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Book Synopsis Brooklyn Mirador by : Richard F. Kessler
Download or read book Brooklyn Mirador written by Richard F. Kessler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated September 2019. This 24-page book is the history of the beautiful view of the Empire State Building bisecting the Civil War memorial Arch in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux ceded control of Central Park to their detractors and then designed their own park - the Brooklyn Park. Their first step was to create the Plaza in 1865 and define its axis aimed at exactly where the Empire State Building would be built 65 years later. “What artist so noble..directs the shadows of a picture so great that Nature shall be employed upon it it for generations, before the work he has arranged for her shall realize his intentions.” – Olmsted, 1852
Book Synopsis Brooklyn Mirador by : Richard F. Kessler
Download or read book Brooklyn Mirador written by Richard F. Kessler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated July 2019. This 84-page book is the history of the beautiful view of the Empire State Building bisecting the Civil War memorial Arch in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux ceded control of Central Park to their detractors and then designed their own park - the Brooklyn Park. Their first step was to create the Plaza in 1865 and define its axis aimed at exactly where the Empire State Building would be built 65 years later. “What artist so noble... directs the shadows of a picture so great that Nature shall be employed upon it it for generations, before the work he has arranged for her shall realize his intentions.” – Olmsted, 1852 This book contains 24 full page photos of the View and a section on the Concert Grove alignment, the Lincoln statue returning to Grand Army Plaza, and "Book Two of the Incomplete Collection" - 24 original drawings and paintings unrelated to the Mirador.
Book Synopsis Calvert Vaux and the View from the Brooklyn Mirador by : Richard F. Kessler
Download or read book Calvert Vaux and the View from the Brooklyn Mirador written by Richard F. Kessler and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After ceding control of Central Park to their detractors, Vaux and Olmsted created their own park...the Brooklyn Park. First they built the Plaza and defined its axis. The axis is the essential element in America's most historic visual corridor. As a work-in- progress, this corridor would, in time, beautifully evoke their concern of an emerging European-style, wealth-based privileged class. Includes 12 full-page color images of the View from the Brooklyn Mirador.
Book Synopsis The Brooklyn Mirador the Secret of Duncan's Arch by : Richard F. Kessler
Download or read book The Brooklyn Mirador the Secret of Duncan's Arch written by Richard F. Kessler and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Somewhere in Brooklyn by : J. K. Savoy
Download or read book Somewhere in Brooklyn written by J. K. Savoy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Somewhere In Brooklyn" is the odyssey of a young man named Joe and his search for identity during the turbulent 1970¿s. Although Joe was entrenched in the traditional values of his Fifties upbringing, the seduction of the Sixties began the erosion of the umbilical lines that tethered him to convention. The Seventies was the knockout punch that forced him to realize that the road to success, that he thought he was riding, was merely a gangplank. Park Slope, Brooklyn is where Joe lands and meets his true self. "Somewhere In Brooklyn" is a work of fiction loosely based on the real life experiences of its author.
Download or read book The Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metronome written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Brooklyn Stories by : Andrew Bernstein
Download or read book The Brooklyn Stories written by Andrew Bernstein and published by Hybrid Global Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brooklyn Stories is a collection of tales chronicling varied characters in sizzling conflicts regarding major values.For example: Will a philosophy professor overcome heartbreak and anger at romantic betrayal to collaborate with his triumphant rival on writing the novel they both cherish? Can a high school teacher and former Marine, reared in a criminal family, protect from that familys murderous intent his innocent best friend? Can a brilliant boxer clean the hoods mean streets of brutal thugs and win back the girlfriend that his neglect permitted to be savagely assaulted? How do multiple survivors of a violent school invasion deal with the aftermath of the tragic event? These are just some of the vivid characters and conflicts gracing the pages of this collection.
Book Synopsis My Brooklyn . . . Your Brooklyn by : Kevin J. Leddy
Download or read book My Brooklyn . . . Your Brooklyn written by Kevin J. Leddy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis A Place Called Brooklyn by : Frank Cornacchiulo
Download or read book A Place Called Brooklyn written by Frank Cornacchiulo and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in the 1940's and 50's in a place called Brooklyn, the center of our universe was located deep in the section called Red Hook and Bushwick. At Smith-9th, the old IND Subway is grandly elevated as the highest elevated station in both Brooklyn and the city, conforming to old regulations that allow tall-mast ships to navigate the Gowanus Canal. The metal trestles and pillars are constructed of concrete. Like that grand station, so are our memories casts in a concrete never-dying remembrance of what life was like once upon a time. A generation of very poor children living in Brooklyn, NY post World War II lived in cold water flats. Their immigrant parents arrived here from such places as Ireland, Italy, Germany, Puerto Rico, and were mainly unskilled laborers. They struggled day to-day to support their families with basic needs and an education with a deep God-abiding focus on hope for the future. Out of that setting, we would like to take you by the literary hand and revisit some of the experiences that made Bushwick, and Red Hook, in our lives so memorable. Join us as we document and recall eye-witnessed accounts of some of these experiences. Join us as we view street games we played, many of these games self-taught and many others passed along from one generation to the next. Imagine these children not having electronics with perhaps the exception of a portable radio. Many living in cold-water flats or apartments, with or without an indoor toilet. This meant whoever did not have an indoor toilet, used an outhouse: a narrow shack located outside the building without plumbing! Generally, a flat had two or three rooms, no heat, and no hot water from a sink, no bathtub, maybe a laundry sink, which could double as a bathtub. Some apartments had a coal stove for cooking food and the stove also provided heat. The children lived with their parents, grandparents and in some cases along with aunts and uncles. These children would wake up every morning, to a meager breakfast and either sent off to school or let out of their home to fend for themselves. But the rule was: they were expected to return home for dinner and be on time. These stories are not meant to chronicle pain and suffering that a generation endured, but to document some the experiences growing up on the streets of the densely- populated Brooklyn. Their ingenuity bested boredom through street games and spontaneous adventures. Games like tag, buck/buck, hide & go seek, one and over, ring-a-leavee-o, and others that did not require a ball, rope, skates, bat, baseball cards, marbles, straws etc occupied our time. And, we can add to this mix various adventure games that involved fireworks, chalk, balloons, lumber, sticks, yo-yos, straws, also discarded items (Skates, Gallon Glass Jars, Cans, Carriages, etc.) that could be recycled into a game or new object. These stories feature 'Pepino' a nine-year-old Italian American kid, who lives with his mother, father and teenage sister in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn New York during a summer right after World War II, and told through his eyes.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Brooklyn Bridge by : Bernice Carton
Download or read book Beyond the Brooklyn Bridge written by Bernice Carton and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of 1920s Brooklyn, describing in minute detail the daily lives of its inhabitants. The heroine is a girl for whom beyond the Brooklyn Bridge is a foreign country. A debut in fiction.
Book Synopsis Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir by : Truman Capote
Download or read book Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir written by Truman Capote and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2001, Truman Capote’s stylish homage to Brooklyn was brought back into print, but not until 2014— more than fifty years after they were taken—were the original photographs commissioned to illustrate the essay discovered by the late photographer’s son. Also found among the negatives were previously unknown portraits of Capote; none of the photos had ever been published. Now, with the publication of Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir, with the lost photographs of David Attie, the words and images are united for the first time. With an introduction by George Plimpton and afterword by Eli Attie.
Book Synopsis The Belvederes of Brooklyn by : David Arturi
Download or read book The Belvederes of Brooklyn written by David Arturi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Italian-American novel that is bold and honest in its treatment of detailing the years of America's Great Depression. The story, based on some true incidents, is, however, a fictional memoir, passionate in its themes, yet thought-provoking, engrossing, and volcanic. The story opens with the impoverished Belvederes moving into a new neighborhood in Brooklyn, all family members being unaware of impending doom. Near them lives a wealthy and beautiful young widow who is immediately attracted to Adrian. How does he, the youngest son, a recent parochial school graduate, thwart the advances of the neighborhood Jezebel? Does he want to?
Download or read book Brooklyn written by Colm Tóibín and published by Le Livre de Poche. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enniscorthy, Irlande, années 1950. Comme de nombreuses jeunes femmes de son âge, Eilis Lacey ne parvient pas à trouver du travail. Par l’entremise d’un prêtre, on lui propose un emploi en Amérique, à Brooklyn. Poussée par sa famille, Eilis s’exile à contre-cœur. D’abord submergée par le mal du pays, elle goûte ensuite, loin du regard de ceux qui la connaissent depuis toujours, une sensation de liberté proche du bonheur. Puis un drame familial l’oblige à retraverser l’Atlantique. Une fois de retour au pays, Brooklyn se voile de l’irréalité des rêves. Eilis ne sait plus à quel monde elle appartient, quel homme elle aime, quelle vie elle souhaite. Elle voudrait ne pas devoir choisir, ne pas devoir trahir. Un tableau magistral et sensible du Brooklyn des années 1950. Un roman qu’on lit d’une traite, sur l’exil, l’identité, la rupture avec une communauté. Josyane Savigneau, Le Monde des livres. Traduit de l’anglais (Irlande) par Anna Gibson.
Book Synopsis Indigenous America in the Spanish Language Classroom by : Anne Fountain
Download or read book Indigenous America in the Spanish Language Classroom written by Anne Fountain and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many Spanish language teachers have little understanding of the indigenous languages and cultures that are part of the Spanish-speaking Americas. This book proposes to fill that gap and help teachers include the history and culture of Indigenous Peoples using a social justice lens. Indigenous America begins with an overview of the history of colonialism throughout the Spanish-speaking Americas and ties it to language teaching curricula and standards. Each substantive chapter ends with a list of conclusions, a list of questions for discussion and debate, and a set of teaching topics and concrete classroom exercises. Fountain will include photographs of places, people, and artifacts to make this history tangible. Appendices with more details about incorporating some rich resources into the Spanish language classroom are included, as is a glossary of important terms. This book is the first resource of its kind and is timely--teachers are eager to include more voices in their courses"--
Download or read book Found in Brooklyn written by Thomas Roma and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooklyn is often thought of as a world of its own. For the photographer Thomas Roma, Brooklyn is the place of his boyhood, a place of lush gardens and expanses of white cement, of the merging of old country and new world. In these photographs, made over a period of twenty years, Roma finds images of the neighborhoods that shaped him. Roma is a rare photographer who, without resorting to technical gimmicks, offers us pure photography. He looks directly into the mundane and from it creates poetry, mystery, and surprise. An old man sits in his undershirt surrounded by the flowering beauty he has created. A boy lies on an overpass, dreaming, as cars rush beneath him. Roma's pictures take us through streets and passages, abandoned lots and backyards, to give us glimpses of Brooklyn that are at turns amusing, forlorn, stunning, and surreal.
Book Synopsis Deep Down in Brooklyn by : Ed German
Download or read book Deep Down in Brooklyn written by Ed German and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book is a memoir about growing up in Brooklyn in the 50s and 60s. The title is Deep Down in Brooklyn. It is an illustrated book, 400 pages with 127 historic and personal photographs. It is a story largely untold and in great detail about urban living, and includes service with the Marines in Vietnam. I've lived all over New York and now live on Eastern Long Island where I host a nightly jazz radio program at Long Island's Public Radio station, WPPB - Peconic Public Broadcasting 88.3 FM. My program is heard Monday to Friday evenings, 8pm - 11pm. I have been on the air for over 14 years.
