New York by Sunlight and Gaslight
a Work Descriptive of the Great American Metropolis
This classic 1882 work is a valentine to the Big Apple... from the time before it earned that moniker. With the affectionate touch that only a New Yorker by choice can muster, journalist James Dabney McCabe, a native of Virginia, explores the history of the metropolis, strangers in New York, the secret of the city's capacity for generating wealth, a tour of busy New York harbor, thoughts on Boss Tweed, Broadway theaters of the day, the various classes of society, the city's famous parks and avenues, Wall Street, Christmas in New York (famous even then), the NYPD and prisons, the tenements, and much, much more, including…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-60520-900-5
- EAN: 9781605209005
- Produktnummer: 6873769
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 704 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D4.0 cm 1'063 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 1063
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