Description: This work is both a biography and an architectural history of a city within a city spiced with lively anecdotes. Any estate agent or restauranteur will tell you that the Upper West Side is "hot"; but despite what recent urban trends suggest, it was not discovered by a band of Young Urban Professionals in the 1980s. Dutch farmers with names like Theunis Idens (he lived on what would be West End Avenue and 97th Street) and Egbert Woutersen settled it 300 years ago. The names of later residents are much more familiar: William Tecumseh Sherman, U.S. Grant, Flo Ziegfeld, Humphrey Bogart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arturo Toscanini, William Randolph Hearst, Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Leonard Bernstein and John Lennon. Peter Salwen tells the whole story, from the colonial merchants whose mansions commanded views of the lordly Hudson to the 19th century, when the Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum at 116th and Broadway (now the site of Columbia University) was a prime tourist attraction; from the turn of the century, when "The West End" became synonymous with fashionable society through 50 years of decline to today's galloping renaissance.
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Book Series: Historical
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Features: Illustrated
Original Language: English
Book Title: Upper West Side Story : a History and Guide
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Abbeville Press, Incorporated
Topic: United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)
Publication Year: 1993
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, History
Item Weight: 20.1 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Peter Salwen
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
