Subject: New York (State) -- Biography (Keywords)

Peter Daly was nineteen when he left Donegal, bound for America. Nine years later, in 1961, following a stint with the US Army, he joined the New York Police Department. His beat was the Lower East Side of Manhattan during one of the worst crime-waves in the city and, determined to make his mark,...

An A to Z encyclopedia of Broadway, this volume covers producers, writers, composers, lyricists, set designers, theaters, performers & landmarks.

'The Brotherhoods' is an historic, unprecedented portrait of two brotherhoods - the NYPD and the Mafia - and the two cops who allegedly belonged to both.

When Rick Marin's wife leaves him, the result is a descent into a rakish existence of sexual manoeuvring. This is his memoir about being newly single in New York.

This text presents a memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City's cultural and intellectual elite during the tumultous 1970s.

Bruce Feiler, bestselling author and award-winning journalist, was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. On learning this, he decided to approach six friends who could each provide advice and support to his young twin daughters through their lives should he die. This book is the inspiring story of what ...

Bill Cunningham's first love was fashion but the big city came a close second. He left for New York aged 19, losing his family's support but enjoying the infinite luxury of freedom. Living on a scoop of Ovaltine a day, he would run down to Fifth Avenue to feed on the spectacular sights of the win...

A news-making biography detailing how 'America's Mayor', once beloved around the world, became a tragic figure, and the driving force behind Donald Trump's biggest scandals.

In December 1992, a nine-year-old girl was kidnapped and locked in a secret underground dungeon. She was chained by the neck in a coffin-shaped box. She was regularly raped. She thought she would die in that dank, dark hole. But, somehow, she survived to tell the tale. This is her story.

When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she'd given up as she left New York, her home of th...