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Homberger, Eric. Mrs. Astor’s New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.
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Taylor, William R., ed. Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World. NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1991.