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The Bowery Boys

Author : Greg Young
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1612435769
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Bowery Boys written by Greg Young and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover fascinating, little-known histories of the five boroughs in The Bowery Boys’ official companion to their popular, award-winning podcast. It was 2007. Sitting at a kitchen table and speaking into an old karaoke microphone, Greg Young and Tom Meyers recorded their first podcast. They weren’t history professors or voice actors. They were just two guys living in the Bowery and possessing an unquenchable thirst for the fascinating stories from New York City’s past. Nearly 200 episodes later, The Bowery Boys podcast is a phenomenon, thrilling audiences each month with one amazing story after the next. Now, in their first-ever book, the duo gives you an exclusive personal tour through New York’s old cobblestone streets and gas-lit back alleyways. In their uniquely approachable style, the authors bring to life everything from makeshift forts of the early Dutch years to the opulent mansions of The Gilded Age. They weave tales that will reshape your view of famous sites like Times Square, Grand Central Terminal, and the High Line. Then they go even further to reveal notorious dens of vice, scandalous Jazz Age crime scenes, and park statues with strange pasts. Praise for The Bowery Boys “Among the best city-centric series.” —New York Times “Meyers and Young have become unofficial ambassadors of New York history.” —NPR “Breezy and informative, crowded with the finest grifters, knickerbockers, spiritualists, and city builders to stalk these streets since back when New Amsterdam was just some farms.” —Village Voice “Young and Meyers have an all-consuming curiosity to work out what happened in their city in years past, including the Newsboys Strike of 1899, the history of the Staten Island Ferry, and the real-life sites on which Martin Scorsese’s Vinyl is based.” —The Guardian

Old Men of the Bowery

Author : Carl I. Cohen
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898627183
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Old Men of the Bowery written by Carl I. Cohen and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1988-11-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloth edition, $35.

The Edison Monthly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Edison Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dave Ranney. Or, Thirty Years on the Bowery; An Autobiography

Author : Dave Ranney
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Dave Ranney. Or, Thirty Years on the Bowery; An Autobiography written by Dave Ranney and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Dave Ranney. Or, Thirty Years on the Bowery; An Autobiography', the reader is taken on a gripping journey through the eyes of the author, as he recounts his experiences living on the Bowery for over three decades. Ranney's raw and candid writing style provides an unfiltered look at life in one of the most notorious neighborhoods in New York City during the 19th century. The book is a mix of autobiography and social commentary, shedding light on the struggles and triumphs of the working class in urban America. Ranney's vivid descriptions and attention to detail make this a truly immersive read, offering a glimpse into a bygone era. Dave Ranney, a journalist and social reformer, drew on his own experiences and observations to pen this compelling autobiography. His deep empathy for the marginalized communities he encountered on the Bowery fueled his desire to expose the harsh realities of poverty and injustice. Ranney's commitment to social reform and his dedication to giving a voice to the voiceless shine through in his writing, making this book both a personal narrative and a call to action. I highly recommend 'Dave Ranney. Or, Thirty Years on the Bowery; An Autobiography' to readers interested in urban history, social justice, and memoirs. Ranney's poignant storytelling and unique perspective offer a valuable insight into a significant period in American history, making this a must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the social issues of the time.

Older Men's Lives

Author : Edward H. Thompson (Jr.)
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0803950810
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Older Men's Lives written by Edward H. Thompson (Jr.) and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1994-06-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive exploration on the subject of older men, Older Men's Lives offers a multidisciplinary portrait of men and their concerns in later life. Using both a life-course and gendered perspective, the contributors to this collection of original articles point out that the image and self-image of men are continuously reconstructed over the life cycle. They examine older men's position in society and the changes wrought in their status and roles over time. Their relationship with their spouses, children, grandchildren, and friends are also explored, as are policy implications of a gendered, life-cycle view of masculinity. This volume also discusses faith development in older men, masculinity identity from work to retirement, older men's sexuality, and older men's friendship patterns. Older Men's Lives will be of interest to professionals and students interested in gender, men's studies, gerontology, and sociology. "This book begins to remedy the lack of information and provides data and research on aging men. . . .The strength of this book is the specificity of its focus. By focusing solely on male concerns the book is able to identify issues in the male aging process and discuss them on their own terms rather than simply as a contrast to females." --Clinical Gerontologist

The Bowery

Author : Stephen Paul DeVillo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 151072687X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Bowery written by Stephen Paul DeVillo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From peglegged Peter Stuyvesant to CBGB’s, the story of the Bowery reflects the history of the city that grew up around it. It was the street your mother warned you about—even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well. The Bowery is New York’s oldest street and Manhattan’s broadest boulevard. Like the city itself, it has continually reinvented itself over the centuries. Named for the Dutch farms, or bouweries, of the area, the path’s lurid character was established early when it became the site of New Amsterdam’s first murder. A natural spring near the Five Points neighborhood led to breweries and taverns that became home to the gangs of New York—the “Bowery B’hoys,” “Plug Uglies,” and “Dead Rabbits.” In the Gaslight Era, teenaged streetwalkers swallowed poison in McGurk’s Suicide Hall. A brighter side to the street was reflected in places of amusement and culture over the years. A young P.T. Barnum got his start there, and Harry Houdini learned showmanship playing the music halls and dime museums. Poets, singers, hobos, gangsters, soldiers, travelers, preachers, storytellers, con-men, and reformers all gathered there. Its colorful cast of characters includes Peter Stuyvesant, Steve Brodie, Carry Nation, Stephen Foster, Stephen Crane, and even Abraham Lincoln. The Bowery: The Strange History of New York’s Oldest Street traces the full story of this once notorious thoroughfare from its pre-colonial origins to the present day.

Flophouse

Author : David Isay
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Flophouse written by David Isay and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book takes you to places you think you don't want to enter, to people you think you don't want to meet, to lives you think you don't want to live--and makes you rethink all your assumptions. It reveals the tremendous strength and humanity of those who are usually ignored. And as you pay attention, your own humanity expands." ---Susan Stamberg, special correspondent, National Public Radio In its heyday, close to one hundred thousand men found shelter each night in flophouses along America's largest and most infamous skid row, the Bowery. Today, only a handful of flops are left, their tiny five- and ten-dollar-a-night rooms home to fewer than a thousand men, mostly long-time residents. In a handful of years, this world will be gone. In Flophouse, documentarians David Isay and Stacy Abramson and photographer Harvey Wang chronicle this vanishing world through the voices and portraits of a number of those residents, interspersed with photographs of their surroundings. The men come from all manner of backgrounds, and the rich variety of the tales they tell is a testament to the number of ways the bottom can fall out of life in America, even in prosperous times. This book warrants comparison with Walker Evans and James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, but the authors were inspired most directly by Joseph Mitchell, who wrote about some of these same flophouses with an honest warmth and an acceptance of life as it's found. Shimmering with humanity and utterly devoid of false sentiment, Flophouse is a powerful reminder that even on the margins, life defies all attempts at reduction.

The Literary Digest

Author : Edward Jewitt Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1980 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literary Digest written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Devil's Mile

Author : Alice Sparberg Alexiou
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531507271
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Devil's Mile written by Alice Sparberg Alexiou and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devil’s Mile tells the rip-roaring story of New York’s oldest and most unique street The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th century. The very name evoked visuals of drunken bums passed out on the sidewalk, and New Yorkers nicknamed it “Satan’s Highway,” “The Mile of Hell,” and “The Street of Forgotten Men.” For years the little businesses along the Bowery—stationers, dry goods sellers, jewelers, hatters—periodically asked the city to change the street’s name. To have a Bowery address, they claimed, was hurting them; people did not want to venture there. But when New York exploded into real estate frenzy in the 1990s, developers discovered the Bowery. They rushed in and began tearing down. Today, Whole Foods, hipster night spots, and expensive lofts have replaced the old flophouses and dive bars, and the bad old Bowery no longer exists. In Devil’s Mile, Alice Sparberg Alexiou tells the story of the Bowery, starting with its origins, when forests covered the surrounding area, and through the pre–Civil War years, when country estates of wealthy New Yorkers lined this thoroughfare. She then describes the Bowery’s deterioration in stunning detail, starting in the post-bellum years. She ends her historical exploration of this famed street in the present, bearing witness as the old Bowery buildings, and the memories associated with them, are disappearing.

Collier's

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collier's written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America's Film Legacy

Author : Daniel Eagan
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826429777
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book America's Film Legacy written by Daniel Eagan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of the five hundred films that have been selected, to date, for preservation by the National Film Preservation Board, and are thereby listed in the National Film Registry.

Beautiful Unbroken

Author : Mary Jane Nealon
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970338
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Unbroken written by Mary Jane Nealon and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching memoir by a working nurse As a child, Mary Jane Nealon dreams of growing up to become a saint or, failing that, a nurse. She idolizes Clara Barton, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Molly Pitcher, whose biographies she reads and rereads. But by the time she follows her calling to nursing school, her beloved younger brother is diagnosed with cancer, which challenges her to bring hope and healing closer to home. His death leaves her shattered, and she flees into her work, and into poetry. Beautiful Unbroken details Nealon's life of caregiving, from her years as a flying nurse, untethered and free to follow friends and jobs from the Southwest to Savannah, to more somber years in New York City, treating men in a homeless shelter on the Bowery and working in the city's first AIDS wards. In this compelling and revealing memoir, Nealon brings a poet's sensitivity to bear on the hard truths of disease and recovery, life and death.

On the Town in New York

Author : Michael Batterberry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113676805X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book On the Town in New York written by Michael Batterberry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-09-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful, vividly detailed book takes you out on the town in New York from the American Revolution to today's Food Revolution. Michael and Ariane Batterberry, founders of Food and Wine magazine, detail a magnificent journey through the streets of New York, exploring the customs in eating, drinking and entertainment of both high and low culture. They take you into the dives of the Tenderloin and to the elaborate banquets of the Gilded Age. Whether they are talking about a saloon or the famous Astor House, they provide the most fascinating details from New York's richly diverse culinary history. First published in 1973 when New York seemed to be a city in decline, the original edition of On the Town in New York saw very little hope in the city's culinary future. Who could have known that New York was on the brink of a Food Revolution and a total reinvention of the American dining experience? Conceived to redress that miscalculation and to celebrate the thriving growth of dining out in New York, this anniversary edition of On the Town in New York contains a new afterward that picks up where the Batterberrys left off. All of the wonderful details of the original edition remain. We still find the vivid picture of the reception for Lafayette in 1824, the interesting birth of the cafeteria, as well as the description of an 1897 costume ball that cost $350,000. Even the recipe for the Algonquin's Famous Apple Pie is here for the traditionalists. What's new is the interesting tale of how New York came to be the restaurant capital of the world at a time when no one thought it possible. The Batterberrys combine their keen sense of New York's social history with their insider's knowledge of how the food and beverage industry reconceptualized itself to take advantage of the changing social fabric following the turbulent 60s. Here we find details of how the changing role of women, the influx of new immigrant communities, and the focus on nouvelle cuisine combined in unique ways to create a thriving dining industry rich in talent and celebrity. Delicious and irrisistable, this social history of New York will please anyone whose tasted the specialties of Chinatown, had a steak at Keen's or basked in the luxuries of the Rainbow Room.

All the Year Round

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book All the Year Round written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Reformatory Press

Author : Iowa. Reformatory at Anamosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Reformatory Press written by Iowa. Reformatory at Anamosa and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Saturday Evening Post

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Saturday Evening Post written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

306090 01: Where We Are Now

Author : Jonathan D. Solomon
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568983479
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book 306090 01: Where We Are Now written by Jonathan D. Solomon and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 306090 is a new journal that introduces the work of promising students and young professionals whose cross-disciplinary projects, ideas, buildings, and other media offer innovative directions for the growth of architecture. Published biannually, 306090 presents ideologically and geographically diverse work from a wide range of practitioners at the early stages of their careers. Proposed as an alternative to current academic publications, 306090 is dedicated to exposing the work, theories, and aesthetic practices that will guide the discipline in this new century.