Brooklyn-- and how it Got that Way
Author : David W. McCullough
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : David W. McCullough
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Publisher : Hawthorne Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0983850445
An injury at birth left Audrey with a wandering eye. Though flawed, the bad eye functions well enough to permit her an idiosyncratic view of the world, one she welcomes in the stifling postwar Brooklyn of the 1950s. During a journey to Manhattan to see a doctor about her sight, she begins to explore the sexual rites of adulthood. But can her romance last? In this beautifully observed novel, Lynne Sharon Schwartz raises themes of innocence and escape while illuminating the rich inner life of a singular girl.
Author : Peter Caruso
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2015-03-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780764347870
Trace the evolution of the Brooklyn tattooing scene's iconographic status with this rare look into the borough's gritty history. Long before hipsters called Brooklyn home, tattoo legends like Tony Polito, Mikey Perfetto, Marcus Pacheco, and Ronnie Dell'Aquila set long-lasting trends from the '50s on, and gave young artists hope in this often unforgiving town. Peter Caruso visits over a dozen owners, artists, and customers, relating Brooklyn's 20th-century tattoo history through biographies of gritty, no-nonsense tattoo artists. Here, they get the attention they deserve as they focus on events that shaped their craft and style and what inspired them, as teenagers, to follow the path of this often thankless profession in New York's toughest borough. "Back in the day," artists didn't apprentice, but, like the men in this book, learned the ropes in basements and worked out of kitchens, sometimes experimenting with Asian and tribal styles, but always returning to the colorful, traditional, American tattooing Brooklyn is known for.
Author : Alan M. Gratz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101014806
1845: Felix Schneider, an immigrant from Germany, cheers the New York Knickerbockers as they play Three-Out, All-Out. 1908: Walter Snider, batboy for the Brooklyn Superbas, arranges a team tryout for a black pitcher by pretending he is Cuban. 1945: Kat Snider of Brooklyn plays for the Grand Rapids Chicks in the All-American Girls Baseball League. 1981: Michael Flint fi nds himself pitching a perfect game during the Little League season at Prospect Park. And there are fi ve more Schneiders to meet. In nine innings, this novel tells the stories of nine successive Schneider kids and their connection to Brooklyn and baseball. As in all family histories and all baseball games, there is glory and heartache, triumph and sacrifi ce. And it ain?t over till it?s over.
Author : Martin Lewis Blumberg
Publisher : Xlibris Us
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781796070675
There must be something in our souls that cries out to explain to the world not only who we are but also how it was we got to be the person our friends and family know and love. For Martin Blumberg, the path of explaining himself to the world begins by understanding the way the world around him influenced his experiences and choices and how he interacted with family, friends, teachers, and neighborhood businesses as he grew up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. What puzzles us all is the mystery of how the kids we grew up with in those same surroundings went on to become either well-educated and respected professionals and businessmen, or gangsters and incarcerated criminals. Ultimately, growing up is a never-ending series of choices and interactions, some good, some not so, but ultimately, in balance, the better choices lead us to the happiness and self-satisfaction we enjoy, along with our many accomplishments. My dear friend Marty Blumberg has traveled a fascinating and unique path as he grew up in Brownsville and then to Canarsie neighborhoods, which colored and influenced his early life and molded him to become the great guy we all know and love. This is Martin's story, and it beautifully explains him to all of us, and, no doubt, through his introspections and insights, most importantly, explains him to himself. -Roger Elowitz
Author : Leonard Benardo
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2006-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0814799469
From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. These pages take readers on a stroll through the streets and places of this thriving metropolis to reveal the borough's textured past. Over 500 of Brooklyn's most prominent place names are organized alphabetically by region. Photos & maps.
Author : Kevin J. Leddy
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1543428584
Let me just say that if you took two people who grew up in different neighborhoods in Brooklyn and sat them down in a room together they could talk for hours on end and basically share the same stories as if they grew up right next door to each other You see that is why I am writing this book. The stories that I will share with you as you turn each page do not belong to me exclusively. They are YOUR stories just as much as they are mine. All you really have to do is change the names and faces and use your own neighborhood as their back drop and believe me they are yours. I have included after each story an empty page for you to put your story on it so it will become “Your Brooklyn “ and a journal to pass on to those who you wish to remember your story
Author : Michael W. Robbins
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761116356
A celebration of Brooklyn features more than one hundred original articles that tap into the life of "America's Hometown."
Author : Larry King
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781560546610
Author : Colm Toibin
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0771085400
Winner of the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín's internationally bestselling novel is a story of devastating emotional power. At the centre of Colm Tóibín's internationally celebrated novel is Eilis Lacey, one among many of her generation who has come of age in 1950s Ireland but cannot find work at home. When she receives a job offer in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country behind, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, however, the pain of parting and a longing for home are buried beneath the rhythms of her new life—until she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, tragic news summons her back to Ireland, where she unexpectedly finds herself facing an impossible decision.