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Presents articles on the September 11 attacks, including firsthand accounts of the destruction at the World Trade Center, speeches by George W. Bush and Tony Blair, and discussions of patriotism, racism, and the Arab world. Includes an appendix of evidence against Osama bin Laden and a chronology of the day's events.

Chronicles the life of George Washington Appo, a career criminal who served as leader of New York's underworld in Gilded Age New York and describes the social, economic, and cultural atmosphere of the city during his life.

Recounts the true story of Pennsylvania Railroad president Alexander Cassatt's ambitious journey to build the railroad by creating a monumental system of electrified tunnels under the Hudson River, Manhattan, and the East River, despite dangerous conditions, corporate sabotage, and his investors' lack of faith in the project.

A columnist describes her adolescence as a runaway in New York City, explaining why she exchanged her home for life on the city streets, her struggle to balance school, the shelter system, and her battle to rescue herself from street life.

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.".

Andrea Giovino chronicles her struggle to break free from her family's involvement in the Mob, recounting her parents' and siblings' criminal activities and the impact they had on her own life.

Presents a republication of the graphic novel first published in 1978 that depicts the lives and dreams of a group of people living in a Bronx tenement.

An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant across the street from the United Nations, and together with a strange group of artists, waitresses, and friends, they await the end of the world.

The author's memoir of growing up white in a predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhood of housing projects on New York's Lower East Side during the 1970s and '80s.

Chronicles the experiences Johanna Grussner had while teaching music at a New York City public school, focusing on how she turned the school's students into a successful gospel chorus.