Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (The History of NYC Series)

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Brooklyn, then the 4th largest city in the country, voted affirmatively by a margin of just 277 votes.

The monies made by Southern planters and Boston merchants flowed to the island, which was shortly and briefly the capital of an independent country after a long war also fought there. In the meantime, it became the terminus for the canals connecting with the North and Midwest, then for the railways that spanned the American continent, the biggest abattoir before Chicago came up, the center for the gold rush and the eventual starting point for the war with Spain and American global power.The Gotham Book Mart served as a meeting point for the James Joyce Society and the Finnegan's Wake Society. Dynamic, creative, and a magnet for people all over the world, NYC is always in the process of reinventing itself. Having the right marketing services would give your work a chance to capture a bigger target market.

Brown published Gorey's works, and Gorey was also involved in the production of promotional material for the Gotham Book Mart. The coverage is exhausting, the reading of sources nuanced; this is no straight trajectory to the top for America's best-loved and most-vilified city. Their typefaces shaped the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Joe Biden; they’re on the cornerstone of One World Trade Center and on every iPhone ever made.

I began reading this book several years ago, put it down for a while, and picked it up again a few months ago. These are the cast bronze numbers that give office doorways their authority, and the markings on cornerstones whose neutral and equable style defies the passage of time. Such a comprehensive review inevitably leads to a feeling that some communities--African-Americans, immigrants, the vanished Lenape--are underrepresented. Reading this book has been a labor of love that has taken a few years because there is so much information and analysis packed into it.