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Going Coastal, New York City

Author : Barbara La Rocco
Publisher : Going Coastal, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780972980302
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Going Coastal, New York City written by Barbara La Rocco and published by Going Coastal, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ultra-useful guide that brings together all the information necessary to enjoy the waterfront, in a compact, well-organized form - Phillip Lopate, author of Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan Use this guide to discover the beaches, boardwalks, historic sites, and marine attractions, as well as the limitless opportunities for waterside fun, dining, and adventure in the five boros of New York. Designed for travelers and locals, alike, Going Coastal New York City offers the best, most comprehensive information on what's happening along New York City's over 500 miles of coastline.

Going Coastal New York City

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972980326
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Going Coastal New York City written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOING COASTAL NEW YORK CITY explores all 578 miles of waterfront in the five boroughs detailing all of the recreational and cultural opportunities. "The primer to the aquatic Big Apple." John Waldman "An ultra useful guide..." Phillip Lopate"The ZAGAT of the waterfront..." MetroSports

A Maritime History of New York

Author :
Publisher : Going Coastal, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780972980319
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book A Maritime History of New York written by and published by Going Coastal, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally compiled in 1941, this republication retains its cast of colorful characters--ranging from pirates and smugglers to merchants and public officials--and includes new historical information and updated material.

Going Coastal

Author : Wendy French
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765347046
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Going Coastal written by Wendy French and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jody Rogers thought she was taking charge of her life, so why does it feel like everything is spinning out of control? In the space of 24 hours, Jody finds herself single, homeless, and unemployed--just in time for her ten-year high school reunion.

The City is an Ecosystem

Author : Deborah Mutnick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000622967
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The City is an Ecosystem written by Deborah Mutnick and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City is an Ecosystem maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time—climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality—which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world’s population currently live. Across more than twenty chapters, the three parts of the book cover historical and scientific perspectives on the city as an ecosystem; human rights to the city in relation to urban sustainability; and the city as a sustainability classroom at all educational levels inside and outside formal classroom spaces. It argues that such efforts must be interdisciplinary and widespread to ensure an informed public and educated new generation are equipped to face an uncertain future, particularly relevant in the post-COVID-19 world. Gathering multiple interdisciplinary and community-engaged perspectives on these environmental crises, with contemporary and historical case study discussions, this timely volume cuts across the humanities and social and health sciences, and will be of interest to policymakers, urban ecologists, activists, built environment professionals, educators, and advanced students concerned with the future of our cities.

Half Moon

Author : Douglas Hunter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608190986
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Half Moon written by Douglas Hunter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to Henry Hudson's discovery of the river that bears his name recounts how the historical explorer defied commission orders to find an eastern passage to China by redirecting his voyage along the coastline from Spanish Florida to the Grand Banks, an effort that laid a foundation for New York's establishment as a global capital. Reprint.

The Sustainability Myth

Author : Melissa Checker
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479835080
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Sustainability Myth written by Melissa Checker and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictions of sustainable policies in an era driven by real estate development From state-of-the-art parks to rooftop gardens, efforts to transform New York City’s unsightly industrial waterfronts into green, urban oases have received much public attention. In The Sustainability Myth, Melissa Checker uncovers the hidden costs—and contradictions—of the city’s ambitious sustainability agenda in light of its equally ambitious redevelopment imperatives. Focusing on industrial waterfronts and historically underserved places like Harlem and Staten Island’s North Shore, Checker takes an in-depth look at the dynamics of environmental gentrification, documenting the symbiosis between eco-friendly initiatives and high-end redevelopment and its impact on out-of-the-way, non-gentrifying neighborhoods. At the same time, she highlights the valiant efforts of local environmental justice activists who work across racial, economic, and political divides to challenge sustainability’s false promises and create truly viable communities. The Sustainability Myth is a cautionary, eye-opening tale, taking a hard—but ultimately hopeful—look at environmental justice activism and the politics of sustainability.

Going Coastal

Author : Phil Fitzpatrick
Publisher : North Star Press of St. Cloud
ISBN 13 : 9781682010693
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Going Coastal written by Phil Fitzpatrick and published by North Star Press of St. Cloud. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake Superior--its people and places--feature in this anthology of short stories by nine writers from Minnesota and Wisconsin. The power of stories lures an aging man on a road trip back home, north on Highway 61. Through her painting of a river, an Ojibway woman teaches a historian about himself and her culture's connections to the land and water. A woman confronts a suicidal man on Stoney Point, led by the mystical power of water to magnify her psychic abilities. Another woman finds meaning in the intricate curves and fiery bands of an agate. A shoreline boulder offers its magical views on human life. A ship captain from long ago faces a coldwater death in Whitefish Bay. Life comes full circle in the currents of the lake for a young man from Two Harbors. A ghostly fur trapper haunts Madeline Island. A family's powerful saga unfolds on the shores of Lake Superior.

Opening the East River

Author : Thomas Barthel
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476643261
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Opening the East River written by Thomas Barthel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil War, the New York City's East River was a massive unsolved and dangerous navigation problem. A major waterway into and out of the Harbor--where customs revenue equaled 42 percent of the U.S. Government's income--the river's many hindrances, centered around Hell Gate, included whirlpools, rocks and reefs. These, combined with swirling currents and powerful tides, led to deaths, cargo losses and destruction of vessels. Charged with clearing the river, General John Newton of the Army Corps of Engineers went to work with the most rudimentary tools for diving, mining, lighting, pumping and drilling. His crews worked for 20 years, using a steam-drilling scow of his own design and a new and perilous explosive--nitroglycerine. In 1885, Newton destroyed the nine-acre Flood Rock with 282,730 pounds of high explosives. The demolition was watched by tens of thousands. This book chronicles the clearing of the East River and the ingenuity of the Army engineer whose work was praised by the National Academy of Sciences.

Closing the Golden Door

Author : Anna Pegler-Gordon
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469665735
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Closing the Golden Door written by Anna Pegler-Gordon and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The immigration station at New York's Ellis Island opened in 1892 and remained the largest U.S. port for immigrant entry until World War I. In popular memory, Ellis Island is typically seen as a gateway for Europeans seeking to join the "great American melting pot." But as this fresh examination of Ellis Island's history reveals, it was also a major site of immigrant detention and exclusion, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian travelers and maritime laborers who reached New York City from Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, and even within the United States. And from 1924 to 1954, the station functioned as a detention camp and deportation center for a range of people deemed undesirable. Anna Pegler-Gordon draws on immigrants' oral histories and memoirs, government archives, newspapers, and other sources to reorient the history of migration and exclusion in the United States. In chronicling the circumstances of those who passed through or were detained at Ellis Island, she shows that Asian exclusion was both larger in scope and more limited in force than has been previously recognized.

Saved at the Seawall

Author : Jessica DuLong
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501759132
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Saved at the Seawall written by Jessica DuLong and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saved at the Seawall is the definitive history of the largest ever waterborne evacuation. Jessica DuLong reveals the dramatic story of how the New York Harbor maritime community heroically delivered stranded commuters, residents, and visitors out of harm's way. Even before the US Coast Guard called for "all available boats," tugs, ferries, dinner boats, and other vessels had sped to the rescue from points all across New York Harbor. In less than nine hours, captains and crews transported nearly half a million people from Manhattan. Anchored in eyewitness accounts and written by a mariner who served at Ground Zero, Saved at the Seawall weaves together the personal stories of people rescued that day with those of the mariners who saved them. DuLong describes the inner workings of New York Harbor and reveals the collaborative power of its close-knit community. Her chronicle of those crucial hours, when hundreds of thousands of lives were at risk, highlights how resourcefulness and basic human goodness triumphed over turmoil on one of America's darkest days.

Coastal Metropolis

Author : Carl A. Zimring
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987988
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Coastal Metropolis written by Carl A. Zimring and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from complex water and waste management issues, to housing and feeding millions of residents in a concentrated area, to dealing with climate change in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and everything in between. Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field, Coastal Metropolis offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.

Weapons of Mississippi

Author : Kevin Dougherty
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604734523
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Weapons of Mississippi written by Kevin Dougherty and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippians have long found the need for an arsenal of interesting, lethal, and imaginative weapons. Native Americans, frontier outlaws, antebellum duelists, authorities and protestors in the civil rights struggle, and present-day hunters have used weapons to survive, to advance causes, or to levy societal control. In Weapons of Mississippi, Kevin Dougherty examines the roles weapons have played in twelve phases of state history. Dougherty not only offers technical background for these devices, but he also presents a new way of understanding the state's history-through the context and development of its weapons. Chapters in the book bring the story of Mississippi's weapons up to date with a discussion of the modern naval shipbuilders on the Coast and interviews with hunters keen to pass on family traditions. As Mississippi progressed from a sparsely populated wilderness to a structured modern society, management of weaponry became one of the main requirements for establishing centralized law and order. Indians, outlaws, runaway slaves, secessionists, and night riders have all posed challenges to the often better-armed authorities. Today, weapons unite Mississippians in the popular pastime of hunting deer, turkey, dove, rabbit, and even bear. In the state's social and cultural character, a shared lore and knowledge of hunting crosses age, racial, and economic lines. Weapons, once used for mere survival, have transformed into instruments masterfully crafted for those harvesting the state's abundant game.

Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel

Author : Margaret Oppenheimer
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613733836
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel written by Margaret Oppenheimer and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notorious life and times of one of the wealthiest women in 19th-century America Born into grinding poverty, Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Yet by the end of her life, "Madame Jumel" was one of the richest women in New York, with servants of her own and mansions in Manhattan and Saratoga Springs. During her remarkable life, she acquired a fortune from her first husband, a French merchant, and almost lost it to her second, the notorious vice president Aaron Burr. Divorcing Burr amid lurid charges of adultery, Jumel lived on triumphantly to the age of 90, astutely managing her property and public persona. After her death, while family members extolled her virtues, claimants to her estate painted a different picture: of a prostitute, the mother of George Washington's illegitimate son, and a wife who ruthlessly defrauded her husband and perhaps even plotted his death. With this book, author Margaret A. Oppenheimer draws from archival documents and court filings, many untouched since the 1800s, to tell the true and full story of Eliza Jumel.

Steam Titans

Author : William M. Fowler Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620409097
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Steam Titans written by William M. Fowler Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Brewington Book Prize for Maritime History The story of the epic contest between shipping magnates Samuel Cunard and Edward Collins for mid-19th century control of the Atlantic. Between 1815 and the American Civil War, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution delivered a sea change in oceanic transportation. Steam travel transformed the Atlantic into a pulsating highway, dominated by ports in Liverpool and New York, as steamships ferried people, supplies, money, and information with astounding speed and regularity. American raw materials flowed eastward, while goods, capital, people, and technology crossed westward. The Anglo-American “partnership” fueled development worldwide; it also gave rise to a particularly intense competition. Steam Titans tells the story of a transatlantic fight to wrest control of the globe's most lucrative trade route. Two men--Samuel Cunard and Edward Knight Collins--and two nations wielded the tools of technology, finance, and politics to compete for control of a commercial lifeline that spanned the North Atlantic. The world watched carefully to see which would win. Each competitor sent to sea the fastest, biggest, and most elegant ships in the world, hoping to earn the distinction of being known as “the only way to cross.” Historian William M. Fowler brings to life the spectacle of this generation-long struggle for supremacy, during which New York rose to take her place among the greatest ports and cities of the world, and recounts the tale of a competition that was the opening act in the drama of economic globalization, still unfolding today.

Going Coastal

Author : Phil Fitzpatrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781682010761
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Going Coastal written by Phil Fitzpatrick and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Atlantic Metropolis

Author : Aaron Gurwitz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030133524
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Metropolis written by Aaron Gurwitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies the contents of a working economist’s tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley. Collectively those millions of decisions have made New York one of the twenty-first century’s few truly global cities. A recurrent analytic theme of this work is that the ups and downs of New York’s trajectory are best understood in the context of what was happening elsewhere in the broader Atlantic world. Readers will find that the Atlantic perspective viewed through an economic lens goes a long way toward clarifying otherwise quite perplexing historical events and trends.