Research Guides: Researching a School in the Bronx: Books

Book based on Bronx Oral History Collection at Lehman College, Leonard Lief Library

The Bronx Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide by William B. Helmreich
Call Number: HN80.B76 H45 2023
ISBN: 9780691166957
Publication Date: 2023-08-08
Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City--some six thousand miles--to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Later, he re-walked most of the Bronx to create this one-of-a-kind walking guide to the city's northern borough, from Mott Haven to City Island.
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South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City by Jill Jonnes; Nilka Martell (Foreword by)
Call Number: F128.68 B8 .J65 2022
ISBN: 9781531501211
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
Boulevard of Dreams by Constance Rosenblum
Call Number: F128.68.B8 R67 2009
ISBN: 9780814776087
Publication Date: 2009-08-01
Parkchester : A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity by Jeffrey S. Gurock
Call Number: F128.9.A1 G87 2019
ISBN: 9781479896707
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
Fredomland: Co-co City and the Story of New York by Sammartino, Annemarie
Call Number: HD 7287.72 .U62 N567 2022
ISBN: 9781501716447
Publication Date: 2022
Schools and school days in Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Spuyten Duyvil: New York City; the history of public education in the Northwest Bronx.