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• Night Stick: The Autobiography of Lewis J. Valentine, Former Police Commissioner of New York (New York: Dial Press, 1947), by Lewis J. Valentine, contrib. by Fiorello H. La Guardia (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Brooklyn Bridge Shooting: An Independent Review and Assessment (ca. 2000), by American Jewish Committee (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• All the Way Down: The Violent Underworld of Street Gangs (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962), by Vincent Riccio and Bill Slocum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1928), by Herbert Asbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1928), by Herbert Asbury (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Duck Alley (c1999), by Jim DeFilippi (PDF at jimdefilippi.com)

• The Third Degree: A Detailed and Appalling Exposé of Police Brutality (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1930), by Emanuel Henry Lavine (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Narrative of Whiting Sweeting, Who Was Executed at Albany, the Sixth of August, 1791 (Windham, CT: Printed for J. Huntongton, 1797), contrib. by Whiting Sweeting and William Carter (page images at Cornell)
• The Narrative of Whiting Sweeting, Who Was Executed at Albany, the Sixth of August, 1791 (Hartford: Reprinted by Hudson and Goodwin, ca. 1797), contrib. by Whiting Sweeting and William Carter (page images at Cornell)
• A Remarkable Narrative of Whiting Sweeting, Who Was Executed at Albany, in the State of New-York, for Murder (Exeter, NH: H. Ranlet, 1793), contrib. by Whiting Sweeting and William Carter (page images at Cornell)
• A Remarkable Narrative of Whiting Sweeting, Who Was Executed at Albany in the State of New York for Murder (second Exeter edition; Exeter, NH: H. Ranlet, 1794), contrib. by Whiting Sweeting and William Carter (page images at Cornell)

• A Study of Women Delinquents in New York State (New York: The Century Co., 1920), by Mabel Ruth Fernald, Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes, and Almena Dawley, contrib. by Beardsley Ruml and Katharine Bement Davis (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• New York, by James Fenimore Cooper
  • HTML with commentary at James Fenimore Cooper Society
  • Gutenberg text

• The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909: Compiled From Original Sources and Illustrated by Photo-Intaglio Reproductions of Important Maps, Plans, Views, and Documents in Public and Private Collections (6 volumes; New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928), by I. N. Phelps Stokes, contrib. by F. C. Wieder and Victor Hugo Paltsits
  • Volume I: page images at Columbia
  • Volume II: page images at Columbia
  • Volume III: page images at Columbia
  • Volume IV: page images at Columbia
  • Volume V: page images at Columbia
  • Volume VI: page images at Columbia

• 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s (c2005), by Max Millard (Gutenberg text)
• The Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of the City of New York (12th edition, 1855), by Moses Yale Beach (searchable page images at Google)
• "New World A-Coming": Inside Black America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1943), by Roi Ottley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out of the Shadow (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Rose Cohen, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New York Obelisk: or, How Cleopatra's Needle Came to New York and What Happened When It Got Here (adapted from an article in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin; New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1993), by Martina D'Alton (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Celebrating the Immigrant: An Administrative History of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, 1952-1982, by Barbara Blumberg (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Revising the New York City Charter: Introductory Report (ca. 1973), by State Charter Revision Commission for New York City (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Journals of the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York (reprint edition of the first 34 conventions, 1785-1819; New York: H. M. Onderdonk, 1844), by Episcopal Church Diocese of New York
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Color of a Great City (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Theodore Dreiser, illust. by C. B. Falls (multiple formats at archive.org)
• De Paris au Niagara: Journal de Voyage d'une Délégation (in French; Paris: A. Dupret, 1887), by Charles Bigot (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lights and Shadows of New York Life: or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City (c1872), by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Loiterer in New York: Discoveries Made by a Rambler Through Obvious Yet Unsought Highways and Byways (New York: G. H. Doran Company, c1917), by Helen W. Henderson, contrib. by Paul Wayland Bartlett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• New York (London: A. and C. Black, 1911), by Hildegarde Hawthorne, illust. by Martin Lewis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• New York in Slices (New York: W. F. Burgess, 1849), by George G. Foster (page images at MOA)
• The Picture of New-York: or, The Traveller's Guide Through the Commercial Metropolis of the United States (New York: I. Riley and Co., 1807), by Samuel L. Mitchill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Secrets of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City, by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text)
• Sunshine and Shadow in New York (1869), by Matthew Hale Smith (page images at MOA)
• Coney Island (1999), by Professor Solomon (PDF with commentary at professorsolomon.com)
• Municipal Government of the City of New York (revised edition; Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1916), by Abby Gunn Baker and Abby Huntington Ware (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• New York City Directories (various editions and publishers, 1786-1923) (page images at nypl.org)

• A Proposal Under Difficulties: A Farce (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1905), by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• The Hairy Ape, by Eugene O'Neill (Gutenberg text)

• Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941 (originally published 1978; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald H. Bayor (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, c2001), by Gerald W. McFarland (PDF files at umass.edu)
• Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American Culture (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1997), by Daniel Soyer (multiple formats at Wayne State)

• Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography (originally published serially in 1852; reprinted with commentary in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 2017), by Walt Whitman, contrib. by Zachary Turpin
  • introduction by Turpin: PDF at uiowa.edu
  • novel: PDF at uiowa.edu
• Beasts of New York: A Children's Book for Grown-Ups (2007), by Jon Evans (multiple formats with commentary at beastsofnewyork.com)
• The Torch (originally published 1920; this edition 1951), by Jack Bechdolt (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• In a Yellow Wood (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1947), by Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Savage Holiday (originally published 1954; this edition New York: Award Books; London: Tandem Books, 1969), by Richard Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mayor Harding of New York: A Novel (published under "Stephen Endicott" pseudonym; New York: Mohawk Press, 1931), by Walter Adolphe Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Auction Block, by Rex Beach (Gutenberg text)
• Bartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (with annotations), by Herman Melville (HTML at slate.com)
• The Big Town: How I and the Mrs. Go to New York to See Life and Get Katie a Husband, by Ring Lardner, illust. by May Wilson Preston (illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org)
• The Bow of Orange Ribbon (New York: A. D. Porter Co., c1886), by Amelia E. Barr (HTML at Emory)
• The Bow of Orange Ribbon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1893), by Amelia E. Barr, illust. by Theodor Hampe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Caesar's Column (Caesars Soile): En Beretning fra det Tyvende Aarhundrede (in Norwegian; Chicago, F.J. Shulte and Co., 1892), by Ignatius Donnelly (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, F.J. Shulte and Co., c1890), by Ignatius Donnelly
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Caesars Kolonn: En Berattelse fran Tjugonde Arhundradet (in Swedish; Chicago: Swedish Book Co., 1891), by Ignatius Donnelly, trans. by Jakob Bonggren
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Daughter of Two Worlds: A Novel of New York Life (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Leroy Scott (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Definite Object: A Romance of New York, by Jeffery Farnol (Gutenberg text)
• The Enemy (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester, illust. by A. B. Wenzell
  • multiple format at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Fashion and Famine (New York: Bunce and Brother, 1854), by Ann S. Stephens
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• Jung-Amerika: Bilder aus dem New Yorker Leben (in German; Breslau: S. Schottlaender, 1884), by Sara Hutzler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lady Athlyne (scanned from serial publications in the Evening Star and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; 1909), by Bram Stoker (PDF with commentary at bramstoker.org)
• The Mysteries and Miseries of New York: A Story of Real Life (5 parts in 1; New York: Berford and Co., 1848), by Ned Buntline (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Clinkers: A Story of the New York Fire Department (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1909), by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, illust. by Martin Justice (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1912), by Louis Tracy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Scrope, or, The Lost Library: A Novel of New York and Hartford (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1874), by Frederic B. Perkins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Spirits White as Lightning (on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
• Vistas of New York (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1912), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wonder Jack, the Detective: or, The Witch of Manhattan (New York: J. S. Ogilvie Pub. Co., c1894), by Old Sleuth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Carrie (restored text; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981), by Theodore Dreiser, ed. by John C. Berkey, Alice M. Winters, James L. W. West, and Neda M. Westlake (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Kidnap Club (New York: Macaulay, c1932), by Arthur B. Reeve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Visa to Death (new edition of The Best That Ever Did It; New York: Permabooks, 1956), by Ed Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Beautiful and Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gutenberg text)
• The Beautiful and Damned (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Best That Ever Did It (New York: Harper and Bros., 1955), by Ed Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boomerang (second edition; New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1915), by William Hamilton Osborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bostonians, by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
• Bowery Tales: George's Mother; Maggie (London: W. Heinemann, 1900), by Stephen Crane
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Bust of Lincoln (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1912), by James Francis Dwyer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Confessions of Artemas Quibble, by Arthur Train (Gutenberg text)
• The Dream Doctor, by Arthur B. Reeve (Gutenberg text)
• Ester Ried, by Isabella Macdonald Alden (Gutenberg text)
• Fettered for Life, or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-Day (New York: Sheldon and Co., 1874), by Lillie Devereux Blake
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• A Gentleman of Leisure (c1921), by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• His Family (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Ernest Poole (Gutenberg text)
• J. Poindexter, Colored (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1922), by Irvin S. Cobb (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Job (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1917), by Sinclair Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manhattan Transfer (first edition; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1925), by John Dos Passos (multiple formats at Google)
• Partners of the Night (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1916), by Leroy Scott, illust. by Dalton Stevens (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Social Gangster (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1916), by Arthur B. Reeve, illust. by Will Foster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Something Doing (published as by "Varick Vanardy"; New York: The Macaulay Co., c1919), by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, illust. by George W. Gage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Soul Scar: A Craig Kennedy Scientific Mystery Novel (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1919), by Arthur B. Reeve, illust. by F. Graham Cootes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tales for Fifteen, or, Imagination and Heart, by James Fenimore Cooper
  • HTML with commentary at James Fenimore Cooper Society
  • Gutenberg text
• Tutt and Mr. Tutt, by Arthur Train (Gutenberg text)
• Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1921), by Brander Matthews, contrib. by W. C. Brownell, illust. by W. T. Smedley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The War Terror, by Arthur B. Reeve (Gutenberg text)
• Wits and the Woman (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1919), by Violet Irwin, illust. by Christine Tucke Curtiss
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896), by Abraham Cahan (Gutenberg text)
• Live With Lightning: A Novel (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1949), by Mitchell A. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death of a Celebrity (c1938), by Hulbert Footner (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Old Man Tutt (c1938), by Arthur Train (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• James Shore's Daughter (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1934), by Stephen Vincent Benét (page images at HathiTrust)
• All I Could Never Be (New York: Brewer, Warren and Putnam, c1932), by Anzia Yezierska (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Age of Innocence (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., c1920), by Edith Wharton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Bartleby
• By Advice of Counsel: Being Adventures of the Celebrated Firm of Tutt and Tutt, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, by Arthur Train, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The First Person Singular (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1922), by William Rose Benét
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Florentine Dagger: A Novel for Amateur Detectives (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Ben Hecht, illust. by Wallace Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Man Who Couldn't Sleep (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1919), by Arthur Stringer, illust. by Frank Snapp
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Moneychangers, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Mrs. Christy's Bridge Party (c1907), by Sara Ware Bassett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Music to My Sorrow (included on a Baen CD), ed. by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)
• Rahanvaihtajat (The Moneychangers translated into Finnish; 1915), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by Yrjö Sirola (Gutenberg text)
• Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)
• Sister Carrie (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1900), by Theodore Dreiser
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at Wayback Machine
• Sister Carrie (New York: B. W. Dodge and Co., 1907), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The World of Henry Orient, by Nora Johnson (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)
• The Thin Man (c1934), by Dashiell Hammett (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Passing (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1929), by Nella Larsen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Flight (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Walter White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventuress: A Craig Kennedy Detective Story (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1917), by Arthur B. Reeve, illust. by Will Foster
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Beyond World's End (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
• Charlotte Temple, by Mrs. Rowson (Gutenberg text)
• Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (2 volumes in 1; Boston: C. Ewer, 1824), by Mrs. Rowson (multiple formats at Google)
• Mad Maudlin (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
• Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane (Gutenberg text)
• May Iverson's Career (New York and London: Harper and Bros., n.d.), by Elizabeth Garver Jordan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Old Maid (The 'Fifties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and audio)

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