GENERAL BOOKS ON NEW YORK CITY
ONLINE STATISTICAL INFORMATION for NEW YORK CITY
INFORMATION BY BOROUGH: Queens | Brooklyn | Manhattan | Bronx | Staten Island
AIA Guide to New York City. 4th ed. New York: Crown, 2000.
Reference (Non-Circulating) NA 735 .N5 A78 2000
Stacks (previous edition, 3rd) NA
735 .N5 A78 1988
Burns, Eric, and James Sanders.New York: An Illustrated History. Expanded Ed. New York: Knopf, 2003.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.3 .N585 2003
Stacks F 128.3 .N585 2003
Burrows, Edwin. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.3 .B82 1999
Stacks F 128.3 .B82 1999
Community District Needs. New York: New York City Department of City Planning, 2001-
Reference (Non-Circulating) HT 168 .N5 S73
Deak, Gloria-Gilda. Picturing New York: The City from its Beginning to the Present. New York: Columbia UP, 2000.
Stacks F 128.3 .D38 2000
The Encyclopedia of New York City. New York: Yale UP, 1995.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.3 .E75 1995
Goldstone, Harmon H. History Preserved : a Guide to New York City Landmarks and Historic Districts. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F128.7 .G64 1974
Goodfriend, Joyce D. Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.
Stacks F 122 .G643 1992
Homberger, Eric. The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York City's History. New York: Holt, 1994.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.3 .H65 1994
If you're thinking of living in-: all about 115 great neighborhoods in and around New York, edited by Michael J. Leahy. New York: Random, 1999.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.18 .I34 1999
Janvier, Thomas A. In Old New York: A Classic History of New York City.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Stacks F 128.4 .J35 2000
Lankevich, George J. American Metropolis: A History of New York City. New York: New York UP, 1998.
Stacks F 128.3 .L355 1998
Plan for New York City, 1969: A proposal. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1969.
Reference (Non-Circulating) Oversize HT 168 .N5 A5
Although dated, these plans have historical summaries of neighborhoods for each borough in New York. An excellent starting point.
Romita, Paul. New York City Mission Society. Chicago, IL.: Arcadia, 2003.
Stacks BV2805 .N5 .R69 2003
Sacks, Marcy S. Before Harlem : The Black experience in New York City before World War I. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2006.
Stacks F128.9 .N4S33 2006
CITI Make a Map: The Community Information Technology Initiative (CITI), a project of the Municipal Art Society, allows users to create neighborhood-based maps coupled with a large array of statistical information including a community district profile
Infoshare Online, a statistical database which allows you to create a profile for your area by borough, zip code, city council district, community district, school district, etc. The three areas you can search are population trends from the last two census, in this case 1990 and 2000, socio-economic, and health statistics. A very powerful tool to find up-to-date statistics on a specific neighborhood of New York. Available through the library's home page by clicking on "Online Research", then Statistics, then Infoshare
The Museum of the City of New York will give you Web-based information about various neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs.
My Neighborhood
http://www.nyc.gov/html/ops/html/home/home.shtml and then go to My Neighborhood on the right.
New York City Department of City Planning offers statistics for community districts by boroughs. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/lucds/cdstart.shtml
NYCdata features all sorts of New York City-related data, from income, to banking, to sports.
Queens Chamber of Commerce
http://queenschamber.org
You can also access the Library's periodical databases Ebscohost and
Lexis-Nexis for information found in magazines/journals or newspapers.
Start from the Library's homepage at http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/library/
then click either on the icon Ebscohost for magazines or the icon
Lexis-Nexis for full-text newspapers. From home, you will need to
logon with your school e-mail address. Follow the directions on the
log-in screen that will pop up before you get to the actual database.
INFORMATION BY BOROUGH
Forgotten New York, Astoria on the Web
http://www.forgotten-ny.com
Greater Astoria Historical Society
http://astorialic.org
Kaplan, Lawrence. Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York. New York: Columbia UP, 2003
Stacks F 129 .R8 K37 2003
Khandelwal, Madhulika S. Becoming American, Being Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002.
Stacks F128.9 .E2 K47 2002
Klaus, Susan L. A modern Arcadia : Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. & the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2002.
Stacks HT169.57 .U62 N75 2001
LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, Room E238. Also available at http://www.laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu
Lehrer, Warren. Crossing the Boulevard: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America. New York: Norton, 2003.
Stacks JV7050 .Q44 L45 2003
Media CD-ROM 711BK
http://www.crossingtheblvd.org
Lieberman, Janet. City Limits: A Social History of Queens. Dubupqu, IA : Kendall/Hunt, 1983.
Stacks F 128.68 .Q4 L44 1983
Long Island City. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2004.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F129 .L78 L66 2004
Queens Chamber of Commerce
http://queenschamber.org
Reichstein, Steve. Discovering Queens!: A Useful Guide to Queens. New York : Stephen P., 2000.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.68 .Q4 R45 2000
Stacks F 128.68 .Q4 .R45 2000
The Queens Historical Society "researches, records and showcases issues that have had a profound impact on the history of Queens."
Seyfried, Vincent, and William Asadorian. Old Queens, N.Y. in Early Photographs. New York: Dover, 1991.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.68 .Q4 S49 1991
Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce
http://www.sunnysidechamber.org
Tobón, Orlando. Jackson Heights Chronicles : When Crossing the Border Isn't Enough. New York: Atria Books, 2006.
Reserves PQ8180.43 .O36 C7613 2006
Abramovitch, Ilana, and Sean Galvin, eds. Jews of Brooklyn. Hanover, NH: UP of New England [for] Brandeis UP, 2002.
Stacks F129 .B71 .J49 2002
Brooklyn Historical Society - A look at various Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Freudenheim, Ellen. Brooklyn!: A Soup-to-nuts Guide to Sights, Neighborhoods, and Restaurants. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 129 .B7 F73 1999
Glueck, Grace, and Paul Gardner. Brooklyn: People, Places, Past and Present. New York: Abrams, 1991.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 129 .B7 G58 1991
Jackson, Kenneth. The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn. New York: Citizens Committee for New York City ; New Haven : Yale UP, 1998.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 129 .B7 N44 1998
Linder, Marc. Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1999.
Stacks F 129 .B7 L6 1999
Ment, David, and Mary S. Donovan. The People of Brooklyn: A History of Two Neighborhoods. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Educational & Cultural Alliance, 1980.
Stacks F 128.68 .B43 M46
Pritchett, Wendell E. Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2002.
Stacks F 129 .B7 P75 2002
Robbins, Michael, ed. Brooklyn: A State of Mind. New York: Workman, 2001
Stacks F 129 .B7 B6525 2001
Scher, Philip W. Carnival and the Formation of a Caribbean Transnation. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 2003.
Stacks GT4229 .T7 .S24 2003
Snyder-Grenier, Ellen. Brooklyn! An Illustrated History. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1996.
Stacks F 129 .B7 S69 1996
After the World Trade Center : Rethinking New York City. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Stacks NA 9127 .N5 A25 2002
Anbinder, Tyler. Five Points : The 19th-century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum. New York : Free Press, 2001.
Stacks F 128.68 .F56 A53 2001
Dolkart, Andrew. Touring the Upper East Side: Walks in Five Historic Districts. New York: New York Landmarks Conservancy, 1995.
Stacks F 128.68 .U63 D65 1995
Glanz, James. City in the Sky : the Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center. New York: Times Books, 2003.
Stacks NA6233 .N5 W6742 2003
Goldberger, Paul. Up from Zero : Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York. New York: Random House, 2004.
Stacks NA6233 .N5 W6745 2004
Marberry, Craig. Spirit of Harlem : a Portrait of America's Most Exciting Neighborhood. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
Stacks F128.68 .H3 M29 2003
McFarland, Gerald W. Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2001.
Stacks F 128.68 .G8 M37 2001
Sagalyn, Lynne B. Times Square Roulette : Remaking the City Icon. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.
Stacks HT 168 .N5 S24 2001
Salwen, Peter. Upper West Side story : a History and Guide. New York: Abbeville, 1989.
Stacks F 128.68 .U67 S35 1989b
Stephens, Suzanne. Imagining Ground Zero : Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site. New York: Architectural Record, 2004.
Stacks NA6233 .N5 S74 2004
Upper West Side.
http://www.nysite.com
A Walk Through Harlem with David Hartman and Historian Barry Lewis [videorecording],
New York: Thirteen/WNET, 1999.
Media VHS 1434
Webber, Thomas L. Flying Over 96th Street : Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy. New York: Scribner, 2004.
Stacks F128.68 .H3 W43 2004
The Bronx [videorecording], witten, produced, directed, and filmed by Brent Owens. New York: Filmakers Library, 1989.
Media VHS 420
Bronx County Historical Society - Includes historical information about the Bronx.
Gonzalez, Evelyn Diaz. The Bronx. New York: Columbia UP, 2004.
Stacks F128.68 .B8 G66 2004
Jonnes, Jill. South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City. 2nd ed. New York: Fordham UP, 2002.
Stacks F128.68 .B8 J65 2002
Rooney, Jim. Organizing the South Bronx. Albany: State U of New York P, 1995.
Stacks HN 80 .N5 R66 1995
Ultan, Lloyd. Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough. New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 2000
Stacks PS 549 .N5 B86 2000
Historic Richmond Town is the historical society for Staten Island.
Prepared by Prof. F. Egger-Sider 9/28/04
Updated 2/13/08