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A guidebook and history of Manhattan includes twenty-five episodes from New York history and offers walking tours for such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village, Astor Place, Harlem, and Chinatown.
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The history of New York City is written in its streets; uncover it withChronicles of Old New York. Discover 400 years of innovation through the true stories of the visionaries, risk-takers, dreamers, and schemers who built Manhattan. Witness life during the city’s earliest days, when Greenwich Village was a bucolic suburb and disease was a fact of daily life. Find out which park covers a sea of unmarked graves. Explore the city’s dark side, from the slums of Five Points to Harlem’s Prohibition-era speakeasies. Then see it all for yourself with guided walking tours of each of Manhattan’s historic neighborhoods, illustrated with color photographs and period maps.
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