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"[I]ts plentiful images ably portray the changing ethnic, religious, and socio-economic balance of the city as well as its landmarks, past and present. Rock, Moore, and their publishers have packed the book's pages with a plethora of images--so many that they often crowd the page....Were the book's text engaging, one might grudgingly forgive some visual inaccessibility, but instead, one slogs through a morass of sentences that never quite make English sense...."Rock, Howard B. is the author of 'Cityscapes A History of New York in Images' with ISBN 9780231106245 and ISBN 0231106246.
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