New York City and Its Borough (County) Histories

New York City & Its Borough (County) Histories

 

         See also   Cities of New York State  web page [for other cities within New York State]

 

--  General   (Greater New York City)

              See also   United Nations

• Gotham Center for New York City History (City University of New York.  The Center)
• Direct Me NYC 1940 (New York Public Library) -- 1940 Census directory for all five boroughs
• List of [famous] People from New York City (Wikipedia)
• Museum of the City of New York (The Museum)
• New Amsterdam History Center (The Center)
• New York Public Library (New York Public Library) 
• New York City History Web Resources (New York Public Library)
• NY, NY Index [chronology and bibliography] (David Minor)
• American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society.  Women's Auxiliary.  A Historic Sketch of Certain Defences of New York City During the War of 1812-1815; With an Account  of the Unveiling of a Tablet Erected by the Auxiliary [full text].  [s.l.]:  The Auxiliiary, 1902.  (Internet Archive]

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• American Passage:  The History of Ellis Island / Vincent J. Cannato
• Ancient New York [videorecording] / produced by Wild Dream Films for the History Channel
• Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn / Henry P. Johnston
• Encyclopedia of New York City / ed. by Kenneth T. Jackson; ececutive ed., Lisa Keller; managing ed., Nancy V. Flood
• Endless Search for the HMS Hussar:  New York's Legendary Treasure Shipwreck / Robert Apuzzo
• Forgotten Patriots:  The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War / Edwin G. Burrows
• Generous Enemies:  Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York / Judith L. van Buskirk
• Helluva Town:  The Story of New York City During World War II / Richard Goldstein
• New York Year by Year:  A Chronology of the Great Metropolis / Jeffrey A. Kreoessler
• The Other Islands of New York City:  A History and Guide / Sharon Seitz and Stuart Miller
• Over Here!:  New York City During World War II / Lorraine B. Diehl
• The Power Broker:  Robert Moses and the Fall of New York / Robert A. Caro
• 722 Miles:  The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York / Cliffton Hood

---  Architecture, Monuments, Icons  (just a few)

• Chrysler Building (Wikipedia)
• Historic House Trust's Videos (Historic House Trust, New York City -- 7 videos:  Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum; Van Cortlandt House Museum; Queens County Farm Museum; Morris-Jumel Mansion; Lefferts Historic House; The Conference House; Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum)
• History & Culture (U.S. National Park Service. Ellis Island)
• Flatiron Building (Wikipedia) 
• History (Empire State Building Official Internet Site)
• New York's Guggenheim Still Turns Heads, by Seth Doane (CBS Evening News)
• Statue of Liberty (U.S. National Parks Service.  Statue of Liberty National Monument) 
• Top Ten New York Architecture (Tom Fletcher's New York Architecture Imges and Notes)  

--  Bronx County (Borough)

• Borough of the Bronx, 1639-1913:  Its Marvelous Development and Historical Surroundings, by Harry T. Cook, assisted by Nathan J. Kaplan.  New York:  The Author, 1913  (Internet Archive)
• Brief Look at the Bronx (Bronx County Clerk's Office)
• Bronx County Historical Society (The Society)
• Bronx on the Web:  History (New York Public Library) 
• History of Bronx Borough, City of New York, comp. for The North Side News, by Randall Comfort, with collaboration of Charles D. Steurer and Charles A.D. Meyerhoff.  New York:  North Side News Press, 1906  (Internet Archive)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Beautiful Bronx (1920-1950) / Lloyd Ultan; Bronx County Historical Society
• Boulevard of Dreams:  Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx / Constance Rosenblum
• Bronx / Evelyn Gonzalez
• Bronx:  It was Only Yesterday, 1935-1965 / Lloyd Ultan and Gary Hermalyn; Bronx County Historical Society
• Bronx Accent:  A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough / [comp. by] Lloyd Ultan and Barbara Unger
• Bronx and Its People, 1609-1927, v. 3-4 / James L. Wells, Louis F. Haffen, et al., eds.
• Bronx and Its People; A History, 1609-1927, v. 4-5 / James L. Wells, et al., eds.
• Bronx in the Frontier Era:  From the Beginning to 1696 / Lloyd Ultan, written in collaboration with the Bronx County Historical Society 
• Bronx in the Innocent Years, 1890-1925 / Lloyd Ultan and Gary Hermalyn; Bronx County Historical Society
• Fortune Teller's Kiss / Brenda Serotte
• Genealogy in the Bronx:  An Annotated Guide to Sources of Information / comp. by Laura Tosi and Janet Butler; ed. by Gary Hermalyn; Bronx County Historical Society
• History in Asphalt:  The Origin of Bronx Street and Place Names, the Bronx, New York City / John McNamara
• In My Father's Bakery:  A Bronx Memoir / Marvin Korman
• Indefensible:  One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice / David Feige
• Kitchen Privileges:  A Memoir / Mary Higgins Clark 
• Legacy of the Revolution:  The Valentine-Varian House / Lloyd Ultan; Bronx County Historical Society
• Lost in America:  A Journey with My Father / Sherwin B. Newland
• Rat That Got Away:  A Bronx Memoir / Allen Jones with Mark Naison
• Tilting at Mills:  Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings, and the Corporate Squeeze / Lis Harris
• Theatres of the Bronx / Michael R. Miller
• We're Still Here:  The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of the South Bronx / Jill Jonnes
• Wild Lives:  A History of the People and Animals of the Bronx Zoo / Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld; with photographs from the Wildlife Conservation Society 
• You Belong in a Zoo!:  Tales from a Lifetime Spent with Cobras, Crocs, and Other Creatures / Peter Brazaitis

 

--  Kings County (Borough)  [also known as Brooklyn]

 

           See  Kings County (Brooklyn) History web page

 

           See also  Long Island Counties web page

     

 

--  New York County (Borough)    [Manhattan Island]

 

---  General 

• History of the City of New York, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Illustrated with Over One Hundred Engravings, v.1, by Mary Louise Booth.  New York:  W.R.C. Clark and Meeker, 1859  (Internet Archive)
• History of the City of New York:  Its Origin, Rise, and Progress, v. 1, by Martha J. Lamb.  New York; Chicago:  A.S. Barnes and Co., 1877  (Internet Archive)
• History of the City of New York:  Its Origin, Rise, and Progress, v. 2, by Martha J. Lamb.  New York; Chicago:  A.S. Barnes and Co., 1877  (Internet Archive)
• Historical Guide to the City of New York, by City History Club of New York.  Historic Traces Committee, prepared with the co-operation of, and endorsed by the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society.  New York:  F.A. Stokes Co., 1909  (Internet Archive)

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Manhattan on the Web:  History (New York Public Library)
• In Old New York:  A Classic History of New York City / Thomas A. Janvier
• City of New York:  A History Illustrated from the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York / Jerry E. Patterson
• City on Two Rivers:  Profiles of New York - Yesterday and Today / Stephen Longstreet 
• Downtown [sound recording]:  My Manhattan / Pete Hamill - read by the author
• Encyclopedia of New York City / ed. by Kenneth T. Jackson; exec. ed. Lisa Keller; managing ed., Nancy V. Flood
• Epic of New York City / Edward Robb Ellis
• Historic Houses in New York City Parks / Jonathan Kuhn; Historic House Trust of New York City
• Historic New York, 4 v. / ed. by Maud Wilder Goodwin, et al.
• Historical Atlas of New York City:  A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York City History / Eric Homberger; Alice Hudson, cartographic consultant 
• Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, 6 v. / comp. and ed. by Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes
• Knickerbocker:  The Myth Behind New York / Elizabeth L. Bradley
• Lox, Stocks, and Backstage Broadway:  Iconic Trades of New York City / Nancy Groce
• Mannahatta:  A Natural History of New York City / Eric W. Sanderson, Wildlife Conservation Society
• Mirror for Gotham:  New York as Seen by Contemporaries from Dutch Days to the Present / Bayrd Still 
• New York:  A Chronological and Documentary History, 1524-1970 / comp. and ed. by Howard B. Furer 
• Old New York in Early Photographs, 1853-1901:  196 Prints from the Collection of the New York Historical Society / Mary Black, curator of painting and sculpture
• Picturing New York:  The City from Its Beginnings to the Present / Gloria Deak
• Low Life:  Lures and Snares of Old New York / Luc Sante
• Unearthing Gotham:  The Archaeology of New York City / Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana di Zerega Wall 
• Walt Whitman's New York:  From Manhattan to Montauk / ed. by Henry M. Christman 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• All Around the Town:  Amazing Manhattan Facts and Curiosities / Patrick Bunyan
• Gotham:  A History of New York City to 1898 / Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace

---  African American history

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Black Gotham:  A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth Century New York / Carla L. Peterson
• The Black New Yorkers:  The Schomberg Illustrated Chronology / Howard Dodson; New York Public Library.  Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Discovering Black New York:  A Guide to the City's Most Important African-American Landmarks, Restaurants, Museums, Historical Sites, and More / Linda Tarrant-Reid
• New Amsterdam Gehenna:  Segregated Death in New York City, 1630-1801 / Robert J. Sawn
• Showtime at the Apollo / Ted Fox

---  Artists and Art history

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Art+ NYC:  A Complete Guide to New York City Art and Artists

---  Broadway & the Theater District

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Broadway:  Its History, People, and Places:  An Encyclopedia / Ken Bloom
• Broadway Boogie Woogie [electronic resource]:  Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture / Daniel R. Schwartz

---  Central Park

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• The Park and the People:  A History of Central Park / Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar 

---  Charter [1819]

• Charter of the City of New-York, Published Pursuant to an Order of the Common Council, Passed June 14th, 1819.  New York:  Grattan and Banks, 1819  (Internet Archive)

---  Cultural history

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• New York City:  A Cultural and Literary Companion / Eric Homberger
• New York City:  A Cultural History / Eric Homberger

---  Description and Travel [historic]

• Appleton's New York City and Vicinity Guide:  Giving a Full and Accurate Description of the Great Metropolis and Environs; Public Buildings; Places of Interest; and Location of Churches, Banks, Insurance Offices, Hotels, &c.  Also a Complete List of the Various Steamboat, Railroad, and Stage Conveyances Diverging Therefrom; With Times of Departure, Fares, Etc.  Illustrated with Maps and Engravings, by W. Williams.  New York; Philadelphia:  D. Appleton and Co.; Geo. S. Appleton, 1849  (Internet Archive)
• History of the City of New York, Illustrated, v.2, by Mary Louise Booth.  New York:  W.R.C. Clark and Meeker, 1867  (Internet Archive)
• New York Sketches, by Jesse Lynch Williams.  New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902  (Internet Archives) 
• Historic Buildings Now Standing in New York which were Erected Prior to Eighteen Hundred.   New York:  Printed for the Bank of Manhattan Co., 1914  (Internet Archive)

---  Disabled

• Survey of Cripples in New York City, Undertaken by A Committee on Survey of Cripples, [comp. by] Henry C. Wright, Director of Survey, et al.; With the Compliments of the New York Committee on After Care of Infantile Paralysis Cases.  [New York:]  The Committee, 1920  (Internet Archives) 

---  Finances & Financial District

• Bankrupting a Great City (The Story of New York), by Henry H. Klein.  [New York:]  The Author, 1915  (Internet Archive)
• Financial District, Manhattan  (Wikipedia)
• First Bank of New York, by David Cowen  (EH.net; Economic History Association)
• Centennial History of New York City, from the Discovery to the Present Day [computer file] / William Leete Stone
• History (NYSE Euronext;  New York Stock Exchange)
• About Us (Occupy Wall Street)

---  Geography

• Geography of New York City, a Supplement to Maury's Elementary Geography, by Edward B. Shallow.  [New York:]  University Publishing Co., 1904  (Internet Archive)

---  Gracie Mansion

• New York City's Gracie Mansion:  A History of the Mayor's House:  An Account of the Years, 1646 to 1942 / Mary Black

---  Greenwich Village

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• American Moderns:  Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century / Christine Stansell
• Antebellum Crisis and America's First Bohemians / Mark A. Lause
• Greenwich Village:  A Guide to America's Legendary Left Bank/ Judith Stonehill
• Greenwich Village and How It Got that Way / Terry Miller
• Greenwich Village Reader:  Fiction, Poetry, and Reminiscinces, 1872-2002 / ed. by June Skinner Sawyers 
• Inside Greenwich Village:  A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1919 / Gerald W. McFarland
• Republic of Dreams:  Greenwich Village:  The American Bohemia, 1910-1960 / Ross Wetzsteon

---  Harlem

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Harlem:  The 400 Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America / Jonathan Gill
• Harlem is Nowhere:  A Journey to the Mecca of Black America / Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

---  Hispanic American history

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Nueva York, 1613-1945 / ed. by Edward J. Sullivan

---  History - Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775

• Description of the Province and City of New-York; With Plans of the City and Several Forts as They Existed in the Year 1695, by the Rev. John Miller, Now First Printed from the Original Manuscript (to which is Added, a Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books, Relating to America, on Sale by the Publisher).  London:  Thomas Rodd, 1843  (Internet Archive) 
• How the Dutch Came to Manhattan, penned and pictured by Blanche McManus.  New York:  E.R. Herrick & Co., 1897  (Internet Archive)
• View of the City of New-Orange (Now New-York,) as It Was in the Year 1673.  with Explanatory Notes, by Joseph W. Moulton, Esq.  New York:  C.S. van Winkle, 1825  (Internet Archive)  - most of the view is obscured; but the text is essentially quite visible

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Before the Melting Pot:  Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730 / Joyce D. Goodfriend
• Brink of Revolution:  New York in Crisis, 1765-1776 / Peter Decker
• Colonial Days in Old New York / Alice Morse Earle
• Defying Empire:  Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York / Thomas M. Truxes
• Island at the Center of the World:  The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America / Russell Shorto

---  History - Revolution, 1775-1783

• Relics of the Revolution:  The Story of the Discovery of the Buried Remains of Military Life in Forts and Camps on Manhattan Island, by Reginald Pelham Bolton.  New York:  The Author, 1916  (Internet Archive)

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Battle for Manhattan / Bruce Bliven, Jr.
• Battle for New York:  The Cty at the Heart of the American Revolution / Barnet Schecter
• Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn / Henry Phelps Johnston
• Endless Search for the HMS Hussar:  New York's Legendary Treasure Shipwreck / Robert Apuzzo
• Forgotten Patriots:  The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War / Edwin G. Burrows
• Generous Enemies:  Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York / Judith L. Van Buskirk
• Inhabitants of New York, 1774-1776 / Thomas B. Wilson
• New York City During the War for Independence:  With Special Reference to the Period of British Occupation / Oscar Theodore Barck
• New York City's Buried Past:  A Guide to Excavated New York City's Revolutionary War Artifacts, 1776-1783 / Robert Apuzzo
• Toast to Freedom:  New York Celebrates Evacuation Day / Robert I. Goler
• Under the Guns:  New York, 1775-1776 / Bruce Bliven

---  History - 1783-1815

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• City of New York in the Year of Washington's Inauguration, 1789 / Thomas Edward Vermilye Smith
• The Federalist Papers / Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay

---  History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Gotham at War:  New York City, 1860-1865 / Edward K. Spann
• Man Who Tried to Burn New York City / Nat Brandt
• Tell Me of Lincoln:  Memories of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and Life in Old New York / James Edward Kelly, ed. by William B. Styple

---  History, 1890-1899

 

----   PML Catalog Sampler:

• In the Golden Nineties / Henry Collins Brown 

---  Hoaxes

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• The Sun and the Moon:  The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth Century New York / Matthew Goodman

---  Irish American history

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Voices of the Irish Immigrant:  Information Wanted Ads in "The Truth Teller", New York City, , 1825-1844 / Diane Fitzpatrick Haberstroh

---  Italian American history

• Churches, Communities, and Children:  Italian Immigrants in the Archdiocese of New York, 1880-1945 / Mary Elizabeth Brown
• Second Generation of Italians in New York City...Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at New York University, by John Horace Mariano.  Boston:  Christopher Publishing House, 1921  (Internet Archive)

---  Jewish American history

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Edge of a Dream:  The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York's Lower East Side, 1880-1920 / Lawrence J. Epstein
• Synagogues of New York City:  History of a Jewish Community / Oscar Israelowitz 
• World of Our Fathers / Irving Howe, with the assistance of Kenneth Libo

---  Korean-American history

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival:  Korean Greengrocers in New York City / Pyong Gap Min

---  Land Ownership 

• History of Municipal Ownership of Land on Manhattan Island: To the Beginning of Sales of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund in 1844, v. 1, by George Ashton Black, 2nd ed. New York:  Columbia University, 1897 (Internet Archive)

---  Landmarks

 

----   PML Catalog Sampler:

• New York Landmarks:  A Collection of Architectural and Historical Details / Charles J. Ziga, et al. 

---  Lower East Side

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Archaeology of Home:  An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side / Katherine Greider
• Life on the Lower East Side, 1937-1950 / photos by Rebecca Lepkoff; text by Peter E. Dans and Suzanne Wasserman

---  Madison Square

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Madison Square:  The Park and Its Celebrated Landmarks / Miriam Berman

---  Maritime History

• Buried Maritime History in Lower Manhattan, by Emily B. Hager (New York Times, July 15, 2010)
• Fulton Fish Market  (Wikipedia)
• South Street Seaport Museum  (The Museum)

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Maritime History of New York / U.S.  Works Projects Program.  Writer's Program (New York, N.Y.)

---  Motion Picture Industry

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Life of a City [ computer file]:  Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 / U.S.  Library of Congress.  Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division

---  Murder

• American Eve:  Evelyn Nesbit, Sanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl, and the Crime of the Century / Paula Uruburu

---  Names, Geographic

• Naming New York:  Manhattan Places and How They Got Their Names / Sanna Feirstein 
• Origin of the Name Manhattan, with Historical and Ethnological Notes, by William Wallace Tooker (The Algonquian Series, v. 1, 1901)  (Internet Archive)

---  Neighborhoods

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Fragility of Turf:  The Neighborhoods of New York City / Michael Winkelman

---  New York University

• New York University and the City:  An Illustrated History / Thomas J. Frusciano and Marilyn H. Pettit

---  Park Avenue

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Park Avenue:  Street of Dreams / James Trager

---  Penmanship

• [New York City Penmanship Scale.  Brooklyn, NY:  Eagle Printing Co., 1918]  (Internet Archive)  

---  Prehistory

 

----   PML Catalog Sampler:

• Ancient New York [videorecording] / produced by Wild Dream Films for the History Channel
• New York City in Indian Possession / Reginald Pelham Bolton

---  Riots

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Great Riots of New York City, 1712-1873 / Joel Tyler Headley
• New York Burning:  Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan / Jill Lepore

---  Shipwrecks

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Lost Voyages:  Two Centuries of Shipwrecks in the Approaches to New York / Bradley Sheard
• Perils of the Port of New York:  Maritime Disasters from Sandy Hook to Execution Rock / Jeannette Edwards Rattray
• Ship Ablaze:  The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum / Edward T. O'Donnell
• Shipwrecks of New York / Gary Gentile

---  Slavery

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Slavery in New York / ed. by Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris

---  Slums

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Five Points:  The 19th Century New York Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance,Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum /Tyler Anbinder

---  Subway history

 

----  PML Catalog Sampler:

• The Subway and the City:  Celebrating a Century / Stan Fischler with John Henderson
• Subways:  The Tracks that Built New York City / Lorraine B. Diehl

---  Times Square

• Inventing Times Square:  Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World / ed. by William R. Taylor
• Times Square:  A Pictorial History / Jill Stone  

--  Queens County (Borough)  [originally included what became Nassau County, in 1899]

 

             See  Queens County History  web page          

            

             See also   Nassau County History  web page

                             Long Island Counties web page   

     

--  Richmond County (Borough) [Staten Island]

• Conference House (Wikipedia)
• The Conference House / Conference House.org
• Cultural Landscape Report for the Battery Weed Headland, Fort Wadsworth Gateway National Recreation Area, Staten Island, New York [electronic record] / by Jean Gleisner and John Auwaerter; George Curry, project director
• History of Richmond County (Staten Island) New York, From Its Discovery to the Present Time, ed. by Richard M. Bayles.  New York:  L.E. Preston & Co., 1887  (Internet Archive)
• The Melyn Patroonship of Staten Island:  Address Delivered at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the New York Branch of The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, Held in the City of New York, April 21, 1921, by William Churchill Houston, [The Order,]1923.  (Internet Archive)
• Staten Island on the Web:  History (New York Public Library)
• Staten Island Wills and Letters of Administration, Richmond County, New York, 1670-1800; as Found in the Surrogate's Court, New York County, New York and Abstracted by the New York Historical Society, 1892-1908, and Staten Island References Found in the New Jersey Colonial Documents / Charlotte McGill Hicks

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Annals of Staten Island, from Its Discovery to the Present Time / J.J. Clute
• Guide to Historical Resources in Richmond County, New York Repositories / Cornell University.  Olin Library.  New York Historical Resources Center
• Major and the Queen:  Or, a Royal Grant to a Gallant Soldier / Stephen Lyon Mershon
• Manor Houses and Historic Homes of Long Island and Staten Island / Harold Donaldson Eberlein
• Old Families of Staten Island / J.J. Clute
• Staten Island, 1524-1898 / Henry G. Steinmeyer
• Staten Island Church Records / [ed. by Tobias Alexander Wright]
• Staten Island Walking Tours / Shirley Zavin and Elsa Gilbertson