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020    9781632867421|q(hardcover) 
020    1632867427|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)1269417975 
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050 00 F128.3|b.B53 2022 
082 00 974.7/1|223 
100 1  Bird, Christiane,|eauthor. 
245 12 A block in time :|ba New York City history at the corner 
       of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third street /|cChristiane 
       Bird. 
246 30 New York City history at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 
       Twenty-Third street 
264  1 New York :|bBloomsbury Publishing,|c[2022] 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    xv, 366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plages :
       |billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
520    "Gotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in 
       this dazzling history of a single square block in 
       Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present. This
       is the story of New York City, told through the prism of 
       one block, bordered by Twenty-Third Street to the south, 
       Twenty-Fourth Street to the north, Fifth Avenue to the 
       east, and Sixth Avenue to the west. It's a story of forest
       and cement, bird cries and taxi horns, gambling dens and 
       gourmet foods. It's also the story of high life and low 
       life, immigrants and tourists, laborers and aristocrats-
       from Solomon Pieters, a former slave who was the first 
       owner of the block, to John Randel Jr., the surveyor who 
       laid out Manhattan's famous grid plan, to Anthony 
       "Clubber" Comstock, the notorious police officer of the 
       1870s who accepted bribes and wielded his club with equal 
       impunity, to Marietta Stevens, whose Sunday night socials 
       and scheming became the stuff of legend. Greed and 
       generosity, guilt and innocence, extravagance and 
       degradation-all have flourished in this one Manhattan 
       block, emblematic of the city as a whole. Welcome to New 
       York, past and present, and hear all the sordid and 
       edifying stories this small patch of land has to tell. 
       Venturing from the opulent halls of the Fifth Avenue Hotel
       to grimy Sixth Avenue brothels, from the era of the Lenape
       to that of the Dutch, from the Gilded Age to the early 
       twentieth century, when the block and the city were 
       transformed into something closely resembling the 
       Manhattan we know today-within the confines of this single
       block resides the panoramic story of the city as a whole"-
       -|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 City blocks|zNew York (State)|zNew York|xHistory. 
650  0 Neighborhoods|zNew York (State)|zNew York|xHistory. 
650  7 HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 City blocks.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00862105 
650  7 Neighborhoods.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01715963 
651  0 Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)|xHistory. 
651  0 Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.)|xHistory. 
651  0 Twenty-third Street (New York, N.Y.)|xHistory. 
651  7 New York (State)|zNew York.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204333 
651  7 New York (State)|zNew York|zFifth Avenue.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01318877 
651  7 New York (State)|zNew York|zManhattan.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01312688 
651  7 New York (State)|zNew York|zTwenty-third Street.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01930561 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
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