Book description
- Coming soon!
Why read it?
1 author picked The New York Nobody Knows as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love New York City and enjoy walking its streets and neighborhoods. Helmreich produced the consummate walking tour guide to the metropolis.
Helmreich, a great sociologist and a prolific writer was a dear friend and colleague. Sadly, I can no longer share my feelings about the city we love because of his untimely death during the pandemic. I read through this book with tears in my eyes and use it in my peregrinations through four of the five boroughs—I never get the Staten Island.
If you love The New York Nobody Knows...
A Block in Time
This is the story of New York City, told through the prism of one block. It’s a story of forest and cement, bird cries and taxi horns, theaters and brothels, hotels and factories, gambling dens and gourmet foods.
It’s also the story of high life and low life, immigrants and…
Want books like The New York Nobody Knows?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The New York Nobody Knows.
Share your top 3 reads of 2025!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,277
readers submitted
so far, will you?
