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This beloved work, revised and expanded from the 1995 original, amasses the collective knowledge on New York City into a volume small enough to pick up and hold and large enough to satisfy the scholars, students, and enthusiasts native to New York or just passing through. Approximately 800 new entries and thousands of updated entries (about 100 were discarded) describe and contextualize the people, places, events, and phenomena that tell the story of New York City. Look up every half-remembered anecdote about the city's past, from Manhattan's abandoned pneumatic subway to the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, or browse the entries on...Log In or Sign Up to Read More