Hilton Als

Museum of the City of New York

Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Museum of the City of New York and the centennial of the consolidation of the city's five borroughs. The rich visual tale (portraits, views, prints, and photographs spanning four centuries) is interwoven with essays by noted New York City authors on such themes as architecture and urbanism, fashion, theater, cultural diversity, and parks and open spaces. Commentaries by the Museum's staff on the illustrations offer a unique perspective on the city's unique history of urban growth and dynamism. Includes an index of the illustrations but not of the essays. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Images and Stories from the Museum of the City of New York

Our Town

Donald Albrecht

Cecil Beaton

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of the City of New York, October 2011-March 2012.

The New York Years

Marshall McLuhan

Jacques Barzun

New York State Council on the Arts

Harley Parker

Exploration of the Ways, Means, and Values of Museum Communication with the Viewing Public

Jacob August Riis

This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of early American photography. Captured on film by photographer, journalist, and reformer Jacob Riis, more than 100 grim scenes reveal man's struggle to survive.

Studies Among the Tenements of New York

How the Other Half Lives

Based on the award-winning, critically acclaimed exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, New York at Its Core takes readers on a whirlwind journey through the 400-year history of the five boroughs to find out how a striving village on the periphery of the Dutch trading empire became the booming metropolis that is today¿s capital of the world. New York at Its Core finds the key in four defining themes that have shaped the city since its inception: money, diversity, density, and creativity. This lavishly illustrated book features nearly 400 objects and images from the one-of-a-kind exhibition, revealing how these themes evolved and interacted to create the city we know today, a subject of fascination the world over visited by millions of people every year. Covering New York¿s entire 400-year history and inviting a look into the city¿s future, New York at Its Core chronicles the cycles of crisis and reinvention that gave rise to one of the world¿s most diverse and densely populated places, a city that has shaped the course of events for the nation and the world.

400 Years of New York City History

New York at Its Core

Museum of the City of New York

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