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The New York Nobody Knows
- Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
- By: William B. Helmreich
- Narrated by: Mark Cabus
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs - an astonishing 6,000 miles.
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A real inspiration
- By george sutherland on 16-01-25
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The New York Nobody Knows
- Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
- Narrated by: Mark Cabus
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-10-13
- Language: English
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The Killing Fields of East New York
- The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood
- By: Stacy Horn
- Narrated by: EJ Lavery
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s and a long history of white-collar crime slowly devastated East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood that would come to be known as the Killing Fields. On...
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The Killing Fields of East New York
- The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood
- Narrated by: EJ Lavery
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 11-08-25
- Language: English
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The Mole People
- Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
- By: Jennifer Toth
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people, living alone and in communities, in subway tunnels, and below subway platforms. It is about how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the "topside" world they've left behind.
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Very Interesting but a bit odd
- By Ali on 01-08-21
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The Mole People
- Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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Dear New York
- Voices From The City
- By: Brandon Stanton
- Narrated by: Brandon Stanton, Full Cast Audio
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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A dramatic reading of stories and quotations from Brandon Stanton’s photography book Dear New York, the inspiration for the groundbreaking Grand Central Station installation. While the book pairs photographs with firsthand accounts from their subjects, this audio companion features different...
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Dear New York
- Voices From The City
- Narrated by: Brandon Stanton, Full Cast Audio
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 06-10-25
- Language: English
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Kings of the Garden
- The New York Knicks and Their City
- By: Adam J. Criblez
- Narrated by: John Guccion
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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In Kings of the Garden, Adam J. Criblez traces the fall and rise of the New York Knicks between the 1973, the year they won their last NBA championship, and 1985, when the organization drafted Patrick Ewing and gave their fans hope after a decade of frustrations. During these years, the teams led by Walt Frazier, Earl Monroe, Bob McAdoo, Spencer Haywood, and Bernard King never achieved tremendous on-court success, and their struggles mirrored those facing New York City over the same span.
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Kings of the Garden
- The New York Knicks and Their City
- Narrated by: John Guccion
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-08-24
- Language: English
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Back from the Brink
- Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop
- By: Peter Moskos
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From the 1970s to the early 1990s, New York City was seen, justifiably, as out of control. The city approached bankruptcy, the subways were covered with graffiti, and murders were at a record high. Right-wing fearmongering and vigilante justice were countered by liberal pleas to end poverty and provide drug treatment—none of which happened. Then, in a surprising break from the past, new NYPD leadership decided to focus on crime. Between 1993 and 1996, New York City's murder numbers were cut in half, dropping to under 1,000 for the first time in decades.
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Back from the Brink
- Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 24-06-25
- Language: English
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Empire City
- The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape
- By: David M. Scobey
- Narrated by: Jim Feldman
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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Empire City tells the story of the dreams that inspired the changes in the landscape and the problems that eluded solution. Author David Scobey paints a remarkable panorama of New York's uneven development, a city-building process careening between obsessive calculation and speculative excess. Envisioning a new kind of national civilization, “bourgeois urbanists” attempted to make New York the nation's pre-eminent city.
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Empire City
- The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape
- Narrated by: Jim Feldman
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-09-14
- Language: English
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City of Fortune
- Inequality and the Making of Contemporary New York
- By: Mason B. Williams
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 12 hrs
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Postwar New York City famously expired in a tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” The city reemerged from the ashes to reach new heights, whether in stock averages or the gleaming pencil towers punctuating midtown. But at ground level, the city’s basic institutions—its housing, its schools, its public safety—were cracking. The city was rebuilt on a foundation of deep inequality.
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City of Fortune
- Inequality and the Making of Contemporary New York
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 21-07-26
- Language: English
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How the Other Half Lives
- Studies Among the Tenements of New York
- By: Jacob A. Riis
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to How the Other Half Lives and learn about the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century had to endure.
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How the Other Half Lives
- Studies Among the Tenements of New York
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-09-22
- Language: English
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Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
- By: Philip Mark Plotch
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transit services all across the city. With his extraordinary access to powerful players and internal documents, Philip Mark Plotch reveals why the city's subway system, once the best in the world, is now too often unreliable, overcrowded, and uncomfortable. Last Subway offers valuable lessons in how governments can overcome political gridlock and enormous obstacles to build grand projects.
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Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-08-20
- Language: English
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A Block in Time
- A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street
- By: Christiane Bird
- Narrated by: Alex Picard
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
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Bloomsbury presents A Block in Time by Christiane Bird, read by Alex Picard. Gotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single block in Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present. This is the story of New York City, told through the prism of one...
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A Block in Time
- A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street
- Narrated by: Alex Picard
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-03-22
- Language: English
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Hello (And Goodbye) To All That
- A Memoir of a Changing New York in the 21st Century
- By: Jonathan Liebson
- Narrated by: Andrew Gibson
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Raised in suburban Chicago, Jonathan Liebson grew up hearing fabled stories about his father's childhood in New York. The Manhattan and Queens of his father's past, and the Lower East Side of his immigrant grandfather, always shimmered in the background—until one day Jonathan finally moved...
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Hello (And Goodbye) To All That
- A Memoir of a Changing New York in the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Andrew Gibson
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 29-07-25
- Language: English
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New York Sports: Glamour and Grit in the Empire City
- Sport, Culture, and Society
- By: Stephen Norwood
- Narrated by: Dean Collins
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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New York has long been both America’s leading cultural center and its sports capital, with far more championship teams, intracity World Series, and major prizefights than any other city. New York Sports collects the work of 14 leading sport historians, providing new insight into the social and cultural history of America’s major metropolis and of the United States.
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New York Sports: Glamour and Grit in the Empire City
- Sport, Culture, and Society
- Narrated by: Dean Collins
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-09-19
- Language: English
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Names of New York
- Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names
- By: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
- Narrated by: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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"A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this fascinating journey through the names of New York City’s streets and parks, boroughs...
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Thoughtful and insightful.
- By J L Thomas on 08-06-24
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Names of New York
- Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names
- Narrated by: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 13-04-21
- Language: English
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The Women Who Made New York
- By: Julie Scelfo, Hallie Heald
- Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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An illuminating, elegant history of New York City, told through the stories of the women who made it the most exciting and influential metropolis in the world Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political leaders and men who were...
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The Women Who Made New York
- Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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Feral City
- On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
- By: Jeremiah Moss
- Narrated by: Jeremiah Moss
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Author, social critic, and “New York City’s career elegist” (New York Times), Jeremiah Moss felt alienated in a town that had become suburbanized and sanitized. Then lockdown launched an unprecedented urban experiment: What happens when an entire social class abandons the city? Out in streets made vibrant by New Yorkers left behind, Moss found a sense of freedom he never thought possible.
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Feral City
- On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
- Narrated by: Jeremiah Moss
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 04-10-22
- Language: English
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Making Rent in Bed-Stuy
- A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City
- By: Brandon Harris
- Narrated by: Brandon Massey
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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A young African American millennial filmmaker s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with "the serious...
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Making Rent in Bed-Stuy
- A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City
- Narrated by: Brandon Massey
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
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Designing Gotham
- West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
- By: Jon Scott Logel
- Narrated by: Mark Kamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the center of American commerce and culture. Although this important urban transformation is well documented, the critical role of select Union soldiers turned New York engineers has, until now, remained largely unexplored.
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Designing Gotham
- West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
- Narrated by: Mark Kamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 14-08-17
- Language: English
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The Battle for Gotham
- New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
- By: Roberta Brandes Gratz
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York’s master builder Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses.
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The Battle for Gotham
- New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 19-03-14
- Language: English
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The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
- Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
- By: Suleiman Osman
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers a groundbreaking history of this unexpected transformation.
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The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
- Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 29-01-14
- Language: English
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