New York Streetscapes: Tales of Manhattan's Significant Buidlings and Landmarks

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Harry N. Abrams, May 1, 2003 - Architecture - 448 pages
Christopher Gray's engaging tales of historic Gotham locales transport readers back in time for a stroll through the streets of old New York. The noted architectural historian, who writes the popular "Streetscapes" column in The New York Times, here gathers 190 of the best-loved of those columns to captivate readers with his wealth of information about sites and buildings and the intriguing lives of the people connected to them. From the Bridge Cafe (New York's oldest surviving bar) on Water Street to the Revolutionary War-era Morris-Jumel Mansion in upper Manhattan, Gray turns the spotlight on both obscure and familiar landmarks, and each of his witty, urbane essays is illustrated with at least one period photograph, Gray's vast enthusiasm and love for New York's vast architecture is evident in all that he writes, as is his concern for the preservation of the city's architectural treasures.

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About the author (2003)

Christopher Stewart Gray was born in Kansas City, Missouri on April 24, 1950. He received a bachelor's degree in art history from the School of General Studies at Columbia University in 1975. Soon afterward, he opened the Office for Metropolitan History. This was a research bureau for hire that determined a building's provenance by poring over deeds, street atlases, directories, microfilm, and old photographs. He began writing a column for Avenue magazine in 1980 and another one for House and Garden in 1982. He wrote the Streetscapes column in The New York Times from 1987 to 2014. A collection of his columns entitled New York Streetscapes: Tales of Manhattan's Significant Buildings and Landmarks was published in 2003. He died from pneumonia complicated by an unspecified underlying illness on March 10, 2017 at the age of 66.

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TitleNew York Streetscapes: Tales of Manhattan's Significant Buidlings and Landmarks
AuthorsChristopher Gray, Suzanne Braley
Editionillustrated
PublisherHarry N. Abrams, 2003
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedNov 16, 2007
ISBN0810944413, 9780810944411
Length448 pages
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