Description: This is one of the most popular books ever published about the great metropolis. It is also the most essential and comprehensive guide to its buildings -- brownstones, churches, synagogues, museums, monuments, theaters, etc. In 1,000 pages, the guide is organized by borough, then by neighborhood. There is a section on how the city's topography has influenced building styles, and a "necrology" section notes buildings that have fallen to the wrecking ball since the last edition. Compared with other guides to NYC, The AIA Guide is known for its lively and humorous writing style. The authors, "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision" (New York), never fail to praise elegant restoration jobs and new construction rising in the city, nor do they fail to condemn the eyesores blighting the cityscape.

For this revised edition, Norval White has visited hundreds of new structures and revisited all 5,000 buildings from the last edition. Accompanying the pithy descriptions of these buildings will be approximately 3,000 photographs (1,000 were in the last edition). Descriptions and critiques of buildings are interspersed with fascinating bits of local information that illuminate NYC's history. It is a definitive record of New York's architectural heritage and provides a compact, authoritative directory for architects and all lovers of New York City.

Please Wait