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The history of a single square foot of Manhattan can yield lifetimes of information. In “Decoding Manhattan,” a coffee-table book to be published later this month, the editors Antonis Antoniou and Steven Heller don’t dutifully outline or summarize the island’s history or geography rather, they revel in the flights of fancy that Manhattan has inspired. They mix eras, genres, and media to tell a multifaceted story about an infinitely layered place.
The sheer amount of specific detail and ephemera that the authors have gathered for a city that changes so rapidly is heartening proof that, even as a new stratum of the city devours the one that came before it, there’s
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