In forty short years, New York City suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways, streetlights, and Central Park, with sprawling bridges that connected the once-distant boroughs. In Manhattan, more than a million poor immigrants crammed into tenements, while the half of the millionaires in the entire country lined Fifth Avenue with their opulent mansions.

"The Gilded Age in New York" captures what is was like to live in Gotham then, to be a daily witness to the city's rapid evolution.
Newspapers, autobiographies, and personal diaries offer fascinating glimpses into daily life among the rich, the poor, and the surprisingly large middle class.

"The Gilded Age in New York" is an illustrated look at this amazing time in both the city and the country as a whole. Author Esther Crain, the go-to authority on the era, weaves first-hand accounts and fascinating details into a vivid tapestry of American society at the turn of the century.

Hardcover, 304 pages