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Download or read book Peter Stuyvesant written by L. J. Krizner and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the origins of New York, once the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, with a focus on the leadership of Peter Stuyvesant.
Book Synopsis Bedford-Stuyvesant by : Wilhelmena Rhodes Kelly
Download or read book Bedford-Stuyvesant written by Wilhelmena Rhodes Kelly and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant is still found in the near-forgotten settlement of Brooklyn's Bedford Corners, a Dutch township colonized in 1667, where ancient Native American trails determined its now major thoroughfares, and where Colonial patriots fought the British in the country's struggle for independence. Bedford-Stuyvesant remained a quiet farming hamlet until the 1880s when rapid subway transportation, construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the burgeoning population of Manhattan combined to forge one of America's first and finest suburban communities. Bedford-Stuyvesant details the evolution of this neighborhood, home to the nation's second largest African American community, and it documents how this urban center is now finally enjoying new regard for its wealth of architecture and its notable place in American history.
Book Synopsis On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed Into Town by : Arnold Lobel
Download or read book On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed Into Town written by Arnold Lobel and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1971-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Finding the appearance of New Amsterdam a total disgrace, Peter Stuyvesant begins issuing no-nonsense proclamations to rectify the situation.
Book Synopsis Saving Stuyvesant Town by : Daniel R. Garodnick
Download or read book Saving Stuyvesant Town written by Daniel R. Garodnick and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From city streets to City Hall and to Midtown corporate offices, Saving Stuyvesant Town is the incredible true story of how one middle class community defeated the largest residential real estate deal in American history. Lifetime Stuy Town resident and former City Councilman Dan Garodnick recounts how his neighbors stood up to mammoth real estate interests and successfully fought to save their homes, delivering New York City's biggest-ever affordable housing preservation win. In 2006, Garodnick found himself engaged in an unexpected battle. Stuyvesant Town was built for World War II veterans by MetLife, in partnership with the City. Two generations removed, MetLife announced that it would sell Stuy Town to the highest bidder. Garodnick and his neighbors sprang into action. Battle lines formed with real estate titans like Tishman Speyer and BlackRock facing an organized coalition of residents, who made a competing bid to buy the property themselves. Tripped-up by an over-leveraged deal, the collapse of the American housing market, and a novel lawsuit brought by tenants, the real estate interests collapsed, and the tenants stood ready to take charge and shape the future of their community. The result was a once-in-a-generation win for tenants and an extraordinary outcome for middle-class New Yorkers. Garodnick's colorful and heartfelt account of this crucial moment in New York City history shows how creative problem solving, determination, and brute force politics can be marshalled for the public good. The nine-year struggle to save Stuyvesant Town by these residents is an inspiration to everyone who is committed to ensuring that New York remains a livable, affordable, and economically diverse city.
Download or read book Stuyvesant written by Jacob Abbott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Stuyvesant by Jacob Abbott
Download or read book Stuyvesant Bound written by Donna Merwick and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuyvesant Bound is an innovative and compelling evaluation of the last director general of New Netherland. Donna Merwick examines the layers of culture in which Peter Stuyvesant forged his career and performed his responsibilities, ultimately reappraising the view of Stuyvesant long held by the majority of U.S. historians and commentators. Borrowing its form from the genre of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century learned essays, Stuyvesant Bound invites the reader to step into a premodern worldview as Merwick considers Stuyvesant's role in history from the perspectives of duty, belief, and loss. Stuyvesant is presented as a mid-seventeenth-century magistrate obliged by his official oath to manage New Netherland, including installing Calvinist politics and belief practices under the fragile conditions of early modern spirituality after the Protestant Reformation. Merwick meticulously reconstructs the process by which Stuyvesant became his own archivist and historian when, recalled to The Hague to answer for his surrender of New Netherland in 1664, he gathered together papers amounting to almost 50,000 words and offered them to the States General. Though Merwick weaves the theme of loss throughout this meditation on Stuyvesant's career, the association culminates in New Netherland's fall to the English in 1664 and Stuyvesant's immediate recall to Holland to defend his surrender. Rigorously researched and unabashedly interpretive, Stuyvesant Bound makes a major contribution to recovery of the cultural and religious diversity that marked colonial America.
Book Synopsis Peter Stuyvesant by : Matthew W. Cody
Download or read book Peter Stuyvesant written by Matthew W. Cody and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the leader who brought major reforms to the colony of New Netherland before its surrender to the British in 1664.
Download or read book Peter Stuyvesant written by Jim Whiting and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years after the Pilgrims founded the Massachusetts Colony in 1620, the Dutch founded their own North American colony on the island that would eventually become New York City. When leading members of the Dutch colony, called New Amsterdam, needed a new governor, the company began looking for a replacement. They wanted someone who was honest, brave, loyal to the company, and experienced in colonial affairs. Peter Stuyvesant had all these qualities and more Stuyvesant remained New Amsterdam's governor from 1647 until 1664, when the city was captured by an English army under the command of the Duke of York. Along the way, Stuyvesant's often narrow-minded beliefs made him a few enemies.
Download or read book A Class Apart written by Alec Klein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Klein presents a riveting account of the students and teachers at perhaps the best public high school in the country, New York City's Stuyvesant High School, and the enormous academic pressures placed on them.
Book Synopsis Eleven Stories High by : Corinne Demas
Download or read book Eleven Stories High written by Corinne Demas and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-07-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir evokes a girl's coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, "utopian" community.
Book Synopsis Peter Stuyvesant of Old New York by : Anna Erskine Crouse
Download or read book Peter Stuyvesant of Old New York written by Anna Erskine Crouse and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1954 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Dutchman who arrived to be governor of New Amsterdam in 1647.
Book Synopsis Lawrence & Co's Columbia County Directory for 1880-81 by : A.R. Lawrence & Co
Download or read book Lawrence & Co's Columbia County Directory for 1880-81 written by A.R. Lawrence & Co and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Touchstone written by Laurie R. King and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed for her rich and powerful works of psychological suspense as well as her New York Times bestselling mysteries, Laurie R. King now takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall where a gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions begins with a visit to a recluse upon whom the fate of an entire nation may rest—a man code-named . . . It’s eight years after the Great War shattered Bennett Grey’s life, leaving him with an excruciating sensitivity to the potential of human violence, and making social contact all but impossible. Once studied by British intelligence for his unique abilities, Grey has withdrawn from a rapidly changing world—until an American Bureau of Investigation agent comes to investigate for himself Grey’s potential as a weapon in a vicious new kind of warfare. Agent Harris Stuyvesant desperately needs Grey’s help entering a world where the rich and the radical exist side by side—a heady mix of the powerful and the celebrated, among whom lurks an enemy ready to strike a deadly blow at democracy on both sides of the Atlantic. Here, among a titled family whose servants dress in whimsical costumes and whose daughter conducts an open affair with a man who wants to bring down the government, Stuyvesant finds himself dangerously seduced by one woman and—even more dangerously—falling in love with another. And as he sifts through secrets divulged and kept, he uncovers the target of a horrifying conspiracy, and wonders if he can trust his touchstone, Grey, to reveal the most dangerous player of all …. Building to an astounding climax on an ancient English estate, Touchstone is both a harrowing thriller by a master of the genre and a thought-provoking exploration of the forces that drive history—and human destinies.
Download or read book Peter Stuyvesant written by Jim Whiting and published by . This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years after the Pilgrims founded the Massachusetts Colony in 1620, the Dutch founded their own North American colony on the island that would eventually become New York City. When leading members of the Dutch colony, called New Amsterdam, needed a new governor, the company began looking for a replacement. They wanted someone who was honest, brave, loyal to the company, and experienced in colonial affairs. Peter Stuyvesant had all these qualities and more.Stuyvesant remained New Amsterdams governor from 1647 until 1664, when the city was captured by an English army under the command of the Duke of York. Along the way, Stuyvesants often narrow-minded beliefs made him a few enemies. Find out how Pegleg Pete, who had lost a leg in battle for the Dutch, helped the young colony survive its growing pains and laid the foundation for its future greatness.
Book Synopsis The Bones of Paris by : Laurie R. King
Download or read book The Bones of Paris written by Laurie R. King and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2013 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, France: September 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator's dream, but when the evidence leads Stuyvesant to the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre, his investigation takes a sharp, disturbing turn.
Book Synopsis Old Silver Leg Takes Over! by : Robert Quackenbush
Download or read book Old Silver Leg Takes Over! written by Robert Quackenbush and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1986 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography of the Dutchman who arrived to be governor of New Amsterdam in 1647 and turned it from a muddy village into a well-organized city.
Book Synopsis Transcript of Enrollment Books by : New York (N.Y.). Board of Elections
Download or read book Transcript of Enrollment Books written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Elections and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
