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Ghosts of New York City | 
 enlarge | Author: Therese Lanigan-schmidt
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1579760
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0764317148
Dewey Decimal Number: 133
EAN: 9780764317149
ASIN: 0764317148
Publication Date: August 30, 2003
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Product Description
The busy metropolis of New York, so rich with history and life, is also home to some of the creepiest and spookiest ghosts around. From the Metropolitan Opera House to the dazzling lights of Broadway, and even down the massive network of subway lines under the city, ghosts and ghouls provide folklore to pique the curiousities of tourists and locals alike. Here, historic landmarks, private mansions, and even public parks are possessed by restless spirits who, like so many others, found New York and decided to stay. Explore haunted hotels, bars, restaurants, and shops and admire interesting photographs that illustrate haunted locales.
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 City of the Dead September 19, 2008
I agree with the previous review, the editing is pathetic. I wasn't sure if the author was converting stories told by someone else into print without the aid of a spell checker, but it detracted from the narrative and it isn't mentioned that the stories are transcriptions. The tone is academic, further detracted the reader because of the elementary mistakes making the two incongruous.
The sad quality of the photographs also bothered me, I used a magnifying glass to try and see into the overexposed snapshots. The Van Cortland house photo was the best of the reproductions. If it was an effort to convey the dark and eerie side of the city it failed.
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 Reads like a poorly edited history textbook... November 3, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is okay. Very informative, atleast! However, the font style and size used in the print makes it very difficult to read. It seems as though the author/publisher/printer/whoever tried to give it an "eerie" look, but it just resulted in giving me a headache!
As for the ghostly stories, the history behind them is excellent and makes for a very interesting read. Unfortunately, it seems as though the author (although I cannot confirm this) opened up a few old books and copied what was written verbatim. There are no personal touches here. It is very cut and dry, often making me wonder how much the author truly knows of these places about which she writes. Also, many of the tales are two pages worth of history and back story with a sentence at the end saying something along the lines of, "And, once, John the custodian saw a spectral image float by the stairs." Not much of a ghost story if you ask me!
The editing is where this book really falls flat. There are countless mispellings and grammatical errors. I found myself rereading a section of nearly every page trying to decipher what it was exactly Lanigan-Schmidt was trying to say. This doesn't make for a very enjoyable read when you're forced to try and translate someone's poor English!
All in all, a book worth reading if you really want to know where to find some NYC Ghosts. Other than that, completely boring and unengaging.
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