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Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000.

Laura Alpern Manischewitz, Manischewitz: The Matzo Family: The Making of an American Jewish Icon, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., in association with The American Jewish Historical Society, 2008.

The American Sugar Refining Company, A Century of Sugar Refining in the United States, New York City, 1918.

Tyler Anbinder, Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum, Plume, 2001.

Jervis Anderson, This Was Harlem, 1900-1950, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1981.

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Hillary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson, Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.

Diana Balmori and Margaret Morton, Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, Yale University Press, 1993.

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Stanley Baron, Brewed in America: A History of Beer and Ale in the United States, Little, Brown, and Company, 1962

Michael and Ariane Batterberry, On the Town in New York: The Landmark History of Eating, Drinking, and Entertainments from the American Revolution to the Food Revolution, Routledge, 1999.

Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, Penguin Classics, 1996.

Meyer Berger, Meyer Berger’s New York, Random House, 1953.

Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris, eds., Slavery in New York, Published in conjunction with the New-York Historical Society, The New Press, 2005.

Geoffrey Biddle, Alphabet City, University of California Press, 1992.

Holley Bishop, Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey, Free Press, 2005.

Elizabeth Blackmar, Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850, Cornell University Press, 1989.

Kevin Bone, The New York Waterfront: Evolution and Building Culture of the Port and Harbor, The Monacelli Press, 1997.

Arna Bontemps, The Harlem Renaissance Remembered, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1972.

Mary Louise Booth, History of the City of New York: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. New York, W.R.C. Clark and Meeker, 1859.

Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, The Macmillan Company, 1965.

Albert H. Buck, ed., A Treatise of Hygiene and Public Health Vol. II, William Wood & Co.: 1876.

Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Oxford University Press: 1999.

Daniel Jr. Catlin, Good Work Well Done: The Sugar Business Career of Horace Havemeyer, 1903-1956, Privately Printed, 1988.

Lindsay Campbell and Anne Wiesen, eds., Restorative Commons: Creating Health and Well-being through Urban Landscapes, U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station, General Technical Report NRS-P-39, January 2009.

Robert A. Carlo, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Vintage Books, 1975.

Novella Carpenter, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, The Penguin Press, 2009.

Jeff Chang, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2005.

Harold van B. Cleveland and Thomas F. Huertas, Citibank, 1812-1970, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1985.

Paul E. Cohen and Robert T. Augustyn, Manhattan in Maps, 1527-1995, Rizzoli International Publications, 1997.

Rich Cohen, Sweet and Low: A Family Story, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Jesús Colón, A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches, Mainstream Publishers, 1961.

Martha Cooper, New York State of Mind, powerHouse Books, 2007.

Martha Cooper, Street Play, From Here to Fame, 2006.

Curtis Cravens, et al., Copper on the Creek: Reclaiming an Industrial History, Place in History/Furnace Press, 2000.

Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, Penguin, 2010.

John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the riverkeepers, Touchstone, 1997.

William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, W.W. Norton & Company, 1992.

Wayne Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails, Broadway Books, 2007.

David Davis, Inhuman bondage: the rise and fall of slavery in the New World. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Marni Davis, Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition, NYU Press, 2012.

Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Verso, 1990.

Noel Deerr, The History of Sugar, Vols. 1 and 2, Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1949.

Jerry Della Femina, An Italian Grows in Brooklyn, Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

Tracey Deutsch, Building a Housewife’s Paradise: Gender, Politics and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century, The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Thomas De Voe, Abattoirs: A Paper Read Before the Polytechnic Branch of the American Institute, June 8, 1866, Van Benthuysen & Sons Steam Printing House.

Thomas De Voe, The Market Assistant: containing a brief description of every article of human food sold in the public markets of the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn; including the various domestic and wild animals, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruits &c., &c. with many curious incidents and anecdotes, 1867.

Thomas De Voe, The Market Book: Containing a Historical Account of the Public Markets in the Cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Brooklyn, Etc., 1862.

Jan de Vries and Ad van der Woude, The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Hasia Diner, Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, Harvard University Press, 2003.

Andrew S. Dolkart and Gretchen S. Sorin, Touring Historic Harlem: Four Walks in Northern Manhattan, New York Landmarks Conservancy, 1997.

Patrick Downey, Gangster City: The History of the New York Underworld 1900-1935, Barricade Books, 2009.

Rina Drory, Models and Contacts: Arabic Literature and Its Impact on Medieval Jewish Culture, Koninklijke Brill, 2000.

M. H. Dunlop, Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn of the Century New York, William Morrow, 2000.

Richard S. Dunn, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1972.

Frances F. Dunwell, The Hudson: America’s River, Columbia University Press, 2008.

John T. Edge, Southern Belly: The Ultimate Food Lover’s Companion to the South, Algonquin Books, 2007.

George Ehret, Twenty-Five Years of Brewing with an Illustrated History of American Beer, Kessinger Publishing, 1891.

Robert Ernst, Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863, Syracuse University Press, 1994.

Fifth Avenue Association, Fifth Avenue Old and New, 1824-1924, Privately published, 1924.

Luis A. Figueroa, Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico, The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Robert Fitch, The Asssassination of New York, Verso, 1993.

Joe Flood, The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City—and Determined the Future of Cities, Riverhead, 2010.

George C. Foster, New York by Gas-Light, republished by University of California Press, 1990.

Tom Fox, Ian Koeppel and Susan Kellam, Struggle for Space: The Greening of New York City 1970-1984, Neighborhood Open Space Coalition, 1985.

Joshua Freeman, Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II, The New Press, 2000.

Susanne Freidberg, Fresh: A Perishable History, The Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

Betty Fussell, Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef, Harcourt Books, 2008.

Donna R. Gabaccia, We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans, Harvard University Press, 1998.

David Gellman, Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827, Louisiana State University Press, 2006.

Denise Gigante, Taste: A Literary History, Yale University Press, 2005.

Jonathan Gill, Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America, Grove Press, 2011.

Ruth Glasser, My Music Is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940, University of California Press, 1995.

Julian Go, American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines nad Puerto Rico During U.S. Colonialism, Duke University Press, 2008.

Michael Gold, Jews Without Money, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1930.

Carolina González and Seth Kugel, Nueva York: The Complete Guide to Latino Life in the Five Boroughs, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006.

Evelyn Gonzalez, The Bronx, Columbia University Press, 2004.

Henry Goodman, ed., Stories from the Yiddish about life in America, Ykuf Publishers, New York, 1961.

John Grafton, New York in the Nineteenth Century: 321 Engravings from “Harper’s Weekly” and Other Contemporary Sources, Dover Publications, Inc., 1977.

Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, Penguin, 2010.

Katharine Greider, The Archaeology of Home: An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side, Public Affairs, 2011.

William Grimes, Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York, North Point Press, 2009.

Nancy Groce, New York: Songs of the City, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999.

Nachum Gross, ed., Economic History of the Jews, Shocken Books, 1975.

Rick Halpern, Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago’s Packinghouses, 1904-54, University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Jessica B. Harris, High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America, Bloomsbury USA, 2011.

Leslie Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863, The University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Robert Hartley, An historical, scientific, and practical essay on milk: as an article of human sustenance; with a consideration of the effects consequent upon the present unnatural methods of producing it for the supply of large cities, J. Leavitt, 1842.

Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, eds., Gastropolis: Food & New York City, Columbia University Press, 2008.

Harry W. Havemeyer, Frederick Christian Havemeyer Jr.: A Biography 1807-1891, Privately printed, 2003.

Harry W. Havemeyer, Henry O. Havemeyer: The Most Independent Mind, Privately printed, 2011.

Harry W. Havemeyer, Merchants of Williamsburgh: Frederick C. Havemeyer, Jr., William Dick, John Mollenhauer, Henry O. Havemeyer, Privately printed, 1989.

Henry O. Havemeyer, Biographical Record of the Havemeyer Family, 1600-1943, 1944.

W. P. Hedden, How Great Cities Are Fed, D. C. Heath and Company, 1929.

Steve Hindy and Tom Potter, Beer School, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

Daniel Hodas, The Business Career of Moses Taylor, New York University Press, 1976.

Eric Homberger, The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York City’s History, Henry Holt and Company, 1994.

Clifton Hood, 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Roger Horowitz. Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Manny Howard, My Empire of Dirt: How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard into a Farm/A Cautionary Tale, Scribner, 2010.

Sasha Issenberg, The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy, Gotham Books, 2007.

Jaap Jacobs, The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America, Cornell University Press, 2009.

Kenneth T. Jackson, ed. The Encyclopedia of New York City, Yale University Press, 1995.

Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, Oxford University Press, 1985.

Kenneth T. Jackson & David S. Dunbar, eds., Empire City: New York Through the Centuries, 2002.

Thomas Janvier, In Old New York, Harper & Brothers, 1894.

Jessica Jiji, Sweet Dates in Basra, Avon, 2010.

Alfred Kazin, A Walker in the City, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1951.

Jeff Kisseloff, You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II, Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1989.

Gerard Koeppel, Water for Gotham: A History, Princeton University Press, 2000.

Virginia E. Sánchez Korrol, From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City, University of California Press, 1983.

Thomas W. Krise, ed., Caribbeana: An Anthology of English literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777. University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Mark Kurlansky, The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell, Ballantine Books, 2006.

Mark Kurlansky, The Food of a Younger Land, Riverhead Books, 2009.

Jonathan Kwitny, Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace, W.W. Norton & Company, 1979.

Laura J. Lawson, City Bountiful: A Centur of Community Gardening in America, University of California Press, 2005.

Jennifer 8. Lee, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food, Twelve, 2008.

Paula Young Lee, ed., Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse, University of New Hampshire Press, 2008.

Michael A. Lerner, Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City, Harvard UP, 2007.

David Levering Lewis, When Harlem Was In Vogue, Penguin, 1997.

Marc Linder & Lawrence S. Zacharias, Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn, University of Iowa Press, 1999.

James Livingston, Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul, Basic Books, 2011.

Phillip Lopate, Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan, Crown Publishers, 2004.

Philip Lopate, ed., Writing New York: A Literary Anthology, The Library of America, 1998.

Alfredo López, Doña Licha’s Island: Modern Colonialism in Puerto Rico, South End Press, 1987.

Linda Lovelace with Mike McGrady, Ordeal, Berkley Books, 1980.

Clyde L MacKenzie, The Fisheries of Raritan Bay, Rutgers University Press, 1992.

John Manbeck, fed., The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Citizens Committee for New York City, Yale University Press, 1998.

Maxwell F. Marcuse, This Was New York!: A Nostalgic Picture of Gotham in the Gaslight Era, Carlton Press, 1965.

Harpo Marx with Rowland Barber. Harpo Speaks…about New York, The Little Bookroom, 1961.

Nicole P. Marwell, Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City, The University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Felix V. Matos-Rodríguez, and Pedro Juan Hernández, Pioneros: Puerto Ricans in New York City 1896-1948, Arcadia Publishing, 2001.

John McPhee, The Founding Fish, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2002.

Benjamin Miller, Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York the Last Two Hundred Years, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000.

Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power, Penguin, 1986.

Sidney W. Mintz, Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History, W.W. Norton & Company, 1974.

Sidney W. Mintz and Sally Price, eds., Caribbean Contours, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Joseph Mitchell, Up In The Old Hotel And Other Stories, Vintage Books, 1993.

John H. Mollenkopf and Manuel Castells, eds., Dual City: Restructuring New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1992.

Frank Monaghan and Marvin Lowenthal, This Was New York: The Nation’s Capital in 1789, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943.

Jan Morris, Manhattan ’45, Oxford University Press, 1987.

Humberto García Muñiz, Sugar and Power in the Caribbbean: The South Porto Rico Sugar Company in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, 1900-1921, Ian Randle Publishers, 2010.

Stanley Nadel, Little Germany: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845-80, University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Garrett Oliver, The Brewmaster’s Table: Discovering the Pleasures of Real Beer with Real Food, Ecco, 2005.

Maureen Ogle, Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer, Harcourt, Inc., 2006.

Daniel Okrent, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, Scribner, 2010.

Gilbert Osofsky, Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto, Negro New York, 1890-1930, Harper & Row, 1963.

Matthew Parker, The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire and War, Hutchinson, 2011.

Marcus Pohlman, ed. African American Political Thought: Confrontation vs. Compromise, from 1945 to the Present. Volume Two, Routledge, 2002.

Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World, Random House 2001.

Sidney I. Pomerantz, New York an American City 1783-1803: A Study of Urban Life, Columbia University Press, 1938.

James Pope-Hennessy, Sins of the Fathers: A Study of the Atlantic Slave Traders, 1441-1807, Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.

Claire Preston, Bee, Reaktion Books, 2006.

William Prince, A treatise on the vine: embracing its history from the earliest ages to the present day, with descriptions of above two hundred foreign and eighty American varieties; together with a complete dissertation on the establishment, culture, and management of vineyards, T. & J. Swords, G. & C. & H. Carvill, E. Bliss, Collins & Co., G. Thorburn and Sons. Illus. 1830.

James A. Rawley with Stephen D. Behrendt, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, revised edition. University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

Krishnendu Ray, The Migrant’s Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali-American Households, Temple University Press, 2004.

Marci Reaven and Steve Zeitlin, Hidden New York: A Guide to Places That Matter, Rivergate Books, 2006.

David Remnick, ed., Life Stories: Profiles From The New Yorker, Modern Library, 2001.

David Remnick, ed., Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker, Modern Library, 2001.

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitt, Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America, Little, Brown & Company, 2011.

Steven A. Riess, Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era, University of Illinois Press, 1983.

Jacob A. Riis, The Battle with the Slum, The Macmillan Company, 1902. Republished by Dover Publications, Inc., 1998.

Robert C. Ritchie, Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates, Harvard University Press, 1986.

Paul Roberts, The End of Food, Mariner Books, 2008.

Dick Rosano, Wine Heritage: The Story of Italian-American Vintners, Wine Appreciation Guild, 2000.

Constance Rosenblum, ed., New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of The New York Times, New York University Press, 2005.

Max Rosenfeld, trans., New Yorkish and Other American Yiddish Stories, Sholom Aleichem Club Press, 1995.

Nan A. Rothschild, New York City Neighborhoods: The 18th Century, Harcout Brace Jovanovich, 1990.

Sy Rubin & Larry Siegel, 14th St., Matrix Publications, Inc. 1986.

Dick Russell, Striper Wars: An American Fish Story, IslandPress/Shearwater Books, 2005.

Luc Sante, Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, Farrar Straus, and Giroux, 1991.

Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory,

Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

Laura Schenone, A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances, W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.

Hermann Schlüter, The Brewing Industry and the Brewery Workers’ Movement in America, Press of S. Rosenthal and Co., 1910.

Dorothee Schneider, Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900, University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Eric Schneider, Smack: Heroin and the American City, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Arthur Schwartz, Arthur Schwartz’s New York City Food: An Opinionated History and More than 100 Legendary Recipes, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York.

Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America, Vintage Books, 2005.

Kate Simon, Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood, Perennial Library/Harper & Row, 1982.

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1905.

Jimmy M. Skaggs, Prime Cut: Livestock Raising and Meatpacking in the United States, 1607-1983, Texas A&M University Press, 1986.

Andrew F. Smith, Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, Columbia University Press, 2011.

Alden Spooner, The Cultivation of American Grape Vines and Making of Wine, A. Spooner & Co., 1846.

Tom Standage, An Edible History of Humanity, Walker & Company, 2010.

Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860, University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Carolyn Steel, Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives, Chatto & Windus, 2008.

Julian H. Steward, et al., The People of Puerto Rico, A Social Science Research Center Study, College of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, University of Illinois Press, 1956.

Henry R. Stiles, History of the City of Brooklyn, N.Y., Volume I. Published by subscription, 1867.

Edward J. Sullivan, ed., Nueva York, 1613-1945, The New-York Historical Society, in association with Scala Publishers, 2010.

Lloyd Ultan, The Beautiful Bronx, 1920-1950, The Bronx County Historical Society, 1979.

VanDerZee: Photographer 1886-1983, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993.

Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis, eds., Seeds of Change, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

Dan Wakefield, Island in the City: The World of Spanish Harlem, Arno Press: A New York Times Company, 1975.

John Waldman, Heartbeats in the Muck: The History of Sea Life and Environment of New York Harbor, Lyons Press, 1999.

Deborah Wallace and Rodrick Wallace, a plague on your houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled, Verso, 1998.

Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Random House, 2010.

Eric Williams, Capitalism & Slavery, Russell & Russell, 1961.

Helen Worden, Round Manhattan’s Rim, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1934.

Jane Ziegelman, 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement, HarperCollins Publishers, 2010.

Stanley Walker, The Night Club Era, The Johns Hopkins University Press. Originally published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933.

Alan Weisman, The World Without Us, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2007.

Bouck White, The Book of Daniel Drew, Nabu Press, 2010. Originally published before 1923.

E.B. White, Here is New York, The Little Bookroom. Originally published by Harper & Bros., c1949.

David Wondrich, Imbibe! From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, Perigee Trade, 2007.

Vic Ziegel, New York Baseball, 1947-1957, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York New York: The City in Art and Literature, 2000.

The WPA Guide to New York City: The Federal Writers Project Guide to 1930s New York, The New Press, 1992. Reprinted from 1932, The Guilds Committee For Federal Writers’ Publications, Inc.

NEWSPAPERS
Daily Advertiser
The Daily News
The Independent (Boston)
The Independent (UK)
The National Provisioner
The New York Amsterdam News
The New York Times
The New York Daily News
The New-York Gazette
New York Herald Tribune
The New York Post
The New York Tribune
Newsday
The Saturday Evening Post
The Village Voice
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post
The Weekly post-boy

SELECTED ACADEMIC JOURNALS/DISSERTATIONS

Ayala, César. “The Decline of the Plantation Economy and the Puerto Rican Migration of the 1950s,” Latino Studies Journal, Winter 1996, Vol. 7 No 1. 65.

Bienenfeld, Laura Anne, Golden, Anne L. and Garland, Elizabeth J. Journal of Urban Health, “Consumption of Fish From Polluted Waters by WIC Participants in East Harlem,”, Vol. 80, No. 2, June 2003.

Corburn, Jason. “Combining Community-Based Research and Local Knowledge to Confront Asthma and Subsistence-Fishing Hazards in Greenpoint/Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York,” Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 110, Supplment 2, April 2002.

Curran, Winifred. “Gentrification and the nature of work: exploring the links in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,” Environment and Planning A, 2004, vol. 36.

Eltis, David and Engerman, Stanley L. “The Importance of Slavery and the Slave Trade to Industrializing Britain,” The Journal of Economic History, March 2000, Vol. 60, No. 1, 129.

Hurley, Andrew. “Creating Ecological Wastelands: Oil Pollution in New York City, 1870-1900,” Journal of Urban History, Vol. 20, No. 3, May 1994.

Janowitz, Meta F. “Indian Corn and Dutch Pots: Seventeenth-Century Foodways in New Amsterdam/New York,” Historical Archaeology, Vol. 27, No. 2, Health Sanitation and Foodways in Historical Archaeology, 1993.

Lobel, Cindy R. “Consuming Classes: Changing Food Consumption Patterns in New York City, 1780-1860,” PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 2003.

McCusker, Jr., John James. “The Rum Trade and the Balance of Payments of the Thirteen Continental Colonies, 1650-1775,” unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1970.

Solá, José. “The funnel system in which his is the little end”: The technological transformation of the sugar industry and American protectionism in the emergence of the colonos in Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1898-1928. Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Connecticut, retrieved May 23, 2011.

Suarez, Nydia R. “The Rise and Decline of Puerto Rico’s Sugar Economy,” in Sugar and Sweetener, S&O/SSS-224/December 1998. Economic Research Service/USDA.

Suchman, Edward A. and Muñoz, Raul A. “Accident Occurrence and Control Among Sugar-Cane Workers,” Journal of Occupational Medicine, 1967.

Torpey, Wilbur N. “Response to Pollution of New York Harbor and Thames Estuary.” Journal (Water Pollution Control Federation). 39:11 (Nov 1967). 1797-1809.

Ioan Voicu and Vicki Been, “The Effect of Community Gardens on Neighboring Property Values,” Real Estate Economics, v.36, 2008.

UNDP, Urban Agriculture: Food, Jobs and Sustainable Cities, United Nations Development Programme, 1996.

SELECTED MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Randy Alfred, “May 21, 1901: Connecticut Sets First Speed Limit at 12 MPH,” Wired, May 21, 2008.

“Decoration & Furniture; New Houses—Indoors and Out,” The Art Amateur: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Art in the Household, March 1883.

“Bachelor Apartment,” Bachelor Magazine.

“Beer and Baseball,” The New Yorker, September 24, 1932.

“The Brewing of a Glass of Beer,” Metropolitan Magazine, August, 1897.

“Bridegroom and Father to Fight for the Dead Bride,” New York Journal, December 12, 1897.

Norman Brouwer, “The New York Fisheries,” Seaport Magazine, Winter/Spring 1990.

Michael Cohn, “Final Years of the New York Fisheries,” Seaport, Winter/Spring 1990.

Roger Cohn, “Calabaza Pumpkins are Growing in the Bronx! (And Other Mini-Miracles of Nature in the City),” Audobon, July-August 1991.

“Death and Hunter’s Point,” Harper’s Weekly, August 13, 1881.

Daphne Eviatar, “The Ooze,” New York Magazine, June 3, 2007.

Fish Bum zine, Issue #1, October 2010.

Forbes.

Sarah Ferguson, “The Death of Little Puerto Rico: NYC Gardens Plowed Under by a New Wave of Urban Development,” New Village, Issue 1, 1999.

Freedman, Morris. “Wine Like Mother Used to Make,” Commentary Magazine, May 1954.

Beverly Gage, “Presence of Mind: Just What the Doctor Ordered,” Smithsonian Magazine, April 2005.

“Fresh Fish,” Appletons’ Journal of Literature, Science and Art, April 22, 1871, Vol. V, No. 108.

“Grapes for the Million,” The American Farmer, Mar. 15, 1893.

Anthony Hiss, “Love Among the Ruins,” The New Yorker, March 17, 1980.

Anthony Hiss, “Talk of the Town: Green,” The New Yorker, June 26, 1978.

Gerald Holland, “The Beer Barons of New York,” The American Mercury, vol. 23 #92, 402, 1931.

Alan Jones, “Skylines and Tight Lines,” Boating World, April 2007.

Ben McGrath, “Fixer-Upper,” The New Yorker, December 17, 2007.

Ben McGrath, “Old Spill,” The New Yorker, April 5, 2004.

James McWilliams, “Should Urban Farmers Be Allowed to Slaughter Backyard Animals?” The Atlantic. October 13, 2011.

Thomas Meehan, ed., The Gardener’s Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser, Vol. II—1860, Philadelphia.

King Feature Syndicate, Inc. “They Call the Colonel ‘Jake.’ That’s His Baseball Transition. He Is a Great Asset to the Game. Runs Three Businesses at Once. Now He’s Thinking of a Quiet Life,” Damon Runyon, 1924.

Eric W. Sanderson and Marianne Brown, “Mannahatta: An Ecological First Look at the Manhattan Landscape Prior to Henry Hudson,” Northeastern Naturalist, 14(4), 2007.

Charles Dawson Shanley, “Signs and Show-Cases of New York,” The Atlantic, May 1870.

Roger Starr, “Making New York Smaller,” The New York Times Magazine, November 14, 1976.

W.O. Stoddard, “New York Harbor Police,” Harpers New Monthly Magazine, No. CCLXIX, Vol. XLV, October 1872.

Robert Sullivan, “The Concrete Jungle,” New York Magazine, September 20, 2010.

William N. Zeisel, Jr., “Shark!!! And Other Sport Fish Once Abundant in New York Harbor,” Seaport Magazine, Winter/Spring 1990.

SELECTED REPORTS

Earl D. Babst, Chairman, Board of Directors, The American Sugar Refining Company Statement, “Shall our Tariff and Colonial Policy Permit the Duplication on the Islands of Sugar Refineries Already Built on the Mainland?” 1933.

Bridget Barclay, “Hudson River Angler Survey: A report on the adherence to fish consumption health advisories among Hudson River anglers,” Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1993.

Calendar of State Papers, Great Britain Public Record Office; Colonial Series, America and the West Indies, 21 October 1697 – 31 December 1698, Public Record Office, Hon. J.W. Fortescue, Ed. “Presented to the Board by the Undersecretary of the Company,” Read 17 February, 1697-8.

City Council, City of New York, “Hearing of The Committee On Waterfronts,” June 17, 2002.

Report of the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission of New York: Sewerage and Sewage Disposal in the Metropolitan District of New York and New Jersey, April 30, 1910.

United States Federal Trade Commission, Office of Farm Management, Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Bureau of Markets. “Report of the Federal Trade Commission on the Meat-Packing Industry, Part III. Methods of the Five Packers in Controlling the Meat-Packing Industry,” June 28, 1919.

The National Provisioner, various volumes, 1981

UNPUBLISHED LETTERS AND JOURNALS

Select letters of Christopher Columbus, with other original documents, relating to his four voyages to the New world, Vol. 43. – Christopher Columbus, Giuliano Dati, Diego Alvarez Chanca, Diego Méndez.

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts.

Letters of Ashbel Fitch, 1890.

Letter from Ivine Galarza, District Manager, Bronx Community Planning Board #6, to Chris Meyers, Assistant Director, NYC Operation Greenthumb, December 11, 1995.

Letter from Chief to Leland Harrison, Office of the Counselor, State Department, November 2, 1917. Letter from Chief Agent 78448 to W. Offley, November 2, 1917.

Letter from John Hartung, chief chemist, Jacob Ruppert Brewery, to Edward Zahm, Zahm & Nagel, September 11, 1930.

The William Steinway Diary, 1861-1896, http://americanhistory.si.edu/steinwaydiary/diary/, July 18, 2011.

Copy Book of Letters of Petrus Stuyvesant, November 25, 1757-May 7, 1780, New-York Historical Society.

Edward Neufville Tailer Diaries, New-York Historical Society.

WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION SOURCES

Cirincione, Patrick. “Impressions of Fulton Fish Market,” Feeding the City, WPA, The Municipal Archives.

“The Crab Man,” Roll 2, Folder 63, Feeding the City, WPA, The Municipal Archives.

“Feeding the City,” WPA, Reel 153, Municipal Archives, New York.

“Fish Varieties, “WPA, Reel 153, Feeding the City, Municipal Archives, New York.

“Fourteenth Street Area” (No Date, no author) Folder 67, Feeding the City WPA, the Municipal Archives.

Mitchell, John. “Price,” Feeding the City, WPA, The Municipal Archives.

Roth, Terry. “Street Cries and Criers of New York,” WPA, November 3, 1938.

Smith, Clyde and Hatch, Marion Charles. November 29, 1939. WPA, American Memory, Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html, June 9, 2011.

MISCELLANEOUS

Fire Insurance Maps from the Sanborn Company Archives, New York Public Library

NY Department of Health, Board of Health, the University of Michigan, 1911.

Paul Greenberg, Mark Kurlansky, John Mylod, “How to Make New York City Seafood Local Again,” talk at the South Street Seaport Museum, November 18, 2010.

Monarch Wine Company documents, courtesy of Gale Robinson.

Operation GreenThumb historic documents, courtesy of director Edie Stone.

Department of Investigation documents.

Ruppert, Jacob K. The New York County Lawyer, “In Re John Barleycorn: The Role of the NYCLA in the Repeal of Prohibition,” November 2005.

The clippings collection of Thomas F. De Voe, New-York Historical Society.