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...Excerpt: The increase of the towns of Manhattan, as, for the sake of convenience, we shall term New York and her adjuncts, in all that contributes to the importance of a great commercial mart, renders them one of the most remarkable places of the present age. Within the distinct recollections of living men, they have gr...

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...es Fenimore Cooper A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES PUBLICATION New York by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...enimore Cooper A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES PUBLICATION New York by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. New York by James Fenimore Cooper, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. New York by James Fenimore Cooper, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. 3 James Fenimore Cooper New Y ork by James Fenimore Cooper T HE INCREASE OF THE TOWNS of Manhattan,... ... OF THE TOWNS of Manhattan, as, for the sake of convenience, we shall term New York and her adjuncts, in all that contributes to the importance of a g... ...THE TOWNS of Manhattan, as, for the sake of convenience, we shall term New York and her adjuncts, in all that contributes to the importance of a great... ...e port, in its position, se- curity , accessories, and scale. The State of New Y ork had been steadily advanc- ing in population, resources, and power... ...hese proportions, until that of l830, when the return for the State of New York gave 1,372,812, and for New England 1,954,709. At this time, and for a...

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...A humorous account of visits to various fortune tellers, card readers, seers, and other witches of New York. Written by Q.K. Philander Doesticks (a.k.a.Mortimer Thomson)....

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...'s house with Dodger instead of marrying Curtis. And what then? Would she be able to get used to being poor? And will she be poor for ever? Adrift in New York? (Summary by Stav Nisser)...

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...I find it very hard to classify The New York Idea under any of the established rubrics. It is rather too extravagant to rank as a comedy; it is much too serious in its purport, too searching in its character-delineation and too thoughtful in its wit, to be trea...

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...Bright lights, towering skyscrapers, frantic people: welcome to the Big Apple! New York City is one of the most fascinating cities in the entire world and its museums, restaurants, night-life, architecture and trends will conquer you...

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...New York City Ades Web Magazine 2010/01 New York City 3 Bridges 13 Buildings 92 Central Park 102 From The Empire St... ...New York City Ades Web Magazine 2010/01 New York City 3 Bridges 13 Buildings 92 Central Park 102 From The Empire State ... ...ke 204 N e w Y o r k C i t y Ades web magazine sniper policemAn reAdy for new yeAr 's eve - times squAre 205 N e w Y o r k C i t y Ades web magazine ... ...gazine mAdison squAre gArden 282 N e w Y o r k C i t y Ades web magazine new jersey , mAnhAttAn And the brooklyn bridge from stAten islAnd 283 N e w... ... times squAre 315 N e w Y o r k C i t y Ades web magazine times squAre - new yeAr 's dAy 316 N e w Y o r k C i t y Ades web magazine union squAre 3...

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...Joel Tyler Headley, The Great Riots of New York (1873). First printed as The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873: Including a Full and Complete Account of The Four Days' Draft Riot of 1863 (New York: E. B. Treat, 1873). Reprinted as Joel Tyler Headley, The Great...

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...This nonfiction collection of sketches, by members of the New York press, takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after dark, with stops along the way to vividly depict scenes ranging from the splendid to the squalid - but focusing largely on the latter! (Summary by Grant H...

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...Account of the New York Tenant Riots (July 14, 1766). In Hofstadter and Wallace, eds., pp. 116-17. From the July 14, 1766. American Violence: A Documentary History, Boston Gazetteer or Country Journal...

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...New York Mechanics Declaration of Independence (May 29, 1776). In Peter Force, ed., American Archives: Consisting of A Collection of Authentick Records, State Papers, Debates, and Letters and Other Notices of Publick Affairs,...

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...An Eyewitness Account of the Flour Riot in New York (February 1837). First printed in the Commercial Register (New York, New York), February 14, 1837, and then in Niles' Weekly Register (Baltimore, Maryland), 5th series, voL 1, no. 26 (February 25, 1837), pp. 433-44....

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...How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slum...

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..."Although Unitarianism, with its rejection of the deity of the Son and the Holy Ghost, is an ancient tradition, churches professing it were quite new in America when ten displaced New Englanders met in 1833 to found the First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn."...

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A New York Times article on an old UFO crash.

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...The Spencer Collection of modern book-bindings is now displayed at the Central Building of The New York Public Library. It consists of one hundred and seventy-five titles (two hundred and twenty-two volumes) by twenty-eight different binders, and illustrated by more than two hundred artists. A descriptive catalogue of ...

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...s enterprises have always represented the convictions of the owner, the publisher. You might not think it possible, but the most liberal of rags, The New York Times, was once a conservative newspaper! I know... it is hard to believe. How is that possible? Because, history has shown that if a publisher were a conservative (like the original founder of The New York Times...