By Kenneth T. Jackson,Lisa Keller

ISBN-10: 0300114656

ISBN-13: 9780300114652

Covering an exhaustive diversity of data in regards to the 5 boroughs, the 1st version of The Encyclopedia of recent York City used to be successful via each degree, incomes around the world acclaim and several other awards for reference excellence, and promoting out its first printing prior to it was once formally published.

But a lot has replaced because the quantity first seemed in 1995: the area alternate middle not dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman has turn into an not likely three-term mayor, and concrete regeneration—Chelsea Piers, the excessive Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the reduce East Side—has turn into typical. to mirror such innovation and alter, this definitive, one-volume source at the urban has been thoroughly revised and expanded.

The revised version contains 800 new entries that support entire the tale of recent York: from Air educate to E-ZPass, from September eleven to public order. the hot fabric contains broader insurance of topic components formerly underserved in addition to new maps and illustrations. nearly all current entries—spanning structure, politics, enterprise, activities, the humanities, and more—have been up-to-date to mirror the impression of the prior decades.

The greater than 5,000 alphabetical entries and seven-hundred illustrations of the second one version of The Encyclopedia of latest York City convey the richness and variety of its topic in nice breadth and aspect, and should proceed to function an integral device for everybody who has even a passing curiosity within the American metropolis.

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