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NEW YORK CITY
THE FIVE BOROUGHS
A PHOTOGRAPHIC TOUR
N'ew York City is known for its towering skyscrapers, world-class tlieaters and museums, honking taxis, and bustling crowds. But it is so much more. It is a smoky jazz club in Harlem, an All Saints' Day feast in Queens, an extra-innings baseball game in the Bronx, a thrill-seeker's dream in Brooklyn's Coney Island. Ever since the isle of Manhattan expanded its domain back in the 1890s, this megalopolis of five boroughs has encompassed a surprising mélange of neighborhoods, cultures, styles, and outlooks.
In a stunning celebration of New York and its boroughs, renowned photographer Carol M. Highsmith captures the diversity of this sprawling city in more than one hundred spectacular images. This aU-new photographic tour captures the best of New York and its environs, including architectural landmarks like Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral and the wedge-shaped Flatiron Building, bustling Times Square... Tovább

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NEW YORK CITY
THE FIVE BOROUGHS
A PHOTOGRAPHIC TOUR
N'ew York City is known for its towering skyscrapers, world-class tlieaters and museums, honking taxis, and bustling crowds. But it is so much more. It is a smoky jazz club in Harlem, an All Saints' Day feast in Queens, an extra-innings baseball game in the Bronx, a thrill-seeker's dream in Brooklyn's Coney Island. Ever since the isle of Manhattan expanded its domain back in the 1890s, this megalopolis of five boroughs has encompassed a surprising mélange of neighborhoods, cultures, styles, and outlooks.
In a stunning celebration of New York and its boroughs, renowned photographer Carol M. Highsmith captures the diversity of this sprawling city in more than one hundred spectacular images. This aU-new photographic tour captures the best of New York and its environs, including architectural landmarks like Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral and the wedge-shaped Flatiron Building, bustling Times Square and the frenetic New York Stock Exchange; ethnic, eclectic, and fashionable neighborhoods throughout aU five boroughs; wonderful parklands and botanical gardens; Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo in the Bronx; the Steinway piano factory and the New York Hall of Science in Queens; the stately Brooklyn Academy of Music; Staten Island's serene Snug Harbor.
A lively historical introduction and fact-filled captions by award-winning writer Ted Landphair help paint the full picture of the undisputed capital of fashion, finance, publishing, performing arts, and more. New York City: A Photographic Tour is the perfect souvenir of a memorable visit, and the ideal gift for anyone who savors the unforgettable architecture, unsurpassed cultural offerings, and sensational parklands of an eclectic metropolis that is arguably the most fascinating city in the world.
Carol M. Highsmith is a modern-day historical photographer who has captured the rebirth of Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue corridor and Union Station; the splendor of the Library of Congress, George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate, the U.S. Botanic Gardens, and the capital city's foreign embassies; and memorable restoration projects in all fifty U.S. states. She is donating her life's work to the Library of Congress, which has created the Carol M. Highsmith Archive to receive it.
Ted Landphair is a Voice of America writer and reporter who has collaborated with Highsmith on several books, including Forgotten No More, the story of the Korean War Veterans Memorial. He has won a George Foster Peabody Award and several Voice of America and New Orleans Press Club awards for writing.
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