"Travelers can be kept plenty busy investigating Manhattan's rich and fascinating history, and this information-packed guide will authoritatively steer all interested visitors to all kinds of historic sites whether they are places where significant people were born or died or where seminal political and cultural events occurred. All of the sites listed are significant to the Big Apple's development." -Booklist "The momentous, outrageous, and often bizarre events chronicled here remind us that the history of New York tells the history of our nation. Clearly, the author has had a long love affair with his adopted home, has investigated its colorful past, and has concluded that he must share this great ... metropolis with all of us."
-Leonard Kniffel American Libraries, on the first edition "New York, that most fascinating of cities, has also, until very recent years, been the most vexingly self-destructive. In this valuable and impressively thorough historical guide, Patrick Bunyan brings together the vanished landmarks-Alfred Ely Beach's secretly-built subway, the superb Singer Building-with those that are still standing: the sedate, innocent-looking building where the ghastly Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire took place, 625 Madison A venue, where Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis reporter for her first day's work at Viking Press in September 1977, and the Stonewall. Street by street, block by block, All Around the Town summons up the lively ghosts that stand at your shoulder whenever you walk through Manhattan."
-Richard F. Snow American Heritage Magazine, on the First Edition