Blackmar, Elizabeth, 1950-

Manhattan for rent, 1785-1850 / Elizabeth Blackmar.

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©1989.

xiii, 348 pages ; 25 cm

In this interesting and wide-ranging book, Elizabeth Blackmar investigates the development of New York City's housing market from colonial times to 1850. She discusses public officials, landowners, builders, renters and tenants, and the interplay among and between these groups as the value of land in the city skyrocketed in the early nineteenth century and made renting the only possibility for most New Yorkers.

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Rental housing New York (State) New York History.
Real estate development New York (State) New York History.
Land tenure New York (State) New York History.
Landlords New York (State) New York History.
Logement locatif New York (État) New York Histoire.
Promotion immobilière New York (État) New York Histoire.
Locateurs New York (État) New York Histoire.
Economic history.
Land tenure.
Landlords.
Real estate development.
Rental housing.
Social conditions
Wohnungsmarkt
Woningmarkt.
Huurwoningen.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Economic conditions.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York Manhattan.
New York (N.Y.)
New York (City). Real property, history

History.

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