Footprints in New York Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers

by Nevius, James; Nevius, Michelle

• ISBN13: 9780762796366
• ISBN10: 0762796367
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-04-15
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

NYC tour guides and authors James and Michelle Nevius explore the lives of 20 iconic New Yorkers—from Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant to  Alexander Hamilton, park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to JP Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.—and use them to guide the reader through four centuries of the city’s story. Beginning with the oldest standing building in the city, , a 1652 farmhouse in Brooklyn, and journeying all the way to the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, the book follows in the footsteps of these iconic New Yorkers. The authors tell the stories of everyone from slave traders and long-forgotten politicians to the movers and shakers of Gilded Age society and the Greenwich Village folk scene. One part history and one part personal narrative, Footprints in New York creates a different way of looking at the past, exploring new connections and forgotten chapters in the story of America’s greatest metropolis.
Visit www.footprintsinny.com for more.

Author Biography

Since 2000, Michelle and James Nevius have lead history, art, and culture walking tours of New York City. They have been quoted in the New York Times, Time Out, amNY, the Chicago Tribune, and the Associated Press. They have appeared on the Brian Lehrer Show, WCBS, WFUV, and on C-SPAN2’s Book TV.