Inside the Apple

A Streetwise History of New York City

Michelle Nevius, James Nevius

• Publisher: Free Press
• Year: 2009
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781416593935
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

How much do you actually know about New York City? Did you know they tried to anchor Zeppelins at the top of the Empire State Building? Or that the high-rent district of Park Avenue was once so dangerous it was called “Death Avenue”? This lively and comprehensive guidebook brings New York’s fascinating past to vivid life.

This narrative history of New York City is the first to offer practical walking tour know-how. Fast-paced but thorough, its bite-size chapters each focus on an event, person, or place of historical significance. Rich in anecdotes and illustrations, it whisks readers from colonial New Amsterdam through Manhattan's past, right up to post-9/11 New York. The book also works as a historical walking-tour guide, with 14 self-guided tours, maps, and step-by-step directions. Easy to carry with you as you explore the city, Inside the Apple allows you to visit the site of every story it tells. This energetic, wide-ranging, and often humorous book covers New York's most important historical moments, but is always anchored in the city of today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Colophon
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Note to Readers
• PART 1 The Early City: New Amsterdam, Colonial New York, the Revolutionary Era, and the Birth of the New Republic, 1608-1804
• PART 2 The Great Port, 1805-1835
• PART 3 The Growth of the Immigrant City, 18361865
• PART 4 The City in Transition, 18661897
• PART 5 “The New City Beautiful”, 18981919
• PART 6 Boom and Bust, 19201945
• PART 7 The City Since World War II, 1946Present
• PART 8 Walking Tours
• Acknowledgments
• Photograph and Illustration Credits
• About the Authors