New York City Yesterday and Today: Exploring the City's Tax Photographs

New York City Yesterday and Today: The Tax Photographs features the little-known, but utterly fascinating tax photographs from The City of New York’s Hall of Records and how those areas look today. The photographs are an interesting page in the history of the city’s municipal workings alone, but are a fascinating look into daily city life in the 1940’s. They were taken to help figure out property tax assessments. Incredibly, city officials employed a team of photographers to go out to all five boroughs and photograph literally every building in the city. The result is tens of thousands of photos of practically every nook and cranny of the streets of New York. Readers will marvel at the changes some neighborhoods have undergone, whereas some parts of the city have remained remarkably unchanged. It’s a remarkable look at the city’s past and present.

New York
Originals

This 240 page, full color hardcover companion book to the “New York Originals” TV series profiling small businesses and mom and pop shops throughout the city’s five boroughs. Published by Rizzoli International, readers can visit seventy-five places that help make New York City the most unique city in the world.

No Access
New York

Published by Globe Peuqot “No Access New York City is a collection of the hidden places and little-known facts about New York. Through these pages explore the secret train station below the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the gold vault at the Federal Reserve, burial sites, tucked away establishments and secret tunnels and so much more. All of these spots evoke a secret metropolis lost to time and harboring deep mysteries.

Boston
Book

Boston’s Freedom Trail and Beyond Book is another book written by Jamie, this time to profile the great city of Boston, Massachusetts. The softcover book is meant to accompany you as you explore the hightlights and supriseses of this extremely historic city. With over seventy-five photographs, drawings and maps, visitors can be assured they will see the iconic landmarks such as the Old North Church, but also the more unusual ones, such as the site of the Great Molasses Disaster. Million of gallons of the stuff viturally distroyed an entire neighborhood. This and many other historic tidbits can be found in this beloved book.