Previously on “How I Purged My Bookshelves Only to Fill Them Up Again” . . . .

I had gotten rid of some books to make room for others. In the spirit of expanding (or trying to expand) my admittedly Manhattan-centric view of Gotham, I went hunting new books. But this time books on the other boroughs. Brooklyn was a goldmine.

Queens is up next. One thing I’ve noticed – and which might be more a function of my searching rather than reality – there has been more ink spilled about Brooklyn while more cameras have been trained on Queens. Again, that might just be me and further searching may prove me wrong. And so without further delay, the Queens bookshelf:

• College Point, NY (Images of America)
• Conrad Poppenhusen: The Life of a German-American Industrial Pioneer
• Flushing: 1880-1935 (Postcard History Series)
• Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island (Images of Rail)
• Long Island City (Postcard History: New York)
• Maple Grove Cemetery, NY (Images of America)
• Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens
• Neighborhoods of Queens
• 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair: Creation and Legacy (Images of America)
• Old Queens, N.Y., in Early Photographs (Dover Books on New York City)
• Queens: What to Do, Where to Go (and How Not to Get Lost) in New York’s Undiscovered Borough
• Richmond Hill, NY (Images of America)
• Streetwise Queens Street Map

Next up – well, obviously The Bronx or Staten Island. We shall see which I manage to turf up the most stuff for.