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Author Wertz, Julia, author, illustrator.

Title Tenements, towers & trash : an unconventional illustrated history of New York City / Julia Wertz.

Publication Info. New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, [2017]
©2017

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 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Department  GRAPHIC 974.71 WERTZ    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  OVR 974.71 WERTZ    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  GN WERTZ    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  GRAPHIC NOVEL WERTZ    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  GRAPHIC NOVEL Q WERTZ    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  GN TENEMENTS    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Oversize Shelving  F974.71 WERTZ    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch – Adult Graphic Novels  GRAPHIC NOVEL WERTZ    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 282 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 32 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents After the New York World's Fair -- Greenpoint then & now -- The great pinball prohibition -- East Village then & now -- The Hess Spite Triangle -- Greenwich Village & the West Village then & now -- C.O. Bigelow Apothecary: New York City's oldest pharmacy -- Historic apothecaries then & now -- From horses to electric cars: a history of street cleaning in New York City -- Times Square then & now -- Madame Restell: the despised abortionist of 5th Avenue -- A biased guide to New York City's independent bookstores ; Music venues of the 1970's then & now -- The lost history of Kim's Video -- Cigar stores on Broadway then & now -- Vintage trash & horse bones: the origins of Bottle Beach -- Harlem nightclubs then & now -- Nellie Bly: the intrepid journalist -- Holdout buildings of New York City -- The history of New York City's pneumatic tubes -- Art deco doors of Manhattan -- Made in New York -- Bed-Stuy then & now -- The complicated and unfinished history of Ray's Pizza -- Snack carts, delivery bikes, and food trucks of New York City, 1800's to today -- In the drink: what's really in New York City's tap water -- Brooklyn theaters then & now -- An incomplete guide to New York real estate -- Micro-living: real estate's biggest scam -- Williamsburg & Bushwick then & new -- Staten Island's trash trouble -- Staten Island's boat graveyard -- Theaters of Staten Island then & now -- The ambiguous origins of New York City's famous egg cream -- New York City hotel keys of yore -- Carroll Gardens then & now -- A brief history of New York City's subway system -- Historic subway entrances -- Vintage & current subway etiquette ads -- Six types of forced physical contact on a New York City subway -- Secrets of the Astor Place subway station -- The oldest bars in New York City -- Hidden bars of New York City -- New York City bars then & now -- Typhoid Mary: the infectious cook -- Business signs of yore & today -- A truncated history of The Village Voice -- Bronx theaters then & now -- New York City's oldest bakeries still open today -- Lizzie Halliday: the forgotten serial killer arsonist -- Neighborhood shopping & dining then & now -- Vanishing New York CIty -- The long walk.
Summary "Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's."--Amazon.com.
Subject New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Pictorial works.
Business enterprises -- New York (State) -- New York -- Pictorial works.
New York (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Nonfiction.
HISTORY -- Social History.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Buildings. (OCoLC)fst00840962
Business enterprises. (OCoLC)fst00842519
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Genre/Form illustrated books. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300311820
Graphic novels. (OCoLC)fst01726630
Comics (Graphic works) (OCoLC)fst01921613
Illustrated works. (OCoLC)fst01423873
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
Comics (Graphic works)
Graphic novels.
Illustrated works.
Added Title Tenements, towers and trash
Unconventional illustrated history of New York City
ISBN 9780316501217 (hardcover)
0316501212 (hardcover)
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