Bibliogrpahy from Joe Gindele
Selected Short Bibliography of Yorkville. Compiled by Joseph
Gindele, July 20, 2019. He welcomes submission of other Yorkville
related material. Contact at: info@YorkvilleTwinsBook.com or
Joseph Gindele, 3540 Yates Ave. No., Crystal, MN 55422.
a. Yorkville
Bodnar, Theodore A. “Letters: Yorkville recalled.” New York Times,
July 3, 1983. [nyt.org]
Boland, Kevin N. One Day as I Stood Lonely: Yorkville. Blooming-
ton, IN: Xlibris, 2010. [258 pp.]
ISBN: 978-1-4415-8349-9.
Dougherty, Martin. Greendougherty’s Blog. See also Facebook.
Ellis, Rosalind, “A Plan to Preserve Yorkville History,” Our Town.
Upper East Side News & Community (New York), May 4, 1980.
Gindele, John & Joseph. Yorkville Twins: Growing Up in New
York City in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s (revised edition).
Golden Valley, MN: Golden Valley Publishing, 2015. [300
pp.] [YorkvilleTwinsBook.com.]
ISBN: 978-0-9839337-6-2.
Gindele, John & Joseph. Yorkville Twins: Growing Up in New
York City in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s (eBook). Golden
Valley, MN: Golden Valley Publishing, 2015.
[YorkvilleTwinsBook.com.]
ISBN: 978-0-9839337-9-3.
Gindele, John & Joseph. Yorkville Twins: Hilarious Adventures
Growing Up in New York City, 1944-1962 (first edition). Gold-
en Valley, MN: Golden Valley Publishing, 2012. [305 pp.]
[YorkvilleTwinsBook.com.]
ISBN: 978-0-9839337-5-5.
Greendougherty. Yorkville on the net.wordpress.com. Also see
Greendougherty Face-book blogs.
Handel, Gerald. Making a Life in Yorkville: Experience and
Meaning in the Life-Course Narrative of an Urban Working-
Class Man. New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 2000. [149 pp]
ISBN: 0-202-30693-3.
Jastrow, Marie. Looking Back: The American Dream Through
Immigrant Eyes: 1907–1918. New York: W.W. Norton &
Company, 1986. [202 pp.]
ISBN: 978-0-393-02348-0.
Jastrow, Marie. A Time to Remember: Growing up in New York
City Before the Great War. New York: W.W. Norton Company,
1979. [174 pp.]
ISBN: 0-393-85001-3.
Leone, Olga. 74th and York: Growing Up Czech in New York City.
Tucson, Arizona: Ghost River Images, 1998. [351 pp.]
ISBN: none.
Lofaso, Anthony. Origins and History of the Village of Yorkville in
the City of New York (second edition). Bloomington, IN: Xlibris,
2015 [292 pp.]
ISBN: 978-1-4990-8548-8.
Lofaso, Anthony. Origins and History of the Village of Yorkville in
the City of New York (first edition). Bloomington, IN: Xlibris,
2010. [126 pp.]
ISBN: 978-1-4500-1940-8.
Miller, Arthur. Little Bastards of Yorkville. Parker, Colorado: Out-
skirts Press, 2017. [83 pp.]
ISBN: 978-1-4787-9190-4.
Pryor, Thomas R. I Hate the Dallas Cowboys: Tales Beyond a
Scrappy New York Boyhood. New York: YBK Publishers,
2014. [304 pp.]
ISBN: 978-1-936411-35-1.
Shaped by Immigrants: A History of Yorkville. New York: Friends
of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, 2018. [81 pp.]
[friends-ues.org.]
ISBN: 978-0-692-18116-4.
Walsh, Bob. Growing up in Yorkville: During the 1950s. Deer Park,
New York: PBJ Enterprises, 2018. [330 pp.]
[Walsh516@aol.com]
ISBN: 978-0-1986164788
Walsh, Bob. Jimmy’s Boy: Devils, Angels and Miracles—True Story
of a Blessed Child. Deer Park, New York: PBJ Enterprises, 2013.
[366 pp.] [Walsh516@aol.com]
ISBN: 978-0-9911717-0-5.
b. Yorkville related
Kelly, Msgr. George A. Inside my Father’s House: A Priest’s Joys and
Struggles with his Church and its People—from 1939 to the Present,
1989. [400 pp]
ISBN: 978-0-385262279.
Marx, Harpo, and Rowland Barber. Harpo Speaks! Limelight ed.
New York: Proscenium Publishers, 1962. [482 pp.]
ISBN: 087910-036-2.
McCabe, John. Cagney. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. [439
pp.]
ISBN: 0-7867-0580-9.
Robinson, Ray. Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time. New York:
HarperPerennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
1990. [300 pp.]
ISBN: 9780393028577.
c. New York City related
Ballard, Charles. L. Images of Rail: Metropolitan New York’s Third
Avenue Railway System. Chicago: Arcadia, 2005. [128 pp.]
ISBN: 0-7385-3810-8.
Diehl, Lorraine B. and Marianne Hardart. The Automat: The
History, Recipes, and Allure of Horn & Hardart’s Master-
piece. New York: Clarkson/Potter Publishers, 2002. [128 pp.]
ISBN: 0-609-610740.
Frommer, Harvey, and Myrna Katz Frommer. It Happened in Man-
hattan: An Oral History of Life in the City During the Mid-
Twentieth Century. New York: Berkley Publishing Group,
2001. [336 pp.]
ISBN: 0-425-18169-3.
Granfield, Linda. 97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant
Life. New York: Tundra Books, 2001. [56 pp.]
ISBN: 9780887765803.
Kendall, Alan. George Gershwin: A Biography. New York: Universe
Books, 1987. [192 pp.]
ISBN: 978-0245543326.
Plunz, Richard. A History of Housing in New York City. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1990. [422 pp.]
ISBN: 9780231062978.
Pryor, Thomas R. River to River: New York Scenes from a Bicycle.
New York: YBK Publishers, 2012. [23 pp.].
ISBN: 978-1-936411-19-1.
Riis, Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tene-
ments of New York. New York: Dover Publishers, 1971. [233 pp.]
Stelter, Lawrence. By the El: Third Avenue and Its El at Mid-Century
(second edition). New York: Stelterfoto, 1995, 2007. [132pp.]
ISBN: 978-0-9777220-1-3.
Stern, Roxanne S. and Graham, Stanley R. A Lifetime worth Remembering:
New York City 1920 to 1960, 2010 [163 pp].
ISBN: 978-1-1453753-1-9.