Tenements, Towers & Trash
An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
by Julia Wertz
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appears in History, History, and Fiction.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017! Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's. In Tenements, Towers & T...
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