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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and financial one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new Manhattan megatowers known as Billionaires' Row-from a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal. To look south from Central Park these days is to gaze upon a physical manifestation of tens of billions of dollars in global wealth: a series of soaring spires dotting the skyline from Park Avenue to Broadway....
62) Eyes wide shut
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A wife's admission of unfulfilled sexual longings plunges Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker, into an erotic odyssey that could destroy his marriage and ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery.
63) El apartamento
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
They come together by chance in the heart of New York City, four young women at turning points in their lives. Claire Kelly finds the walk-up apartment--a spacious loft in Hell's Kitchen. But the aspiring shoe designer needs at least one roommate to manage it. She meets Abby Williams, a writer trying to make it on her own, far away from her successful family in L.A. Four years later, Morgan Shelby joins them. She's ambitious, with a serious finance...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Harvey wrestles with complicated feelings when Donna leaves him to work for Louis. Louis gets his own share of betrayal when his successful sister wants legal representation by the firm; just not by him. Mike finds himself on the wrong side of the law when he is arrested, jeopardizing his relationship with Rachel and the very future of the firm. Jessica is forced to decide if Harvey ultimately is the right person to stand by her side.
65) Dark days
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Documentary about a community of homeless people living in a train tunnel beneath Manhattan. Depicts a way of life that is unimaginable to most of those who walk the streets above: in the pitch black of the tunnel, rats swarm through piles of garbage as high-speed trains leaving Penn station tear through the darkness. For some of those who have gone underground, it has been home for as long as 25 years.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As Ghost mourns his daughter's death, he searches for vengeance and throws himself into his work, reaching new professional heights. But his quest for blood threatens to dismantle his legitimate legacy. He's blind to new enemies, and as the feds grow closer to unmasking his true identity. Ghost must remain vigilant toward those wanting to take him down for his past criminal enterprises.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The story of a divorcee, Paula McFadden, who begins a new life with her daughter, Lucy. Paula's life is thrown for an even bigger loop when an egotistical actor, Elliot Garfield, sublets her Manhattan apartment from her wayward boyfriend. Despite their initial hostility, this unlikely pair discovers romance as they help each other cope with the hardships of life in the big city.
69) Girlfriends
Series
Criterion collection volume 1055
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A woman must adjust to life on her own when her good friend and roommate gets married and leaves.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Bachelor Bill Davis, a highly-paid engineering consultant, lives in a posh Manhattan apartment with his proper English manservant, Mr. Giles French. Davis' carefree existence is turned upside down when his brother and sister-in-law die suddenly in a tragic plane accident, leaving their three children orphaned. Davis becomes an instant father figure to six-year-old twins, Buffy and Jody, and their big sister, Cissy. Despite their reservations, Davis...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Language
English
Description
"Su cara lo hace distinto y él solo quiere ser uno más. Camina siempre mirando al suelo, la cabeza gacha y el Ưflequillo tratando en vano de esconder su rostro, pero, aun así, es objeto de miradas furtivas, susurros ahogados y codazos de asombro. August sale poco. Su vida transcurre entre las acogedoras paredes de su casa, entre la compañía de su familia, su perra Daisy y las increíbles historias de La guerra de las galaxias. Este año...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Walking Manhattan by Ellen Levitt is written with many people in mind: the tourists who have never before visited Manhattan as well as those returning to the Big Apple; the residents who want to ramble through parts of Gotham with which they are less familiar; the 'I've seen it all' New Yorker who is willing to consult a new source and find 'new' sights and sounds that interest them. Readers can pick and choose how and where they investigate Manhattan...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As Ghost mourns his daughter's death, he searches for vengeance and throws himself into his work, reaching new professional heights. But his quest for blood threatens to dismantle his legitimate legacy. He's blind to new enemies, and as the feds grow closer to unmasking his true identity. Ghost must remain vigilant toward those wanting to take him down for his past criminal enterprises.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Divorced New Yorkers Felix and Oscar live together despite their opposing personalities. As Oscar works hard to keep roommate Felix out of his life, Felix works even harder to involve Oscar in his. This season, Felix ropes Oscar into dancing in a ballet, appearing in an opera, and even starring in a movie. Also, numerous flashbacks give us a peek into their early lives, including Oscar as a young slob.
75) Working girls
Series
Criterion collection volume 1087
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in Lizzie Borden's immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society's most stigmatized profession. Inspired by the experiences of the sex workers Borden met while making her underground feminist landmark Born in Flames, Working Girls reveals the textures of a day in the life of Molly (Louise Smith), a photographer working part-time in a Manhattan brothel, as she juggles a steady...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world. War has raged in the Middle East for a decade and a half, and Americans have become accustomed to surveillance, enhanced security, and periodic terrorist attacks. But the symbolic locus of the post-9/11 world has always been "Ground Zero"--The sixteen acres in Manhattan's financial district...
77) Girlfriends
Series
Criterion collection volume 1055
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
"When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out to get married, Susan (Melanie Mayron), trying to be an artist while making ends meet as a bar mitzvah photographer on Manhattan's Upper West Side, finds herself adrift in both life and love. A wonder of American independent cinema by Claudia Weill (who, when she was admitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a director in 1981, was one of only four women ever to have received...
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When their father takes a job in Japan, rambunctious, spontaneous, impulsive and disorganized sixteen-year-old Holly Tyler moves in with her twenty-eight-year-old organization freak sister, Valerie, in Manhattan-- and the sisters discover they may make better siblings than roomies.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In New York City, when a crime is committed, the victims are represented by two distinct yet intertwined forces. There's the police department, represented by the 27th precinct Homicide Detectives. It is their job to investigate the crime, collect evidence, and interview witnesses. Suspects are placed under arrest. The matter is then taken over by the prosecutors of the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Show boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.
Annie get your gun: Annie Oakley...
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