Research Guide: New York Neighborhoods

ONLINE STATISTICAL INFORMATION for NEW YORK CITY

INFORMATION BY BOROUGH: Queens | Brooklyn | Manhattan | Bronx | Staten Island

GENERAL BOOKS ON NEW YORK CITY

AIA Guide to New York City. 4th ed. New York: Crown, 2000.
Reference (Non-Circulating) NA 735 .N5 A78 2000
Stacks (previous edition, 3rd) NA 735 .N5 A78 1988

Berger, Joseph. The World in a City : Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York. New York : Ballantine Books, 2007.
Stacks F 128.55 .B46 2007

Burns, Ric, and James Sanders.New York: An Illustrated History. Expanded Ed. New York: Knopf, 2003. Based on a PBS production "New York: a documentary film" directed by Ric Bruns.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.3 .N585 2003
Stacks F 128.3 .N585 2003

Burrows, Edwin. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.3 .B82 1999
Stacks F 128.3 .B82 1999

A city of immigrants : dreams and realities of life in New York, 1840-2007. Long Island City, N.Y. : LaGuardia Community College/CUNY, LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, c2007.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.9 .A1 C57 2007

Community District Needs. New York: New York City Department of City Planning, 2001-
Reference (Non-Circulating) HT 168 .N5 S73

Deak, Gloria-Gilda. Picturing New York: The City from its Beginning to the Present. New York: Columbia UP, 2000.
Stacks F 128.3 .D38 2000

Diamonstein, Barbaralee. The Landmarks of New York III. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
Reference (Non-Circulating)F 128.7 .D57 1998

The Encyclopedia of New York City. New York: Yale UP, 1995.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.3 .E75 1995

Feirstein, Sanna. Naming New York: Manhattan Places and How They Got Their Names. New York: New York UP, 2001.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.67 .A1 F45 2001

Forgotten New York, Neighborhoods
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/NEIGHBORHOODS/neighborhoodhomepage/neighborhoods.html

Fried, Frederick. New York Civic Sculpture: a Pictorial Guide. New York : Dover Publications, 1976.
Stacks NB 235 .N5 F75 1976

Goldstone, Harmon H. History Preserved : a Guide to New York City Landmarks and Historic Districts. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F128.7 .G64 1974

Goodfriend, Joyce D. Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.
Stacks F 122 .G643 1992

Harrison, Marina. Artwalks in New York: Delightful Discoveries of Public Art and Gardens in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. New York : New York University Press, 2004.
Stacks N 8845 .N7 H3 2004

Homberger, Eric. The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York City's History. New York: Holt, 1994.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.3 .H65 1994

Homberger, Eric. New York City: a Cultural History. Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2008.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.3 .H66 2008
Stacks F 128.3 .H66 2008

If you're thinking of living in-: all about 115 great neighborhoods in and around New York, edited by Michael J. Leahy. New York: Random, 1999.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.18 .I34 1999

Janvier, Thomas A. In Old New York: A Classic History of New York City.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Stacks F 128.4 .J35 2000

New York, a Documentary Film [videorecording], Alexandria, Va.: PBS Home Video, 2004.
Media DVD 268 Pt. 1-8

Plan for New York City, 1969: A proposal. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1969.
Reference (Non-Circulating) Oversize HT 168 .N5 A5
Although dated, these plans have historical summaries of neighborhoods for each borough in New York. An excellent starting point.

Reynolds, Donald M. Monuments and Masterpieces: Histories and Views of Public Sculpture in New York City. New York : Macmillan Pub. Co., 1988.
Stacks NA 9350 .N5 R49 1988

Romita, Paul. New York City Mission Society. Chicago, IL.: Arcadia, 2003.
Stacks BV2805 .N5 .R69 2003

Sacks, Marcy S. Before Harlem : The Black experience in New York City before World War I. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2006.
Stacks F128.9 .N4S33 2006

The Statue of Liberty Revisited: Making a Universal Symbol. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
Stacks F 128.64 .L6 S73 1994

Whitehead, Colson. The Colossus of New York: a City in Thirteen Parts. New York : Anchor Books, 2004.
Stacks F 128.55 .W54 2004

The WPA Guide to New York City : the Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s New York. New York: Pantheon Books, [1982].
Stacks F 128.18 .N375 1982

Zibart, Eve. The Unofficial Guide to New York City. New Jersey : Wiley, 2006.
Stacks F 128.18 .U56 2006

ONLINE STATISTICAL INFORMATION for NEW YORK CITY

CITI Make a Map: The Community Information Technology Initiative (CITI), a project of the Municipal Art Society, allows users to create neighborhood-based maps coupled with a large array of statistical information including a community district profile

Infoshare Online, a statistical database which allows you to create a profile for your area by borough, zip code, city council district, community district, school district, etc. The three areas you can search are population trends from the last two census, in this case 1990 and 2000, socio-economic, and health statistics. A very powerful tool to find up-to-date statistics on a specific neighborhood of New York. Available through the library's home page by clicking on "Online Research", then Statistics, then Infoshare

The Museum of the City of New York will give you Web-based information about various neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs.

My Neighborhood
http://www.nyc.gov/html/ops/html/home/home.shtml and then go to My Neighborhood on the right.

New York City Department of City Planning offers statistics for community districts by boroughs. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/lucds/cdstart.shtml

NYCdata features all sorts of New York City-related data, from income, to banking, to sports.

Queens Chamber of Commerce
http://queenschamber.org

You can also access the Library's periodical databases Ebscohost and Lexis-Nexis for information found in magazines/journals or newspapers. Start from the Library's homepage at http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/library/ then click either on the icon Ebscohost for magazines or the icon Lexis-Nexis for full-text newspapers. From home, you will need to logon with your school e-mail address. Follow the directions on the log-in screen that will pop up before you get to the actual database.

INFORMATION BY BOROUGH

Queens

Copquin, Claudia Gryvatz. The Neighborhoods of Queens. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.68 .Q4 C67 2007
Stacks F 128.68 .Q4 C67 2007

Greater Astoria Historical Society http://astorialic.org

Imperato, Pascal James. Tudor Village : the History of a Unique Community in Queens County, New York. New York: Kilima House Publishers, 2004.
Stacks F 128.68 .T84 I56 2004

The International Express: Ethnic Communities Along the IRT #7 train. [videorecording], New York: Queens Council on the Arts
Media VHS 1336

Kaplan, Lawrence. Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York. New York: Columbia UP, 2003
Stacks F 129 .R8 K37 2003

Khandelwal, Madhulika S. Becoming American, Being Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002.
Stacks F128.9 .E2 K47 2002

Klaus, Susan L. A Modern Arcadia : Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. & the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2002.
Stacks HT169.57 .U62 N75 2001

LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, Room E238. Also available at http://www.laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu

Lehrer, Warren. Crossing the Boulevard: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America. New York: Norton, 2003.
Stacks JV7050 .Q44 L45 2003
Media CD-ROM 711BK
http://www.crossingtheblvd.org

Lieberman, Janet. City Limits: A Social History of Queens. Dubupqu, IA : Kendall/Hunt, 1983.
Stacks F 128.68 .Q4 L44 1983

Long Island City. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2004.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F129 .L78 L66 2004

Queens Chamber of Commerce
http://queenschamber.org

The Queens Historical Society "researches, records and showcases issues that have had a profound impact on the history of Queens."

Reichstein, Steve. Discovering Queens!: A Useful Guide to Queens. New York : Stephen P., 2000.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.68 .Q4 R45 2000
Stacks F 128.68 .Q4 .R45 2000

Ricourt, Milagros. Hispanas de Queens: Latino Panethnicity in a New York City Neighborhood. New York: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Stack F 128.9 .S75 R53 2003

The 7 Train: an Immigrant Journey. New York: Third World Newsreel, 2007.
Media DVD 355

Seyfried, Vincent, and William Asadorian. Old Queens, N.Y. in Early Photographs. New York: Dover, 1991.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.68 .Q4 S49 1991

Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce
http://www.sunnysidechamber.org

Tobon, Orlando. Jackson Heights Chronicles : When Crossing the Border Isn't Enough. New York: Atria Books, 2006.
Reserves PQ8180.43 .O36 C7613 2006

Brooklyn

Abel, Allen J. Flatbush Odyssey: a Journey Through the Heart of Brooklyn. Toronto: M & S, 1995.
Stacks F 129 .B7 A35 1995

Abramovitch, Ilana, and Sean Galvin, eds. Jews of Brooklyn. Hanover, NH: UP of New England [for] Brandeis UP, 2002.
Stacks F129 .B71 .J49 2002

Brooklyn Historical Society - A look at various Brooklyn neighborhoods.

Cudahy, Brian J. How We Got to Coney Island: the Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County . New York : Fordham University Press, 2002.
Stacks HE 4491 .N65 C8 2002

Glueck, Grace, and Paul Gardner. Brooklyn: People, Places, Past and Present. New York: Abrams, 1991.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 129 .B7 G58 1991

Immerso, Michael. Coney Island: the People's Playground. NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Stacks F 129 .C75 I46 2002

Jackson, Kenneth. The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn. New York: Citizens Committee for New York City ; New Haven : Yale UP, 1998.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 129 .B7 N44 1998

Lancaster, Clay. Old Brooklyn Heights: New York's First Suburb: Including Detailed Analyses of 619 Century-old Houses. New York: Dover Publications, 1979.
Stacks NA 7238 .B8 L36 1979

Linder, Marc. Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1999.
Stacks F 129 .B7 L6 1999

Ment, David, and Mary S. Donovan. The People of Brooklyn: A History of Two Neighborhoods. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Educational & Cultural Alliance, 1980.
Stacks F 128.68 .B43 M46

Pritchett, Wendell E. Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2002.
Stacks F 129 .B7 P75 2002

Reiss, Marcia. Greenpoint Neighborhood History Guide . New York : Brooklyn Historical Society, 2001.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 129 .B7 R44 2001

Robbins, Michael, ed. Brooklyn: A State of Mind. New York: Workman, 2001
Stacks F 129 .B7 B6525 2001

Scher, Philip W. Carnival and the Formation of a Caribbean Transnation. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 2003.
Stacks GT4229 .T7 .S24 2003

Snyder-Grenier, Ellen. Brooklyn! An Illustrated History. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1996.
Stacks F 129 .B7 S69 1996

Thabit, Walter. How East New York Became a Ghetto. New York : New York University Press, 2003.
Stacks F129 .B7 T47 2003

Willensky, Elliot. When Brooklyn Was the World, 1920-1957: an Album of Recollections, Vignettes, Images of the Years 1920 through 1957. New York: Harmony Books, 1986.
Stacks F 129 .B7 W58 1986

Younger, William Lee. Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929: 157 Prints From the Collection of the Long Island Historical Society. New York: Dover Publications, 1978.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 129 .B7 O42 1978

Manhattan

Adams, Michael Henry. Harlem, Lost and Lound : an Architectural and Social History, 1765-1915. New York : Monacelli Press, 2002.
Stacks NA 735 .N5 A33 2002

After the World Trade Center : Rethinking New York City. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Stacks NA 9127 .N5 A25 2002

Anbinder, Tyler. Five Points : The 19th-century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum. New York : Free Press, 2001.
Stacks F 128.68 .F56 A53 2001

Darton, Eric. Divided We Stand : a Biography of New York's World Trade Center. New York : Basic Books, 1999.
Stacks NA 6233 .N5 W673 1999

Dolkart, Andrew. Touring the Upper East Side: Walks in Five Historic Districts. New York: New York Landmarks Conservancy, 1995.
Stacks F 128.68 .U63 D65 1995

Gillespie, Angus K. Twin Towers : the Life of New York City's World Trade Center. N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Stacks NA 6233 .N5 W674 1999

Glanz, James. City in the Sky : the Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center. New York: Times Books, 2003.
Stacks NA6233 .N5 W6742 2003

Goldberger, Paul. Up from Zero : Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York. New York: Random House, 2004.
Stacks NA6233 .N5 W6745 2004

Harris, Luther S. Around Washington Square: an Illustrated History of Greenwich Village. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Stacks F 128.68 .G8 H37 2003

Heckscher, Morrison H. Creating Central Park. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.65 .C3 H43 2008

Kingwell, Mark. Nearest Thing to Heaven : the Empire State Building and American dreams. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2006.
Stacks F 128.8 .E46 K56 2006

Marberry, Craig. Spirit of Harlem : a Portrait of America's Most Exciting Neighborhood. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
Stacks F128.68 .H3 M29 2003

McFarland, Gerald W. Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2001.
Stacks F 128.68 .G8 M37 2001

Miller, Terry. Greenwich Village and How It Got That Way. New York: Crown Publishers, 1990.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.68 .G8 M55 1990

Sagalyn, Lynne B. Times Square Roulette : Remaking the City Icon. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.
Stacks HT 168 .N5 S24 2001

Salwen, Peter. Upper West Side story : a History and Guide. New York: Abbeville, 1989.
Stacks F 128.68 .U67 S35 1989b

Schoener, Allon, ed. Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968. New York: New Press, 1995.
Stacks F 128.68 .H3 S3 1995

Stephens, Suzanne. Imagining Ground Zero : Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site. New York: Architectural Record, 2004.
Stacks NA 6233 .N5 S74 2004

Simon, Kate. Fifth Avenue: a Very Social History. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
Stacks F 128.67 .F4 S55

Upper West Side.
http://www.nysite.com

Wagner, Geraldine B. Thirteen Months to Go : the Creation of the Empire State Building. San Diego, Calif. : Thunder Bay Press, 2003.
Stacks F 128.8 .E46 W34 2003

A Walk Through Harlem with David Hartman and Historian Barry Lewis [videorecording], New York: Thirteen/WNET, 1999.
Media VHS 1434

Webber, Thomas L. Flying Over 96th Street : Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy. New York: Scribner, 2004.
Stacks F128.68 .H3 W43 2004

Bronx

The Bronx: a Cry For Help [videorecording], written, produced, directed, and filmed by Brent Owens. New York: Filmakers Library, 1989.
Media VHS 420

Bronx County Historical Society - Includes historical information about the Bronx.

Gonzalez, Evelyn Diaz. The Bronx. New York: Columbia UP, 2004.
Stacks F128.68 .B8 G66 2004

Goodman, Fred. The Secret City : Woodlawn Cemetery and the Buried History of New York. New York : Broadway Books, 2004.
Stacks F 128.61 .W8 G66 2004

Hershkowitz, Allen. Bronx Ecology : Blueprint for a New Environmentalism. Washington, DC : Island Press, 2002.
Stacks TS161 .H46 2002

Jonnes, Jill. South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City. 2nd ed. New York: Fordham UP, 2002.
Stacks F128.68 .B8 J65 2002

Kugelberg, Johan. Born in the Bronx : a Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop. New York: Rizzoli, 2007.
Reference Desk (Non-Circulating) ML 3531 .B67 2007

Rooney, Jim. Organizing the South Bronx. Albany: State U of New York P, 1995.
Stacks HN 80 .N5 R66 1995

Rosenthal, Mel. In the South Bronx of America. Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 2000.
Stacks HN 80 .N5 R68 2000

Sullivan, Neil J. The Diamond in the Bronx : Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Stacks GV 416 .N48 S85 2001

Ultan, Lloyd. The Beautiful Bronx (1920-1950). New York: Harmony Books, 1979.
Stacks F 128.68 .B8 U57 1979

Ultan, Lloyd. Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough. New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 2000
Stacks PS 549 .N5 B86 2000

Ultan, Lloyd. The Bronx: It Was Only Yesterday, 1935-1965 . New York : Bronx County Historical Society, 1992.
Reference (Non-Circulating) F 128.68 .B8 U584 1992

Ultan, Lloyd. The Bronx in the Innocent Years, 1890-1925. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Stacks F 128.68 .B8 U583 1985

Staten Island

Historic Richmond Town is the historical society for Staten Island.

Smith, Dorothy Valentine. Staten Island; Gateway to New York. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co., 1970.
Stacks F 127 .S7 S59 1970

Staten Island advance [electronic resource]. New York: Staten Island Advance Co., 1921-
Web Resource

Prepared by Prof. F. Egger-Sider 9/28/04
Updated June 2009