A Brief Description of New York
Author | : Daniel Denton |
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Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Daniel Denton |
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Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Charles Burr Todd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Daniel Denton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Kara Murphy Schlichting |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2019-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022661316X |
The history of New York City’s urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park. New York Recentered boldly shifts the focus to the city’s geographic edges—the coastlines and waterways—and to the small-time unelected locals who quietly shaped the modern city. Kara Murphy Schlichting details how the vernacular planning done by small businessmen and real estate operators, performed independently of large scale governmental efforts, refigured marginal locales like Flushing Meadows and the shores of Long Island Sound and the East River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.
Author | : Denton Daniel Denton |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2009-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1429022213 |
Author | : John W. Leonard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 978 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Carolina Bank Muñoz |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 2022-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520964152 |
This alternative guidebook for one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people’s New York City. The sites and stories of A People’s Guide to New York City shift our perception of what defines New York, placing the passion, determination, defeats, and victories of its people at the core. Delving into the histories of New York's five boroughs, you will encounter enslaved Africans in revolt, women marching for equality, workers on strike, musicians and performers claiming streets for their art, and neighbors organizing against landfills and industrial toxins and in support of affordable housing and public schools. The streetscapes that emerge from these groups' struggles bear the traces, and this book shows you where to look to find them. New York City is a preeminent global city, serving as the headquarters for hundreds of multinational firms and a world-renowned cultural hub for fashion, art, and music. It is among the most multicultural cities in the world and also one of the most segregated cities in the United States. The people that make this global city function—immigrants, people of color, and the working classes—reside largely in the so-called outer boroughs, outside the corporations, neon, and skyscrapers of Manhattan. A People’s Guide to New York City expands the scope and scale of traditional guidebooks, providing an equitable exploration of the diverse communities throughout the city. Through the stories of over 150 sites across the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island as well as thematic tours and contemporary and archival photographs, a people’s New York emerges, one in which collective struggles for justice and freedom have shaped the very landscape of the city.
Author | : Eric W. Sanderson |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 663 |
Release | : 2013-11-27 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1613125739 |
What did New York look like four centuries ago? An extraordinary reconstruction of a wild island from the forests of Times Square to the wetlands downtown. Named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal, New York Magazine, and San Francisco Chronicle On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set foot on the land that would become Manhattan. Today, it’s difficult to imagine what he saw, but for more than a decade, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson has been working to do just that. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is the astounding result of those efforts, reconstructing in words and images the wild island that millions now call home. By geographically matching an eighteenth-century map with one of the modern city, examining volumes of historic documents, and collecting and analyzing scientific data, Sanderson re-creates topography, flora, and fauna from a time when actual wolves prowled far beyond Wall Street and the degree of biological diversity rivaled that of our most famous national parks. His lively text guides you through this abundant landscape—while breathtaking illustrations transport you back in time. Mannahatta is a groundbreaking work that provides not only a window into the past, but also inspiration for the future. “[A] wise and beautiful book, sure to enthrall anyone interested in NYC history.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A cartographical detective tale . . . The fact-intense charts, maps and tables offered in abundance here are fascinating.” —The New York Times “[An] exuberantly written and beautifully illustrated exploration of pre-European Gotham.” —San Francisco Chronicle “You don’t have to be a New Yorker to be enthralled.” —Library Journal
Author | : Salvatore Rubbino |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2017-09-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0763695106 |
New York City the perfect place for a boy and his dad to spend the day! Follow them on their walk around Manhattan, from Grand Central Terminal to the top of the Empire State Building, from Greenwich Village to the Statue of Liberty, learning lots of facts and trivia along the way.
Author | : George L. Kelling |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0684837382 |
Cites successful examples of community-based policing.