A History of Housing in New York City by Richard Plunz

A History of Housing in New York City

Columbia History of Urban Life

Richard Plunz

512 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement wer...

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