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• The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty Years' Work Among Them (New York: Wynkoop and Hallenbeck, 1872), by Charles Loring Brace (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Darkness and Daylight: or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life (Hartford: A.D. Worthington, 1893), by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, and Thomas Byrnes, contrib. by Lyman Abbott (page images at Harvard)
• How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1890), by Jacob A. Riis
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • illustrated HTML at Bartleby
• The Leaven in a Great City (New York: Dodd, Mead and company, 1902), by Lillian Williams Betts (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The House on Henry Street (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1938), by Lillian D. Wald, illust. by Abram Tromka (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Battle with the Slum, by Jacob A. Riis (illustrated HTML at Bartleby)
• The House on Henry Street (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1915), by Lillian D. Wald, illust. by Abram Tromka (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The House on Henry Street (third printing; New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1924), by Lillian D. Wald, illust. by Abram Tromka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Problem of the Poor: A Record of Quiet Work in Unquiet Places (New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1882), by Helen Campbell (page images at Harvard)
• Old Age Poverty in Greenwich Village: A Neighborhood Study (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1915), by Mabel Louise Nassau (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

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• 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)

• Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Neil Jumonville (HTML at UC Press)

• The Happiest Time of Their Lives, by Alice Duer Miller (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Mrs. Parkington (c1943), by Louis Bromfield (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Wanted: A Chaperon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1902), by Paul Leicester Ford, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy and Margaret Armstrong (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wage-Earners' Budgets: A Study of Standards and Cost of Living in New York City (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1907), by Louise Bolard More, contrib. by Franklin Henry Giddings (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Italian Women in Industry: A Study of Conditions in New York City (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1919), by Louise C. Odencrantz (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Unregulated Work in the Global City: Employment and Labor Law Violations in New York City (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2007), by Annette D. Bernhardt, Siobhan McGrath, and James DeFilippis (PDF files with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Unregulated Work in the Global City: Employment and Labor Law Violations in New York City (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2007), by Annette D. Bernhardt, Siobhan McGrath, and James DeFilippis (PDF files with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Unregulated Work in the Global City: Employment and Labor Law Violations in New York City (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2007), by Annette D. Bernhardt, Siobhan McGrath, and James DeFilippis (PDF files with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Report of the Executive Board of District Assembly 126, K. of L., Upon the Trouble of L.A.'s 2985, 4235, and 4717, K. of L. (1887), by Knights of Labor District Assembly 126 (page images at HathiTrust)

• Making Both Ends Meet: The Income and Outlay of New York Working Girls (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• A Big Apple for Educators: New York City's Experiment with Schoolwide Performance Bonuses: Final Evaluation Report (c2011), by Julie A. Marsh, Matthew G. Springer, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Kun Yuan, Scott Epstein, Julia Koppich, Nidhi Kalra, Catherine Dimartino, and Art Peng (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• A Seasonal Industry: A Study of the Millinery Trade in New York (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1917), by Mary Van Kleeck (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

• 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)

• 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.edu)

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