Race to the Sky
American Skyscrapers and New York becoming a premier world city in the early 20th century
Chrysler Building
740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building is a non-fiction book by American writer Michael Gross. The book was initially published on October 18, 2005 by Broadway Books. The book concentrates on the 19-floor, Art Deco luxury cooperative 740 Park Avenue designed by Rosario Candela and Arthur Loomis Harmon in 1929 and on several generations of the superrich who have lived there since its construction on the peak of the Great Depression.
The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter is an illustrated book by American architecture historian Andrew Alpern. The book was initially published on February 2, 2002, by Acanthus Press. The book discusses the works of prominent New York architects of the 1920s and 1930s, Rosario Candela and J. E. R. Carpenter, who helped shape whole blocks in Manhattan. Their buildings are now the standard residentials of the New York's elite. The book contains a large number of photos and original floorplans of the discussed buildings, and several essays.
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge - David McCullough
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels Jill Jonnes
The Wall Street Crash of 1929
Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
City of dreams : the 400-year epic history of immigrant New York
Forgotten New York : views of a lost metropolis
The historical atlas of New York City : a visual celebration of 400 years of New York City's history by Homberger, Eric (maps and diagrams, good for boys)
Comic books, Superman; Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman
Henry Miller - Moloch
Gentile New York: The Images of Non-Jews among Jewish Immigrants - Gil Ribak
Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920
Modernity and coffeehouse culture - A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture
Biography:
Robert Moses - The Power Broker
Alfred Kazin - Walker in the city