The Almanac of New York City

The Almanac of New York City

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Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5

The Almanac of New York City is an innovative companion for urban enthusiasts. Nowhere else will you find the name of the city's first comptroller (Selah Strong) and Staten Island's most recently designated historic district (Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto) next to the city's best-attended cultural institution (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with five million visitors annually) and its lowest recorded temperature (15 degrees below zero in February 1934). The Almanac identifies the borough with the most residents who relocate to Palm Beach (Queens) and the borough with the highest number of Panamanian immigrants (Brooklyn). It lists where New York currently ranks in the cost of apartment rentals, the rate of obesity in each borough, the details of executions dating back to 1639, per capita income by borough, the longest-running Broadway shows, the winners of the Wanamaker Mile, and the location of celebrated grave sites. Compiled by two longtime historians of the city, The Almanac treats readers to a real New York story, a tale that will delight anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the Big Apple's complex core.

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Customer Review: 4 out of 5
Every NY'er should own a copy! - (Reviewed Paperback version)

The main reason I'm writing this review is to include this link to the paperback version of this book.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0231140630

For some reason, it doesn't appear when searching for "Almanac New York City" on the site. Since the hardbound version doesn't seem to be available, this is a reasonably priced alternative.

Now on to the contents.
Simply wonderful for the statistician. You kinda have to like "lists" of stuff for this to be meaningful to you. However, for NY'ers who've ever wondered the specific population of each borough and the ethnic breakdown of each, or the results of Mayoral elections for the last 150 years, or the Top 100 tallest buildings in the city. All of it is here, and great fun to simply flip through.

The authors were limited by space, so they needed to exclude some repetitive items, like weather temperature highs & lows for every day.
Understandable.
However, some of their charts could be improved in explanation and clarity. Such as Migration To and From specific Boroughs. For that, I'm bumping the rating down a star. The authors leave an email address for suggestions like that, and I'm sure they will receive a lot of suggestions for subsequent editions.

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