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Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850 [Paperback]

Elizabeth Blackmar (Author)

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Publication Date: December 1991

Winner of the Vernacular Architecture Forum's Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize for 1990

"In this interesting and wide-ranging book, Elizabeth Blackmar investigates the development of New York City's housing market from colonial times to 1850. She discusses public officials, landowners, builders, renters and tenants, and the interplay among and between these groups as the value of land in the city skyrocketed in the early nineteenth century and made renting the only possibility for most New Yorkers."--American Studies International

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Blackmar explains how the economic boom in the early 19th century caused land values in Manhattan to rise, forcing homeowners to augment their incomes by taking boarders while less wealthy proprietors turned wage-workers had to rent rather than purchase living quarters. Illustrated. no PW review
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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr (December 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801499739
ISBN-13: 978-0801499739
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 inches
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Blackmar creates a complete picture of the renter-rentier system in New York City. An excellent historical work, even if it is a bit dry at times. A must read for any urban history enthusiast.

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ALL CULTURES have their creation myths, and according to cherished New York legend, the Manhattan real estate market was born when the Dutch paid $24 in shells to the Indians for an island that is today worth billions of dollars. Read the first page

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New York, Trinity Church, Five Points, Common Council, Chambers Street, Hudson Valley, Greenwich Village, East River, Anthony Street, John Pintard, John Jacob Astor, Morgan Lewis, New Jersey, The Social Meanings of Housing, Bowling Green, City Hall, Pearl Street, Charles Osborn, Henry Rutgers, Hudson River, John Griscom, Long Island, Tilden Foundations, Wallach Division of Art, Corlear's Hook

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