Book Chapters, Scholarly Articles, & Primary Sources
Theme 1: NYC Origins and Building a Legend
The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford
The Imperial City of New York article, published 1927
Old Buildings of New York, With Some Notes Regarding Their Origin and Occupants book
The Secrets of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
The Story of Manhattan by Charles Hemstreet
Vistas of New York by Brander Matthews
New York Sketches by Jesse Lynch Williams
Theme 2: The Great Outdoors (Parks, Esplanades, Zoos, and Beaches)
The mystery of Central Park : A novel by Nellie Bly
Mobile botany: education, horticulture and commerce in New York botanical gardens, 1890s–1930s
Connecting to Nature Where You Live: The Beauty of Regional Parks
NEW YORK: THE EMERGENCE OF GREEN SPACE
Forest, Rock, and Stream by Nathaniel Parker Willis
Samantha at Coney Island, and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley
The Parkway in New York City, published 1987
Muses, Museums, and Memories article
The Greatest Highway in the World by New York Central Railroad Company
Chapter 6 Innovation, Industry, and Entertaining the Public: 1888–1900 chapter. On Louise Blanchard Bethune.
Theme 3: Art and Culture (Museums, Galleries, & the Highline)
Literary New York: Its Landmarks and Associations by Charles Hemstreet
Formed and Forming: Contemporary Museum Architecture
Writers of Knickerbocker New York by Hamilton Wright Mabie
The New World of the Indigenous Museum
The 1943 War Art Program article
“A Mandolin Orchestra . . . Could Attract a Lot of Attention”: Interracial Fun
Famous Givers and Their Gifts by Sarah Knowles Bolton
The Urban Spectacle: New York City, Impressionist Painting, and the Ashcan School
A World Changed? Art Museums after September 11 article.
Theme 4: Wealthy Play (Men’s Clubs, Gilded Age Galas, and Hotels)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Fifth Avenue by Arthur Bartlett Maurice
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, New York by Charles W. Snell
The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus
Theme 5: Working-Class Play (Immigrants, Bowery, Sex Work, Vaudeville)
From Farm to Fortune; or, Nat Nason’s Strange Experience by Jr. Horatio Alger
Danger! A True History of a Great City’s Wiles and Temptations by Howe and Hummel
The Color of a Great City by Theodore Dreiser. Note the illustrations!
Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by George J. Kneeland
Harlequin and Columbine by Booth Tarkington
Old Taverns of New York by W. Harrison Bayles
“Tramps in the Making”: The Troubling Itinerancy of America’s News Peddlers
Bowery Life by Chuck Connors
Beyond the Nickelodeon: Cinemagoing, Everyday Life and Identity Politics
Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement life in New York City by Jacob A. Riis
Theme 6: Majesty, Mystique, and Malls
Negro life in New York’s Harlem : A lively picture of a popular and…
Consumers’ Cooperative Societies in New York State text
Sketches of Gotham by Ike Swift
ONE HEARS OF NEGRO COUNTRY CLUBS: Golfing the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance
Navigating A Queer New York, book chapter
Orderly Bodies: Dancing New York, 1900–1914
