The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their Origins
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Book Overview
The Street Book contains brief biographical sketches for more than one hundred of Manhattan's well- and lesser-known streets. With photographs, period drawings, and reproductions of old newspapers,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0910684073
ISBN13:9780910684071
Release Date:January 1978
Publisher:Hagstrom Map Co.
Length:119 Pages
Weight:0.82 lbs.
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
great little book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I love this book and bought it again as a present for a friend who, like me, is interested in New York City history. There is no fluff or filler here, just concise morsels of interesting information. This book is informative and fun!
A great primer to Manhattan's street names
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
When people think of the street names of Manhattan, they probably think of the grid and its numbered roads. WRONG! Manhattan, especially the older neighborhoods from Houston Street south to the Battery, are filled with twisting little streets whose names resonate with Manhattan's history. This is where you'll find out why Houston Street is pronounced "HOW-ston". Where did Maiden Lane get its name from? Who was Barclay? This book will tell all. My only complaint (which prevented from giving this five stars) was with the binding: it cracked almost immediately upon opening and, right now, several pages are precariously clinging to the spine. Maybe it was only the batch that mine came out of which is so weak. Still this is a very informative book. If only it can tell me why New Yorkers pronounce Avenue of the Americas as "Sixth Avenue".
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