NYC Books
Here are some books (listed in no particular order) about New York that we've found interesting:
- City Lights: Stories About New York by Dan Barry. A series of quirky essays about ordinary people in an extraordinary city, based on Barry's "About New York" column which appeared in the New York Times from 2003-2006.
- The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods on the New New York by Joseph Berger. A New York Times reporter roams the changing immigrant neighborhoods of New York City.
- The Cool Parents' Guide to All of New York by Brooklyn-based authors and parents Alfred Gingold and Helen Rogan is a handy little book that lists tons of activities around town. Includes fun facts and places to go like the caves in Inwood and original Winnie the Pooh toys in midtown.
- Red-Tails in Love by Marie Winn chronicles the lives of Pale Male and Lola, the hawks that nested on the 12th floor of a 5th Avenue building.
- Manhattan in Detail by Robert L. Bowden shows 50 of the author/artist’s favorite New York spaces rendered in watercolor with accompanying fast facts and opinions.
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