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Reviewer: A reader from Brooklyn, NY, USA  All I want to say is WOW! This book is wonderful, I recieved it as a Christmas gift, and I just can't put it down. It is just as wonderful as the series. Ric Burns does a great job. Best New York book I ever read.
 

The Destruction of Penn Station
by Peter Moore (Photographer), Barbara Moore (Editor), Eric P. Nash, lorrai Diehl
Photographer Peter Moore and his wife Barbara moved into the Penn Station neighborhood in the early sixties. They used the building every day, whether they were passing through to the subway or catching a bite in the cavernous coffee shop.
With the railroad's permission, they documented its slow dismantling over the four years from 1963-1967. This book is the first appearance of that work. The black and white pictures are arranged chronologically, showing the faded but still magnificent station from its last days of active use through to its ghostly presence as a metal shell. The photography is beautiful and lyrical and sad beyond words, like a mournful love song to a love lost. The picures of the rubble-filled waiting room, its shape still intact but its side walls gone, are especially hard to take.

Delirious New York : A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan  by Rem Koolhaas
Reviewer from new york, ny usa wrote:  An easily digestible read filled with delicious facts about the big apple. This book can change the way one sees New York forever. Be it from a street level, or from an intellectual level. "Delirious New York" helps to rediscover  Manhattan, and it helps to discover the idea of Manhattan in places far away from "The City". This publication is a perfect starting point for any exploration into the past or the future of urbanism, architecture, and of course New York City and the people who helped to shape this ever growing marvel.  A must read, and a perfect gift for anyone who is even remotely touched by New York.

Empire: A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon by Mitchell Pacelle, Mitch Pacelle
Reviewer: Richard Kales from San Francisco  "Empire" by Mitch Pacelle is the Biography of the Empire State Building ! With some good historical background, the book focuses on the building, the people whose lives are involved with it and the unusual 114-year master lease  given to the Helmsely organization by Prudential in 1961.The "cast of characters" includes an unbelievably wealthy Japanese family (who wind up in prison for their activities), "The Donald" Trump who tries to break the master  lease, and Leona Helmsley, the fabulously rich wife of the New York real estate magnate (who ultimatley goes to  prison herself).This is a real page-turner. After three nights, I finished it and wished it were longer.

The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their OriginsHenry Moscow, 1978 Hagstrom. Derivation of each street name in Manhattan.

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