Empire State Editions
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The Rat That Got Away (Hardcover)
A Bronx Memoir Allen Jones, with Mark NaisonPrice: $70.00The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man’s odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban...
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The Accidental Playground (Paperback)
Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned Daniel CampoPrice: $32.00The Accidental Playground explores the remarkable landscape created by individuals and small groups who occupied and rebuilt an abandoned Brooklyn waterfront. While local residents, activists, garbage haulers, real estate developers, speculators, and two city administrations fought over the fate...
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The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side (Hardcover)
A Retrospective and Contemporary View, 2nd Edition Gerard R. Wolfe, Photographs by Jo Renee Fine, and Norman Borden, Foreword by Joseph BergerPrice: $29.95It has often been said that nowhere in the United States can one find a greater collection of magnificent and historic synagogues than on New York’s Lower East Side. As the ultimate destination for millions of immigrant eastern European Jews during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it...
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Still the Same Hawk (Paperback)
Reflections on Nature and New York Edited by John WaldmanPrice: $18.00A groundbreaking new book, Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York brings into conversation diverse and intriguing perspectives on the relationship between nature and America’s most prominent city. The volume’s title derives from a telling observation in Robert...
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Heartbeats in the Muck (Paperback)
The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor, Revised Edition John WaldmanPrice: $18.00Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor’s environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of...
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