by Ellen Williams and Steve Radlauer
In the fastest-changing city in the world, there still exist dozens of shops and restaurants that have been serving New Yorkers for more than a century. The Historic Shops and Restaurants of New York points out these hidden spots while revealing their long and interesting history. Stepping through the doors of any one of the featured establishments transports the reader to an earlier time and place. Discover venerable Old World dining rooms, gas-lit taverns, art jewelers, and old-world apothecaries and tobacconists from the New York of George Washington, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Boss Tweed, Harry Houdini, and P. T. Barnum. Visit a backstreet speakeasy, a print shop specializing in rare maps and engravings, and the haberdashery where Abraham Lincoln traded in his backwoods cap for a silk top hat. Explore original Lower East Side delicatessens, Greenwich Village coffee merchants, and shops where purveyors of riding boots, andirons, brass beds, and vintage colognes have plied their trades for generations. The address, phone number, subway stop, and hours for each of the many featured restaurants, gourmet shops, cafes, saloons and bars, hardware stores, and home furnishing stores are included.
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