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All Around the Town: Amazing Manhattan Facts and Curiosities
by Patrick Bunyan
Binding: Hardcover, 1st edition, 362 pages
Publisher: Fordham University Press
List Price: USD $65.00
Weight: 224
Dimension: H: 0.75 x L: 9.4 x W: 0.63 inches
ISBN 10: 0823219402
ISBN 13: 9780823219407
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Book Description:
Where in Manhattan did Washington sleep? Where was Teddy Roosevelt born? Where di John Tyler get married? Where did James Monroe die? Where did Lincoln and Grant lie in state? These Manhattan presidential sites are among more than 2,000 fascinating entries compromising All Around the Town: Amazing Manhattan Facts and Curiousities, the definitive guide to historic New York. All Around the Town brings the city's history to life, street by street, building by building, in all its diversity. What oher book leads us to the birthplace of the 'Twist,' or where Patty Hearst hid out, or the site of the country's first traffic fatality.? The entries, organized in an easy to use format by street address, were culled from a number of sources histories, biographies, newspapers, guidebooks, and maps. They range from amusing anecdotes to familiar and not so familiar historical events from the Dutch New Amsterdam period to the present day. The events that occurred on these sites reflect not only the story of New York City, but the story of the United States as well.

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