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An overview of the Harlem Renaissance, chronicling its history, and discussing the lives and accomplishments of African American authors, artists, and leaders of the era. Includes a time line, glossary, and other resources.

Describes and directs travelers to roadside oddities, personalized properties, strange beasts, legendary spots, places related to local heroes and villains, and sites of unexplained phenomena throughout the state of New York.

A collection of essays written by the author from age fifteen to seventeen in which he shares impressions of school, sports, cool people, boring people, friends, family, money, music, and obsessions.

The author tells the story of how she and her mother came to New York City in 1951 to try to leave the horrors of the Holocaust behind, but found it harder than they expected to fit into this "new world.".

A biography of Rudy Giuliani, discussing his early life, his career in law and politics, his term as mayor of New York City, and his laudable behavior in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.

A collection of photographs which profile the size, beauty, and architecture of the World Trade Center Towers.

Historical photographs and text help describe how the people, buildings, and culture of New York City have changed during the twentieth century.

Follows the story of one European immigrant who arrived in New York in 1902, was a hobo, and became a labor organizer and song writer.

Discusses the development of the collection held by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and showcases the works of 280 of the museum's more than two thousand exhibitors with color reproductions and descriptive essays.

Provides an account of the terrorist bombing on Wall Street in September 1920, in which thirty-eight people died, and the nationwide search for those believed to be responsible.