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New York's Finest

Author : Michael Daly
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1538764350
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book New York's Finest written by Michael Daly and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that transformed Fear City into the safest big city in America. NEW YORK'S FINEST is the story of a city's transformation through the tireless efforts of Detective Steven McDonald, Nurse Justiniano, Jack Maple, and a host of hero cops—including the great niece of Jazz Age great Josephine Baker—the finest of The Finest. The son and grandson of cops, Officer McDonald was shot and paralyzed from the neck down while on patrol in 1986. The doctors said that if he did survive, he would be better off dead. It was then he came under the care of one Nurse Nina Justiniano. Where the teenage gunman was produced by the worst of Harlem's social ills, she personified its many graces, rescuing Steven from despair and urging him to transcend hate and bitterness. McDonald was then promoted to detective at the urging of NYPD Deputy Commissioner Jack Maple, a postal worker's son who sported a bow tie, Homburg hat, and two-tone shoes as he implemented transformative crime-fighting strategies to deter violent subway robberies. Coming up in the force, Maple had been routinely mocked for imagining the impossible: that Times Square would one day be a destination for families and tourists. Now, resentments and tensions are mounting in the same neighborhoods that most benefited from the careful consideration of officers like McDonald and Maple. But as NEW YORK'S FINEST illustrates, their legacies, and those of people like Nurse Justiniano, may well rescue New York City from its present state of unrest and struggle in the wake of protests and the pandemic.

Frisk Me

Author : Lauren Layne
Publisher : Forever
ISBN 13 : 1455561177
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Frisk Me written by Lauren Layne and published by Forever. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Officer Luc Moretti had no idea that his dive into the East River would have him drowning in a media frenzy. No matter how many times he tells reporters he was just doing his job, they're determined to make him into NYC's newest hero. Coming from a long line of NYPD's finest, Luc knows that being a cop has nothing to do with headlines and viral videos, and he's more than ready to get back to life away from the cameras-until he meets the gorgeous but jaded journalist assigned to film a TV special on him . . . Ava Sims may be the only woman in NYC who isn't in love with Officer Moretti. That's why she's going after the real story-to find out about the man behind the badge. Ava's determined to keep things strictly professional, but the more time she spends around Luc, even she has to admit there's something about a man in uniform . . . and she can't wait to get him out of his.

Becoming New York's Finest

Author : A. Darien
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137321946
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Becoming New York's Finest written by A. Darien and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After excluding women and African Americans from its ranks for most of its history, the New York City Police Department undertook an aggressive campaign of integration following World War II. This is the first comprehensive account of how and why the NYPD came to see integration as a highly coveted political tool, indispensable to policing.

Steal Me

Author : Lauren Layne
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1455561193
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Steal Me written by Lauren Layne and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN HOT PURSUIT Being a cop might be in Anthony Moretti's blood, but protecting and serving the city of New York has always been more than just the family business. If that means his love life stays locked up, well then that's just another sacrifice made in the line of duty. That is, until he sets eyes on the gorgeous new waitress at The Darby Diner and suddenly Anthony's morning coffee is leaving him a whole lot more hot and bothered than usual. Though waitressing at The Darby isn't exactly Maggie Walker's dream job, it pays the bills and gives her time to work on her novel. Now if only she could stop fantasizing about gorgeous Anthony Moretti every time he sits down at her table, she'd really be in great shape. But when he needs her help identifying a criminal threatening The Darby-and Maggie recognizes her ex-husband-she fears her fresh start might be a pipe dream. Faster than a New York minute, Maggie and Anthony find themselves in one perilous pursuit that only gets hotter with each and every rule-breaking kiss.

Cuff Me

Author : Lauren Layne
Publisher : Forever
ISBN 13 : 1455561223
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Cuff Me written by Lauren Layne and published by Forever. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet New York's Finest-three hot brothers sworn to protect and serve the city they love . . . and the women who've stolen their hearts. Vincent Moretti is one of the NYPD's top homicide detectives-and one of the most eligible bachelors in town. His family, however, thinks he should date his longtime partner, Jill-a sassy, sexy, smart-mouthed blonde who drives him absolutely crazy. Behind the quiet authority, tough-guy demeanor, and dark aviator glasses lies a man with a big soul-and a hard body that can soften any girl's heart. After years as his coworker, Jill Henley has given up hope that anything could happen between her and Vin. Besides, loving him would break all the rules. But seeing Jill with someone else triggers feelings in Vincent he never knew he had. Now he'll have to stop playing good cop/bad cop-and find a way to convince her to be his partner for life. . .

Internationally Known

Author : Kiki Swinson
Publisher : KS Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780984529018
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Internationally Known written by Kiki Swinson and published by KS Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In part 2 of the New York's Finest series, Naomi and Damian are in hiding trying to figure out their next move. They know they need to be extra careful not to tip off the Federal government and the notorious mafia drug lords they once worked for, but things never work out the way you plan them. Unfortunately, they are summoned to return to New York. But after they get there they realize that the streets are not the same so they have to play by a whole new set of rules. With little to work with, Naomi, Damian and her father Foxx are forced to strategically map out a plat that would not only guarantee them freedom, but get Reggie back.. The only problem with the plan is, no one can be trusted.

New York's Finest

Author : Kiki Swinson
Publisher : KS Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780984529063
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book New York's Finest written by Kiki Swinson and published by KS Publications. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naomi Foxx of New York has worked as a flight attendant for five years. In that time she helped her brother Reggie orchestrate his illegal drug smuggling operation. Naomi had a few TSA agents, bag handlers and a couple of mules on her payroll. Her financial empire tripled in no time. But then one by one, everyone in Reggie's organization will end up behind bars or disappear. Should Naomi flee the country before her life ends up in the wrong hands?

I'm Forever New York's Finest

Author : Kiki Swinson
Publisher : New York's Finest
ISBN 13 : 9780985349530
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book I'm Forever New York's Finest written by Kiki Swinson and published by New York's Finest. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naomi and Damian escaped New York once more but they aren't out of the woods yet. Marco wants them dead now.

New York Splendor

Author : Wendy Moonan
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847846350
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book New York Splendor written by Wendy Moonan and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design authority Wendy Moonan takes the reader on a tour of some of New York City's finest residential rooms--past and present. The selection of interiors is about the "wow" factor--New York residential spaces that elicit gasps of pleasure and surprise when first seen. Some are very grand, others sparingly modern or eclectic. All are exceptional and, Moonan promises, unforgettable. Groundbreaking rooms include Brooke Astor's elegant library by Albert Hadley; Gloria Vanderbilt's sublime patchwork bedroom; Donald Judd's dramatically spare art-filled loft; Adolfo's opulent and magnificently red entrance hall; a Peter Marino-designed penthouse with sweeping midtown views; and Jamie Drake's stunning dining room for the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion. Other illustrious interior designers and architects represented in the book include Mario Buatta, Robert Couturier, Albert Hadley, Denning & Fourcade, Mark Hampton, Philip Johnson, Charlotte Moss, Thomas O'Brien, Paul Rudolph, Bunny Williams, and Steven Gambrel. New York is the epicenter of interior-design innovations. Residents embrace myriad styles--from pure period historicism to bracing modernity. Moonan investigates the city's best residential spaces and presents them here, a book for the libraries of design lovers and professionals in the field.

New York's Bravest

Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307793362
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book New York's Bravest written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1840s, there was a real vounteer firefighter named Mose Humphreys whose bravery was reknown throughout New York City. Plays about him began being performed on Broadway in 1848 and over the years his strength and heroics took on larger-than-life proportions, much like those of Paul Bunyan. Mary Pope Osborne has honed down the legends about him to a brief, dramatic, sometimes comical, but ultimately moving text of picture book length. Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher’s stunning paintings capture this 8-foot-tall superhero rushing into burning buildings, saving babies and bankers, and wolfing down the feasts bestowed upon him by the grateful citizens of old New York–until the one big hotel fire after which he was never seen again. The author has included a historical note about the origins of this tall tale, and the book is dedicated to the 343 New York City firefighters who gave their lives to save others on September 11, 2001. Mary Pope Osborne included a longer, different version of this legend in her distinguished collection American Tall Tales.

The Spiritual Traveler

Author : Edward F. Bergman
Publisher : Hidden Spring
ISBN 13 : 9781587680038
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Spiritual Traveler written by Edward F. Bergman and published by Hidden Spring. This book was released on 2001 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to sacred sites and sacred spaces in New York City, written from a multi-faith and multicultural point of view. Includes many major historical, cultural and architectural sites, as well as lesser known sites of interest.

Rogues' Gallery

Author : John Oller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524745650
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Rogues' Gallery written by John Oller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment in the bustling streets of Old New York. Rogues' Gallery is a sweeping, epic tale of two revolutions, one feeding off the other, that played out on the streets of New York City during an era known as the Gilded Age. For centuries, New York had been a haven of crime. A thief or murderer not caught in the act nearly always got away. But in the early 1870s, an Irish cop by the name of Thomas Byrnes developed new ways to catch criminals. Mug shots and daily lineups helped witnesses point out culprits; the famed rogues' gallery allowed police to track repeat offenders; and the third-degree interrogation method induced recalcitrant crooks to confess. Byrnes worked cases methodically, interviewing witnesses, analyzing crime scenes, and developing theories that helped close the books on previously unsolvable crimes. Yet as policing became ever more specialized and efficient, crime itself began to change. Robberies became bolder and more elaborate, murders grew more ruthless and macabre, and the street gangs of old transformed into hierarchal criminal enterprises, giving birth to organized crime, including the Mafia. As the decades unfolded, corrupt cops and clever criminals at times blurred together, giving way to waves of police reform at the hands of men like Theodore Roosevelt. This is a tale of unforgettable characters: Marm Mandelbaum, a matronly German-immigrant woman who paid off cops and politicians to protect her empire of fencing stolen goods; "Clubber" Williams, a sadistic policeman who wielded a twenty-six-inch club against suspects, whether they were guilty or not; Danny Driscoll, the murderous leader of the Irish Whyos Gang and perhaps the first crime boss of New York; Big Tim Sullivan, the corrupt Tammany Hall politician who shielded the Whyos from the law; the suave Italian Paul Kelly and the thuggish Jewish gang leader Monk Eastman, whose rival crews engaged in brawls and gunfights all over the Lower East Side; and Joe Petrosino, a Sicilian-born detective who brilliantly pursued early Mafioso and Black Hand extortionists until a fateful trip back to his native Italy. Set against the backdrop of New York's Gilded Age, with its extremes of plutocratic wealth, tenement poverty, and rising social unrest, Rogues' Gallery is a fascinating story of the origins of modern policing and organized crime in an eventful era with echoes for our own time.

The Finest Building in America

Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190681217
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Finest Building in America written by Edwin G. Burrows and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first opened to the public in 1853, New York's Crystal Palace created a sensation. Those who had seen London's Crystal Palace, the structure it was openly intended to emulate, argued that America's copy far surpassed it. Built in what is today Bryant Park, a four-acre site between 40th and 42nd Streets, the colossus of glass and steel indeed seemed poised to displace the British original in worldwide fame. Walt Whitman pronounced it "unsurpassed anywhere for beauty." Young Samuel Clemens--not yet Mark Twain--called it a "perfect fairy palace." Many perceived it as putting America, still in the thrall of European culture, on the map. "To us on this side of the water," wrote newspaperman Horace Greely, who had also visited London's Crystal Palace, "it was original." Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edwin G. Burrows offers the tale of what was proclaimed the country's "finest building." Centerpiece of the 1853 World's Fair, the New York Crystal Palace, like its London counterpart, was intended to display the country's latest technological achievements--as well as a few dubious cultural artifacts. But its primary function was simply to be seen and admired by the crowds that thronged to it; its very existence caused patriotic breasts to swell. And then suddenly it was gone. On October 5, 1858, merely five years after its construction, the Crystal Palace caught fire. Despite frantic attempts to save it, the magnificent dome was engulfed and within thirty minutes the entire structure reduced to a heap of smoldering debris, through which for days afterward bereft New Yorkers picked for mementos. With sumptuous images and lively storytelling The Finest Building in America brings back to life an extraordinary monument, one that briefly but wholeheartedly captured the imagination of a country, giving form to its dreams and ambitions, and then vanishing from view.

Truffle Boy

Author : Ian Purkayastha
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 031638397X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Truffle Boy written by Ian Purkayastha and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Ian Purkayastha] has a true, deep expertise in everything he sells--caviar, truffles, fish. He knows the stories that we need to sell the stuff tableside . . . he can disrupt the entire luxury foods market." ---From the Foreword by David Chang Ian Purkayastha is New York City's leading truffle importer and boasts a devoted clientele of top chefs nationwide, including Jean-Georges Vongerichten, David Chang, Sean Brock, and David Bouley. But before he was purveying the world's most expensive fungus to the country's most esteemed chefs, Ian was just a food-obsessed teenager in rural Arkansas -- a misfit with a peculiar fascination for rare and exotic ingredients. The son of an Indian immigrant father and a Texan mother, Ian learned to forage for wild mushrooms from an uncle in the Ozark hills. Thus began a single-track fixation that led him to learn about the prized but elusive truffle, the king of all fungi. His first taste of truffle at age 15 sparked his improbable yet remarkable adventure through the strange -- and often corrupt -- business of the exotic food trade. Rife with tales from the hidden underbelly of the elite restaurant scene, Truffle Boy chronicles Ian's high stakes dealings with a truffle kingpin in Serbia, meth-head foragers in Oregon, crooked businessmen and maniacal chefs in Manhattan, gypsy truffle hunters in the forests of Hungary, and a supreme adventure to find "Gucci mushrooms" in the Himalayan foothills -- the land of the gods. He endures harsh failures along the way but rebuilds with tremendous success by selling not just truffles but also caviar, wild mushrooms, rare foraged edibles, Wagyu beef, and other nearly unobtainable ingredients demanded by his Michelin-starred clients. Truffle Boy is a thrilling coming-of-age story and the incredible but true tale of a country kid who grows up to become a force in the world of fine dining.

New York's Fabulous Luxury Apartments

Author : Andrew Alpern
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book New York's Fabulous Luxury Apartments written by Andrew Alpern and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificently illustrated directory of 73 of Manhattan's most splendid addresses includes mini-histories of each building, noting the architect, builder, date of construction, and more. 221 photographs and drawings.

Here is New York

Author : E. B. White
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174798
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Here is New York written by E. B. White and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author’s stroll around Manhattan—with the reader arm-in-arm—remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. Here is New York has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. The New Yorker calls it “the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.”

Dry Manhattan

Author : Michael A. Lerner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040090
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Dry Manhattan written by Michael A. Lerner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than the freedom to drink.