1898-1951

A collection of photographs taken by photographer Edwin Levick during the first half of the twentieth century depicting New York City's harbors.

When World War I breaks out, nine-year-old Anna thinks of a way to save her family's beloved New York City doll repair shop. Includes brief author's note about the history of the Madame Alexander doll, a glossary, and timeline.

Presents a novelization of the life of Mary Mallon, the first known healthy carrier of typhoid in North America, who spent much of her life in quarantine after infecting the families she cooked for in New York City in the early 1900s.

Chronicles Franklin Roosevelt's struggle to expose powerful New York officials with mob ties in 1932.

In 1901, thirteen-year-old Dimitri, his younger brother, and their parents are beginning to feel at home in New York City's Lower East Side, where they have lived since their Jewish faith led them to flee Russia thirteen months earlier.

During the early days of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, Pura Belpre, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta.

The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn.

A young girl and her older sister, working in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, an early twentieth-century sweatshop on the Lower East Side of New York City, join a protest to try to improve the miserable working conditions.