Author : Melinda Hunt
Publisher : Scalo Publishers
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
Hart Island is a place outside the vision and minds of most New Yorkers, even those who have family buried there. It represents the ultimate melting pot, a place where individual lives are blended beyond recognition. Melinda Hunt
Author : Sharon Seitz
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1581578865
“A well-written and comprehensive tale . . . a lively history of the people and events that forged modern-day New York City.”—The Urban Audubon Experience a seldom-seen New York City with journalists and NYC natives Sharon Seitz and Stuart Miller as they show you the 42 islands in this city’s diverse archipelago. Within the city’s boundaries there are dozens of islands—some famous, like Ellis, some infamous, like Rikers, and others forgotten, like North Brother, where Typhoid Mary spent nearly 30 years in confinement. While the spotlight often falls on the museums, trends, and restaurants of Manhattan, the city’s other islands have vivid and intriguing stories to tell. They offer the day-tripper everything from nature trails to military garrisons. This detailed guide and comprehensive history will give you a sense of how New York City’s politics, population, and landscape have evolved over the last several centuries through the prism of its islands. Full of practical information on how to reach each island, what you’ll see there, and colorful stories, facts, and legends, The Other Islands of New York City is much more than a travel guide.
Author : Michael T. Keene
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1467144045
Just off the coast of the Bronx in Long Island Sound sits Hart Island, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves. Beginning as a Civil War prison and training site and later a psychiatric hospital, the location became the repository for New York City's unclaimed dead. The island's mass graves are a microcosm of New York history, from the 1822 burial crisis to casualties of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and victims of the AIDS epidemic. Important artists who died in poverty have been discovered, including Disney star Bobby Driscoll and playwright Leo Birinski. Author Michael T. Keene reveals the history of New York's potter's field and the stories of some of its lost souls.
Author : Eugene L. Armbruster
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN :
Author : Michael Keene
Publisher : Ad-Hoc Productions
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Erie Canal (N.Y.)
ISBN : 9780998850801
The history of the making of the Erie Canal and the visionaries and prophets who established the great social, religious, and political movements of the 19th century.
Author : Joel Sternfeld
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2001-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780821227527
The successful photographer shares his idiosyncratic vision of life in America by combining his evocative images with the musings of two great writers.
Author : Clifton Hood
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 2004-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801880544
When it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subway ran twenty-two miles from City Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue—the longest stretch ever built at one time. From that initial route through the completion of the IND or Independent Subway line in the 1940s, the subway grew to cover 722 miles—long enough to reach from New York to Chicago. In this definitive history, Clifton Hood traces the complex and fascinating story of the New York City subway system, one of the urban engineering marvels of the twentieth century. For the subway's centennial the author supplies a new foreward explaining that now, after a century, "we can see more clearly than ever that this rapid transit system is among the twentieth century's greatest urban achievements."
Author : Michael T Keene
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 2019-10-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781540240941
Just off the coast of the Bronx in Long Island Sound sits Hart Island, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves. Beginning as a Civil War prison and training site and later a psychiatric hospital, the location became the repository for New York City�s unclaimed dead. The island�s mass graves are a microcosm of New York history, from the 1822 burial crisis to casualties of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and victims of the AIDS epidemic. Important artists who died in poverty have been discovered, including Disney star Bobby Driscol and playwright Leo Birinski. Author Michael T. Keene reveals the history of New York�s potter�s field and the stories of some of its lost souls.
Author : Edward Conlon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2005-04-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1594480737
"A great book... with the testimonial force equal to that of Michael Herr's Dispatches."—Time Edward Conlon's Blue Blood is an ambitious and extraordinary work of nonfiction about what it means to protect, to serve, and to defend among the ranks of New York's finest. Told by a fourth generation NYPD, this is an anecdotal history of New York as experienced through its police force, and depicts a portrait of the teeming street life of the city in all its horror and splendor. It is a story about police politics, fathers and sons, partners who become brothers, old ghosts and undying legacies. Conlon joined the NYPD during the Giuliani administration, when New York City saw its crime rate plummet but also witnessed events that would alter the city, its inhabitants, and its police force forever: polarizing racial cases, the proliferation of the drug trade, and the events of September 11, 2001, and its aftermath. Conlon captures the detail of the landscape, the ironies and rhythms of natural speech, the tragic and the marvelous, firsthand, day after day. A New York Times Notable Book and Finalist for The National Book Criticics Circle Award for Nonfiction.
Author : Cole Thompson and Don Rice
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1467102784
"Inwood, the northern most neighborhood of Manhattan, has a rich yet little-known history. For centuries, the region remained practically unchanged--a quaint, country village known to early Dutch settlers as Tubby Hook. The subway's arrival in the early 1900s transformed the area, once scorned as "ten miles from a beefsteak," from farm to city virtually overnight. The same construction boom sparked an age of neighborhood self-discovery, when vestiges of the past--in the form of mastodon bones, arrowheads, colonial pottery, Revolutionary War cannonballs, and forgotten cemeteries--emerged from the earth. Waves of German, Irish, and Dominican immigrants subsequently produced a vibrant urban oasis with a big-city/small-town feel. Inwood has also been home to wealthy country estates, pre-integration sports arenas, and a lively waterfront culture. Famous residents have included NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Basketball Diaries author Jim Carroll, and Hamilton creator/star Lin-Manuel Miranda."--Publisher's description
