FROM Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging incident to heartrending scenes from the Titanic disaster, New York has experienced its fair share of world history.It's the city everyone thinks they know from films, TV and literature - but, in this book, you'll find a collection of superb historic locations that other guides don't mention. Mark Jones takes us on a remarkable journey – with excellent descriptive histories - that you won't find anywhere else.On your historic journey, you'll see the spot where John Lennon was murdered in a crime that rocked the world of music and robbed it of an irreplaceable personality. Take a stroll around the park where the New York World's Fair of 1939-1940 was held.You might want to visit the home of Edgar Allan Poe, the writer famed for his brilliant Gothic style macabre mysteries. Take a peek inside the famed YMCA where Martin Luther King, Jesse Owens and Malcolm X once stayed, or order a plate of Posillipo at Frank Sinatra's favourite restaurant.Walk the decks of a famous World War Two aircraft carrier, and see a 1950s submarine, an original Concorde and the iconic Space Shuttle Enterprise. See the masterpiece of Gothic architecture which was once the tallest building in the world, or bite into a hotdog at the famous seaside playground of New Yorker's.There's more to this metropolis than Times Square and the Empire Statebuilding…
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