in the years between 1880 and 1924. New york vital records genealogy familysearch wiki. Were here to help, so visit us at 1880 broadway in new york, ny to find the perfect new camera, laptop, bluray player, smart lighting or activity tracker today. Great houses of new york, 18801930 urban domestic architecture michael c. My list below reflects both old classics and newer releases.

New york city directories nypl digital collections. Map of the business portion of new york city below madison square. To get a sense of whats essential reading for the new york history neophyte, we asked 11 historians and authors to tell us their favorite books of. New york city in 1860 was thriving for some of the same reasons the city thrives today. New york city directory the new york public library digital collections. The bronx was made a separate borough when the five boroughs were created in 1898, and in 1914 it was made a separate county as well. This impression comes partly from the absence of any visible roofs, and partly from the attenuation of the supports of the buildings which is made possible by the use of cast iron along the most characteristic parts of broadway, with the. Historical fiction set in new york city has never been more popular than it is today. Malcolm burgess, publisher of oxygen books citylit series, selects his favourite reads for the big apple. The citys location was then, and is now, central for the movement of people and freight to and from europe and elsewhere. Over the weekend, i put together this riffle list of my favorite 25 book on the subject of new york city history, published over the last one hundred years ill admit that this list reflects whats on my shelf at the moment and is not in any way yet complete. Ive put together a list based on references in time and again and. New bedford ma city documents 18801884 5 book set, full. The 1870s saw the rapid expansion of hospitals, which were primarily religious and ethnic institutions that had evolved from almshouses.

It doesn t get much better than this two volume set for those of us who are fascinated by. If you live here or have visited, its interesting to look at all the places you have been and how it looked, in some cases, over. Here is some fiction set in new york city between the postcivil war gaslight era and the jazz age of the 1920s. Explore free books, like the victory garden, and more browse now. New york, state censuses, 1880, 1892, 1905 ancestry. But new york is a series of experiments, and every thing which has lived its life and played its part is held to be dead, and is buried, and over it grows a new world. This book has inspired generations of readers and is rightly been tagged as a. Irma and paul milstein division of united states history, local history and genealogy, the new york public library. New york photos 1880s through 1960s new york city forum. Published in 1880 and set in new york, this novel is a story about a young. The worlds cosmopolis postcivil war new york was the nations most modern city. New york public library is digitizing its collection of new york city directories, 1786 through 19223, serving them free through the nypl digital collections portal. On february 1, sometimes known as rent day, landlords would give notice to their tenants what the new rent would be after the end of the quarter, the tenants would spend goodweather days in the early spring searching for new houses and the best deals.

Guide to searching the census by new york city address the earliest census that can be searched by address is the 1870 federal census, 2nd enumeration december 1870 for new york county only. In new york citys history, the city charter has established and modified the structure for planning for the city. Her appraisal skills were recently featured on atlas obscura. The white horse tavern, located in new york citys borough of manhattan at greenwich village, is known for its 1950s and 1960s bohemian culture. Historical fiction novels set in new york city are more popular today than ever before. Well, ancestry and family search supposedly have the 1892 census, but neither contains new york county manhattan. The following year, he expanded that into a book entitled how the other half lives. The first batch184950 through 1923have already been scanned, and the 178618489 directories are right now being scanned.

A history of new york washington irving 1809 1860s. Fiction set in turnofthecentury new york city 61 books. Read expert testimony delivered by dcp officials on march 21, 2019, and accompanying documents. Links to directories at ancestry are to the images themselves, which are browsable. Like the other three volumes, new york 1880 is an indepth presentation of the buildings and plans that transformed new york from a harbor town into a worldclass metropolis. In 1883, according to the real estate record and builders guide, it was the proliferation of castironfronted buildings that gave foreigners. Media in category new york city in the 1880s the following 59 files are in this category, out of 59 total. The 25 best books about new york city history brick underground. New york city in the spring of 1880 is a place alive with wonder and curiosity.