Alone Together: A History of New York's Early ApartmentsTwentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second half of the nineteenth century, middle-class apartments in Manhattan were a new—and somewhat suspect—architectural form. Alone Together presents a history of the "invention" of New York apartment houses. |
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Contents
Making Do | 11 |
Good and Bad Dwellings | 32 |
The First Generation of New York Apartments | 62 |
At Home in the First Apartment Houses | 104 |
The Family Flat Grows Up | 128 |
The Modern Apartment House | 172 |
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| Title | Alone Together: A History of New York's Early Apartments |
| Author | Elizabeth C. Cromley |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0801486130, 9780801486135 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) |
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