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NYPD detective James Sakura is called in to investigate when a murderer begins stalking the city's residents, and James soon realizes he searching for a ruthless killer with some bizarre obsessions.

When a vigilante known only as Justice begins killing off the lowlifes of New York, NYPD Detective First Grade Brian McKenna and his partner are put on the case, and find their investigation hindered by the city's support of the killer.

The author draws from her experiences in the Lubavitch community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to examine the lives of Hasidic girls ages thirteen to twenty-three, discussing their hopes, thoughts, values, and feelings about religious life.

Chronicles the history of the Pierre Matisse Gallery which opened in 1931, highlighting the role of Matisse in the establishment of the New York art world, and documents some of the significant works by established and lesser-known artists exhibited at the gallery.

Traces the history of Yankee Stadium, providing information on the New York Yankees, the most popular players who have been there, the businessmen behind it, the famous games and plays, and other related topics.

Photographs, illustrations, reproductions, and text profile the drawings and watercolors that are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Presents a collection of documentary street photographs taken by artist Ben Shahn in New York City in the early 1930s, with text that examines the social history of the pictures, as well as an analysis of Shahn's motives and the importance of his art.

Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.

Lionel, a Jewish boy growing up in a New York City tenement, draws pictures on every scrap of paper he can find, but he does not see any value in his efforts until his teacher takes him on a streetcar journey to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The story of a struggling young actress trying to get ahead--and keep it together--in New York City.