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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Making Do | 11 |
Good and Bad Dwellings | 32 |
The First Generation of New York Apartments | 62 |
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