Forgotten New York Views Of A Lost Metropolis [Paperback]

Forgotten New Yorkis your passport to more than 300 years of history, architecture, and memories hidden in plain sight.

Houses dating to the first Dutch settlers on Staten Island; yellow brick roads in Brooklyn; clocks embedded in the sidewalk in Manhattan; bishop's crook lampposts in Queens; and a white elephant in the Bronx—this is New York and this is your guide to seeing it all.Forgotten New Yorkcovers all five boroughs with easy-to-use maps and suggested routes to hundreds of out-of-the way places, antiquated monuments, streets to nowhere, and buildings from a time lost.

Forgotten New Yorkfeatures:

• Quiet Places
• Truly Forgotten
• History Happened Here
• What Is This Thing?
• Forgotten People
• And so much more

This is a wonderful guide to Gotham old and new by someone who really knows his stuff. Invaluable!Instantly my favorite guide to the city. Walsh has a phenomenal eye and an almost fanatical attention to detail.There are no more nooks nor crannies in NYC left to find hidden gems. Kevin Walsh has found them all.