Rare 1940s Analysis of New York City
"New York City Market Analysis"
Spiral-bound book in cloth covers, 1943, 237 pages, compiled and published by News Syndicate Co., The New York Times Co., Daily Mirror, and Hearst Consolidated Publications, with five pages of introductory text and 116 double-page spreads for different areas of the city, each with one page of photographs and one page with a map, a synopsis of the area and statistics on the types of buildings as well as the race and wealth (owner or tenant, monthly expenditures etc) of the residents, 24 are of Manhattan, 20 the Bronx, 28 Brooklyn, 35 Queens, and 9 Richmond/Staten Island, with six composite fold-out maps bound at the back of the book (one for each borough and one of the entire city) listing additional statistics on trade and business on the reverse of each sheet; with a past owner's name written in ink on the title page (dated 1943) and with ink annotations on 11 maps all in the same hand primarily noting where someone lived at a particular time, where someone was born, what a particular building was etc., and four other maps with short pencil annotations, in a different hand, three written in 1951 giving updated information about the ethnic break-down of that area; somewhat faded red cloth covers, toning to some pages and some small areas of paper loss by the plastic spiral, a few lower corners slightly bumped, otherwise a good copy of this rare book and a fascinating insight into the city at mid-century
Sheets 8 /4 x 11 inches
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