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… Coenties Slip a tiny block on the East River with a view of the Brooklyn Bridge They lived there for a little … historic buildings around them were being demolished and high rises were taking their place Peiffer captures a part … to be a woman living alone and not in a boarding house or hotel for single women the way Martin and Tawney did was …

… died in 1995 Durst amassed almost 35000 pieces of New York historybooks prints maps photographs and postcards In the … to a handsome new book New York Rising An Illustrated History from the Durst Collection two of Dursts children … latest activities Second and more importantly there is no index In a book covering such a broad span of history it …