Author : Edward I. Koch
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 2007-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416585206
Only Ed Koch could have written Mayor. It is the liveliest, most gripping, most outspoken and most authentic book ever written about government. Mayor is the frank, feisty, no-holds-barred account of what it's like to run the greatest city in the world, written with the irrepressible honesty, anecdotal humor and tough-minded compassion that make the Mayor - and the city he governs - unique.
Author : David Levering Lewis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0140263349
"A major study...one that thorougly interweaves the philosophies and fads, the people and movements that combined to give a small segment of Afro America a brief place in the sun."—The New York Times Book Review.
Author : Gloria Pilar Totoricaguena
Publisher : Center for Basque Studies Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
Generations of Basques in New York have vibrantly exercised their culture, language, values, and traditions, transmitting to their children a robust sense of ethnic identity. In today's world of globalization it is often assumed that particular communities are disappearing as a consequence of the factors of homogenization. However, the Basques have proved this false. Depicting Basque mutual aid societies, language courses, musical and dance troupes, cuisine classes, community activities, sport, political involvement, and ties to homeland institutions are just a few of the ingredients which mix to compose the chapters of this work. Readers will learn about the history and reasons why Basques left the Pyrenees of northern Spain and southern France from the personal experiences of political and economic exiles' oral histories. Original archival research allows us to discover the features of the early 1900s Centro Vasco-Americano, the Basque Government-in-exile Delegation in New York, and the development of Basque organizations. "Basqueness" is being redefined in this transnational cosmopolitan community, and with the pioneer spirit of their ancestors, latter generation Basques are nurturing and promoting Basque culture and identity to the world.
Author : Michael Henry Adams
Publisher : Monacelli Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2001-12-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580930703
Long identified with African-American style and culture, Harlem is also a pillar of New York's social and architectural history. In this beautifully illustrated study, historian Michael Henry Adams presents an evocative portrait of the various and divergent Harlems of yesteryear, from the Native American settlements discovered by the Dutch in the seventeenth century to the vibrant community of present-day preservationists. In addition to the legacy of residential architecture—Dutch farmhouses, Native American longhouses, mansions and country villas, thoughtfully planned row houses, and handsome apartment buildings, the author examines schools, industrial facilities, stores, churches, and more. Harlem's spectrum of designers ranges from the well known—McKim, Mead & White, responsible for part of Strivers' Row; George B. Post & Sons, architects of the monumental Shepard Hall at the City College of the City University of New York—to practitioners who, though today mostly forgotten, designed much of the urban fabric of Harlem and New York City. All have contributed to an extraordinarily rich streetscape that today preserves the best of Harlem's past.
Author : C. Alexander Hortis
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1616149248
Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on exhaustive research of archives and secret files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, author and attorney C. Alexander Hortis draws on the deepest collection of primary sources, many newly discovered, of any history of the modern mob. Shattering myths, Hortis reveals how Cosa Nostra actually obtained power at the inception. The author goes beyond conventional who-shot-who mob stories, providing answers to fresh questions such as: * Why did the Sicilian gangs come out on top of the criminal underworld? * Can economics explain how the Mafia families operated? * What was the Mafia's real role in the drug trade? * Why was Cosa Nostra involved in gay bars in New York since the 1930s? Drawing on an unprecedented array of primary sources, The Mob and the City is the most thorough and authentic history of the Mafia's rise to power in the early-to-mid twentieth century.
Author : Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers
Publisher :
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 15,92 MB
Release : 1895
Category : German Americans
ISBN :
Author : Allan Tannenbaum
Publisher : Gerald Duckworth
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Arts
ISBN : 9780715641699
New York in The 70s is a remarkable body of work produced by photographer Allan Tannenbaum while he was photo editor of the SoHo Weekly News in Manhattan. Based mainly on news and feature stories assigned by the paper, the photographs encompass many aspects of New York life while capturing the heady exuberance of the 1970s and early 1980s. SoHo and the art world were his primary subjects, yet the images also provide a broad chronicle of the city's politics and society. Entertainment - especially the music scene - and night life became a large part of the editorial mix. The collision of continuing 1960s counterculture with the remnants of Nixon, Watergate, and Vietnam, coupled with a stagnant economy, was a catalytic force that resulted in an explosion of creativity. By photographing everything from street gangs to disco divas, from homeless to Hollywood stars, Tannenbaum had assembled a personal diary of his journey as a photojournalist and raconteur through a strange era in New York. His studio portraits, night-time flashes, and street photography paint an unique and often unseen picture of the 1970s.
Author : Wallace John Eckert
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Lunar theory
ISBN :
Author : Wallace John Eckert
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Astronomy
ISBN :
Author : Bernard B. Kerik
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 10,71 MB
Release : 2002-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060508825
An autobiography of the life, challenges, and law enforcement career of Bernard B. Kerik, who was New York City's Police Commissioner when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
