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1. A tenement story : the history of the Tenement Museum

   New York, NY : Tenement Museum, [2018]

2. Four steeples over the city streets : religion and society in New York's early republic congregations

   Bulthuis, Kyle T.

   New York : New York University Press, 2014.

   In the fifty years after the Constitution wassigned in 1787, New York City grew from a port town of 30,000 to a metropolisof over half a million residents. This rapid development transformed a oncetightknit community and its religious experience. These effects were felt byTrinity Episcopal Church, which had presented itself as a uniting influence inNew York, that connected all believers in social unity in the late colonialera. As the city grew larger, more impersonal, and socially divided, churchesreformed around race and class-based neighborhoods. Trinity's original visionof uniting the commu.Tells the diverse story of four congregations in New York City as they navigated the social and political changes of the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. In the fifty years after the Constitution was signed in 1787, New York City grew from a port town of 30,000 to a metropolis of over half a million residents. This rapid development transformed a once tightknit community and its religious experience. Including four churches belonging in various forms to the Church of England, that in some form still thrive today. Rapid urban and social change connected these believers in unity in the late colonial era. As the city grew larger, more impersonal, and socially divided, churches reformed around race and class-based neighborhoods. In Four Steeples over the City Streets, Kyle T. Bulthuis examines the intertwining of these four famous institutions-Trinity Episcopal, John Street Methodist, Mother Zion African Methodist, and St. Philip's (African) Episcopal-to uncover the lived experience of these historical subjects, and just how religious experience and social change connected in the dynamic setting of early Republic New York. Drawing on a wide range of sources including congregational records and the unique histories of some of the churches leaders, Four Steeples over the City Streets reveals how these city churches responded to these transformations from colonial times to the mid-nineteenth century. Bulthuis also adds new dynamics to the stories of well-known New Yorkers such as John Jay, James Harper, and Sojourner Truth. More importantly, Four Steeples over the City Streets connects issues of race, class, and gender, urban studies, and religious experience, revealing how the city shaped these churches, and how their respective religious traditions shaped the way they reacted to the city. This book is a critical addition to the study and history of African American activism and life in the ever-changing metropolis of New York City.

   Online EBSCO Academic Comprehensive Collection

3. The epic of New York City

   Ellis, Edward Robb

   New York : Coward-McCann, 1966.

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1. 1609, the Island of Manhattan (Mannahtin) at the time of its discovery : showing its elevations, water-courses, marshes, and shore line

   MacCoun, Townsend, 1845-1932

   1909

   Relief shown by shading. Also shows the alignment of future major streets. "This map is based upon the early colonial surveys of Ratzer, Montresor,...

2. 1653-1664, Amsterdam in New Netherland : the city of the Dutch West India Company

   MacCoun, Townsend, 1845-1932

   1909

   Relief shown by hachures. Shows the footprints of some historic buildings and names them; roads and wharves are also named. "The personal names are...

3. 1730 New York, the English Colonial city

   MacCoun, Townsend, 1845-1932

   1909

   Relief shown by hachures. Shows the footprints of some historic buildings and of Fort George and names them; roads and wharves are also named. "The...