New York: Heart of the City [antikvár]

When visitors reach the top of New York City's two highest man-made mountains – the World Trade Center and the Empire State Building – the word that most frequently comes to mind is… incredible! First-timers will often say it out loud, but even repeat visitors or long-time residents will think it. Spread out before them is one of the world's most amazing sights. Much has happened in the nearly four centuries that transformed the Nieuw Amsterdam of Dutch colonial times into today's New York of five boroughs and seven million people. J.P. MacBean's history of the city will give visitors and native New Yorkers alike a rare perspective of this fabulous city. The more than 300 world-class photographs will delight the eye and stir the imagination. Pictured are the sky.scapers, from the „early” Flatiron Building of 1902 and the Woolworth Building of 1921 to the tower that was completed last week. Present also are spactacular views of bridges large and small, old and new, that link Manhattan to the other boroughs and „addresses” that link New York to the rest of the world: Wall Street, Madison Avenue, Sevent Avenue, 42nd Street, Broadway, Fifth Avenue, Park Anenue… The city of superlatives is also a city of ordinary streets that host block parties and parades, messengers on speeding bicycles and vendors who sell everything from chestnuts to oil paintings. NEW YORK: Heart of the City does more than celebrate the physycal sights that are world famous, it also offers glimpses of the people who give the city its vitality and spirit. In its pages you'll encounter New Yorkers crowding Rockefeller Center at Christmas, watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade, sailing toy boats in Central Park, eyeing dinosaur skeletons in the Museum of Natural History, in other words, enjoying slices of the Big Apple as often as they can. NEW YORK: Heart of the City is a unique experience in itself. This handsome, lavishly illustrated book gives readers the opportunity to return again and again to a city that has become unofficially but unmistakably, the business, cultural, and entertainment capital of the world.