The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910

Really interesting book on New York with any interesting anecdotes. Makes me want to visit again. Also helps understand the Gilded Age show better.

Wow....I can't say enough good things about this book. I love good, meaty coffee table books, and this certainly fits the bill. The illustrations are simply dazzling. Many of the historic photos are colorized in a way I've never seen before. The cover of the book is a good example of what to expect inside....a huge picture with lots of detail painstakingly colorized that brings a real vibrancy to the work. My husband and I kind of get hypnotized staring at some of those colorized images of Mulberry street and Central Park.The actual book itself was much larger than I was expecting, and the quality of the illustrations were sharp and clear. Even the fonts in the side-bars added a wonderful period touch.And the text: Very nice! This is a whirlwind tour of NYC, so no topic has a ton of depth, but there are interesting sidebars with vignettes that provide humanizing details. I hope I don't sound like an advertisement....but for $27 you get a lot for your money. I wish there were more stunning coffee table books like this for other cities. Boston, anyone? Washington DC?

Very interesting and well researched. I love pictorial histories. The images say much more about the times. The only error I saw was the photo on page 291. That was taken in the 30s or thereabouts. The car in the middle upper part of the image was not in use - not even made- in 1900. Also the style of dress for the bystanders are clearly from a later time. Besides that very minor detail, this is a great book. Highly recommend it.

The book details the important transitions ofNew York evolving from a collection of small villages with specific economic roles to the birth of the boroughs, with their unique attributes, to the consolidation of those boroughs into the the largest city in the United States from the late 1800s to the 1920s. A fascinating history of the city.

As someone who had their ancestors come into new york city during the gilded age, this was an amazing book! The photos and old paraphernalia are gorgeous. Highly recommend!

Great coffee table book. We love it!

Not sure why Amazon is not protecting their books anymore for shipping?!?!This wasn’t an inexpensive book & was going to be a gift for coffee table book.This book is big & heavy. Packaging was non-existent! It should have been wrapped separately & possibly even sent in a better, smaller box so it didn’t dig around in a box with other things (as it arrived).VERY disappointing to say the least.The book looks very interesting but the Amazon packing/shipping is pitiful!

I loved this book. An exploration of virtually every aspect of life in New York during the Gilded Age, it combines fascinating historical background, entertaining anecdotes and a vast array of wonderful old photos and drawings to make you feel like you have travelled through time to visit the world's greatest city during an unparalleled period of growth, development and modernization. Any New Yorker will enjoy the countless origin stories of familiar neighborhoods, buildings, bridges and other landmarks. Any history buff will revel in its peek into life in a simpler time as the industrial influences that would forever change the city, country and world are just beginning to make their mark. Great, great stuff.