Tenements, Towers & Trash

An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City

Ranked #66 in New York City

A New York Times Notable Book of 2017!

Here is New York,
as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's.

In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York-the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State...
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