a history of New York City in thirteen miles
"In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside it. What was once New Amsterdam became New York, and farmlands gradually gave way to department stores, theaters, hotels, and, finally, the perpetual traffic of the twentieth century's Great White Way. From Bowling Green all the way up to Marble Hill, . . . takes us on a mile-by-mile journey up America's most vibrant and complex thoroughfare, through the history at theheart of Manhattan"--Provided by publisher.
