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Grandma's gift

The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.

Mis amigos =

My friends
Amelia Lauren Moyer Pe?rez, a young girl living in New York with her brother Gabriel, and her mother, a teacher from the Dominican Republic, tells about the different activities sheenjoys with her many friends. Presented in English and Spanish.

Phoebe the spy

Phoebe Fraunces has a chance to save the life of General George Washington while he has dinner at Mortier House in New York City.

House of thieves

2016
In 1886 New York, a respectable architect shouldn't have any connection to the notorious gang of thieves and killers that rules the underbelly of the city. But when John Cross's son racks up an unfathomable gambling debt to Kent's Gents, Cross must pay it back himself. All he has to do is use his inside knowledge of high society mansions and museums to craft a robbery even the smartest detectives won't solve.
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One World Trade Center

2018
The book describes how the skyscraper was designed and built, story by story.
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You bring the distant near

From 1965 through the present, an Indian American family adjusts to life in New York City, alternately fending off and welcoming challenges to their own traditions.

The Tapper twins go to war (with each other)

An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between 12-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City.

All the greys on Greene Street

2019
"SoHo, 1981. Twelve-year-old Olympia is an artist--and in her neighborhood, that's normal. Her dad and his business partner Apollo bring antique paintings back to life, while her mother makes intricate sculptures in a corner of their loft, leaving Ollie to roam the streets of New York with her best friends Richard and Alex, drawing everything that catches her eye. Then everything falls apart. Ollie's dad disappears in the middle of the night, leaving her only a cryptic note and instructions to destroy it. Her mom has gone to bed, and she's not getting up. Apollo is hiding something, Alex is acting strange, and Richard has questions about the mysterious stranger he saw outside. And someone keeps calling, looking for a missing piece of art . . . Olympia knows her dad is the key--but first, she has to find him, and time is running out"--Jacket flap.

Polka dot parade

a book about Bill Cunningham
2018
The story of New York City photographer Bill Cunningham, the legend who created street fashion photography and left behind a legacy of glorious pictures.

Lillian Wald

America's great social and healthcare reformer
2018
A biography of Lillian Wald, a social reformer who dedicated her life to helping citizens in New York with healthcare and education.

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