I love a good local history and at the moment, I am current reading Rogues’ Gallery: The Secret History of the Mogul and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum by Michael Gross.  Gross’ name may ring a bell if you read 740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building (which I didn’t [...]

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So – we’ve got the borough of Brooklyn done, and Queens has been sorted. I bet you thought I was going to The Bronx next, right? Not so. I thought it would be nice to thrown a little love Staten Island’s way. Oh I know they get tetchy sometimes but you can’t take all that [...]

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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 [...]

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I have a lot of books about New York. I have slightly fewer than I had last year as one of my New Year’s resolutions was to clear out at least some of them. As I sorted through the titles however, I noticed that the majority of these titles were essentially about Manhattan. I admit [...]

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