Research Catalog

Title

Invisible frontier : exploring the tunnels, ruins, and rooftops of hidden New York / L.B. Deyo & David "Lefty" Leibowitz.

Author

Deyo, L. B.

Publication

New York : Three Rivers Press, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Leibowitz, David.

Description

xvi, 222 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Summary

An adventure guide to New York City's hidden secrets explores a vast urban wilderness that includes subway tunnels, the sewer system, abandoned aqueducts and buildings, the heights of its bridges, and other unusual landmarks.

Subjects

• Trivia and miscellanea
• Biographies
• History
• Adventure and adventurers > New York (State) > New York > Biography
• Leibowitz, David
• Deyo, L. B
• New York (N.Y.) > History > Miscellanea
• Roofs > New York (State) > New York
• Tunnels > New York (State) > New York
• Historic sites > New York (State) > New York
• New York (N.Y.) > Antiquities
• Outdoor recreation > New York (State) > New York
• New York (N.Y.) > Description and travel

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Trivia and miscellanea

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Hell: the deep place (1. Leviathan: the Croton Aqueduct -- 2. Art crimes: the Freedom Tunnel -- 3. The apoteosis of curves: City Hall subway -- 4. The God's-eye view: Grand Central Terminal) -- pt. 2. Purgatory: the hive (5. Into the breach: Smallpox Hospital -- 6. Ghosts of Harlem: the abandoned row house -- 7. Diplomacy: the United Nations -- 8. Tammany's shame: the Tweed Courthouse -- 9. The Athenaeum -- 10. Fire burn and cauldron bubble: North Brother Island and Hell Gate) -- pt. 3. Paradise: into the heavens (11. The bridge of Blackwell's Island: the Queensboro Bridge -- 12. The center of the universe: the George Washington Bridge).

ISBN

0609809318 (trade pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003050731

OCLC

• 52717182
• SCSB-11107452

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library