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Author : John B. Pine
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Story of Gramercy Park, 1831-1921 written by John B. Pine and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Garmey
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Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gramercy Park, an Illustrated History of a New York Neighborhood written by Stephen Garmey and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Henry Greene
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record written by Richard Henry Greene and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Botanical Garden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the New York Botanical Garden written by New York Botanical Garden and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Publications of the staff, scholars and students of the New York Botanical Garden during the year" in vol. 3- 1902- The list for 1901 includes March 1895-Dec.1901.
Author : Payal Arora
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317678915
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Leisure Commons written by Payal Arora and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical continuity to this cyberleisure geography. This book investigates the digital public sphere by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its rhetoric of being open, democratic, and free for all: the urban park. It makes the case that the history and politics of public parks as an urban commons provides fresh insight into contemporary debates on corporatization, democratization and privatization of the digital commons. This book takes the reader on a metaphorical journey through multiple forms of public parks such as Protest Parks, Walled Gardens, Corporate Parks, Fantasy Parks, and Global Parks, addressing issues such as virtual activism, online privacy/surveillance, digital labor, branding, and globalization of digital networks. Ranging from the 19th century British factory garden to Tokyo Disneyland, this book offers numerous spatial metaphors to bring to life aspects of new media spaces. Readers looking for an interdisciplinary, historical and spatial approach to staid Web 2.0 discourses will undoubtedly benefit from this text.
Author : Alfred Pommer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625853637
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Exploring Gramercy Park and Union Square written by Alfred Pommer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by Samuel Ruggles as a haven for wealthy New Yorkers, both Gramercy Park and Union Square have been among Manhattan's most desirable neighborhoods for more than 150 years. From writers and artists to powerful politicians, illustrious figures like O. Henry, Andy Warhol, Samuel Tilden and Joseph Kennedy have walked its streets. The National Arts Club and the Players Club attract patrons from around the city who are in search of a taste of grander times. Tourists flock to historic sites like the Theodore Roosevelt House, the Gramercy Park Historic District and the picturesque Union Square Park. Local tour guide Alfred Pommer and coauthor Joyce Pommer reveal the stories on the streets of the neighborhoods.
Author : Kenneth A. Scherzer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822398753
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Unbounded Community written by Kenneth A. Scherzer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stick ball, stoop sitting, pickle barrel colloquys: The neighborhood occupies a warm place in our cultural memory—a place that Kenneth A. Scherzer contends may have more to do with ideology and nostalgia than with historical accuracy. In this remarkably detailed analysis of neighborhood life in New York City between 1830 and 1875, Scherzer gives the neighborhood its due as a complex, richly textured social phenomenon and helps to clarify its role in the evolution of cities. After a critical examination of recent historical renderings of neighborhood life, Scherzer focuses on the ecological, symbolic, and social aspects of nineteenth-century community life in New York City. Employing a wide array of sources, from census reports and church records to police blotters and brothel guides, he documents the complex composition of neighborhoods that defy simple categorization by class or ethnicity. From his account, the New York City neighborhood emerges as a community in flux, born out of the chaos of May Day, the traditional moving day. The fluid geography and heterogeneity of these neighborhoods kept most city residents from developing strong local attachments. Scherzer shows how such weak spatial consciousness, along with the fast pace of residential change, diminished the community function of the neighborhood. New Yorkers, he suggests, relied instead upon the "unbounded community," a collection of friends and social relations that extended throughout the city. With pointed argument and weighty evidence, The Unbounded Community replaces the neighborhood of nostalgia with a broader, multifaceted conception of community life. Depicting the neighborhood in its full scope and diversity, the book will enhance future forays into urban history.
Author : Rachel Field
Publisher : DigiCat
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Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book All This and Heaven Too written by Rachel Field and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Field's novel is based on the true story of Field's great-aunt, Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, a French governess who fell in love with the Duc de Praslin, her employer. When Praslin's wife was murdered, Henriette was implicated. The real-life scandal contributed to the political turmoil before the French Revolution of 1848 which deposed France's Louis Philippe I. Excerpt: "Although I never knew you in life, as a child I often cracked butternuts on your tombstone. There were other more impressive monuments in our family lot, but yours for some unaccountable reason became my favorite in that group erected to the glory of God and the memory of departed relatives."
Author : Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022660490X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Design for the Crowd written by Joanna Merwood-Salisbury and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated on Broadway between Fourteenth and Seventeenth Streets, Union Square occupies a central place in both the geography and the history of New York City. Though this compact space was originally designed in 1830 to beautify a residential neighborhood and boost property values, by the early days of the Civil War, New Yorkers had transformed Union Square into a gathering place for political debate and protest. As public use of the square changed, so, too, did its design. When Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux redesigned the park in the late nineteenth century, they sought to enhance its potential as a space for the orderly expression of public sentiment. A few decades later, anarchists and Communist activists, including Emma Goldman, turned Union Square into a regular gathering place where they would advocate for radical change. In response, a series of city administrations and business groups sought to quash this unruly form of dissidence by remaking the square into a new kind of patriotic space. As Joanna Merwood-Salisbury shows us in Design for the Crowd, the history of Union Square illustrates ongoing debates over the proper organization of urban space—and competing images of the public that uses it. In this sweeping history of an iconic urban square, Merwood-Salisbury gives us a review of American political activism, philosophies of urban design, and the many ways in which a seemingly stable landmark can change through public engagement and design. Published with the support of Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.
Author : New York Botanical Garden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Journal written by New York Botanical Garden and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1933-41, 1945 includes the Annual report of the director, 1933-40, 1944.
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Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Municipal Reference Library Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel S. Levy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195382374
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Manhattan Phoenix written by Daniel S. Levy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled Manhattan also created the ashes from which the city was reborn.In 1835, a merchant named Gabriel Disosway marveled at a great fire enveloping New York, commenting on how it "spread more and more vividly from the fiery arena, rendering every object, far and wide, minutely discernible - the lower bay and its Islands, with the shores of Long Island and NewJersey." The fire Disosway witnessed devastated a large swath of lower Manhattan, clearing roughly the same number of acres as the World Trade Center bombing, Manhattan Phoenix explores the emergence of modern New York after it emerged from the devastating fire of 1835 - a catastrophe that revealedhow truly unprepared and haphazardly organized it was - to become a world-class city merely a quarter of a century later. The one led to other. New York effectively had to start over.Daniel Levy's book charts Manhattan's almost miraculous growth while interweaving the lives of various New Yorkers who took part in the city's transformation. Some are well known, such as the land baron John Jacob Astor and Mayor Fernando Wood. Others less so, as with the African-American oystermanThomas Downing and the Bowery Theatre impresario Thomas Hamblin. The book celebrates Fire Chief James Gulick who battled the blaze, and celebrates the work of the architect Alexander Jackson Davis who built marble palaces for the rich. It chronicles the career of the merchant Alexander Stewart whoconstructed the first department store, follows the struggles of the abolitionist Arthur Tappan, and records of the efforts of the engineer John Bloomfield Jervis who brought clean water into homes. And this resurgence owed so much to the visionaries, such as Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux,who designed Central Park, creating a refuge that it remains to this day.Manhattan Phoenix reveals a city first in flames and then in flux but resolute in its determination to emerge as one of the world's greatest metropolises.
Author : John R. Camera
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514452022
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)
Download or read book A Players Almanac written by John R. Camera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Players is a private social club founded in 1888 by Edwin Booth, the greatest and most celebrated American actor of his time. Membership today continues to be composed of actors and artists from the stage but now from the kindred professions of film and television, the fine and plastic arts, theatre history and education and those from other professions interested in the celebration and promotion of the arts. A Players Almanac comprises five Acts, the first with the history and growth of Gramercy Park in 1833 and the mansions built by the famous residents that surround it; the second focuses on the northward movement of commerce and theatre in the 1800s from lower Manhattan to Union Square and New Yorks famed Ladies Mile; the third on the early life of Booth as a touring star in 1849 with notes on Edwins first marriage, his most influential friends and the design of the first Booth Theatre; the fourth on the founding of The Players in 1888 and Stanford Whites design of The Players clubhouse; and the fifth act on the growing ill health and consequent death of Edwin Booth in 1893. Each Act has an extensive gallery that displays, in sequence, photos of Gramercy Park, early theatres in Union Square, the fashions and the buildings that housed the designs and styles created by the most prominent couturiers of the 19th century, of the Booth family, photolithographs of Edwin dressed in the costume of his most recognized characters and the early and later interiors of The Players. The Almanac concludes with an Addendum and a bibliography.
Author : New Haven Free Public Library
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Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book New Haven Free Public Library Bulletin written by New Haven Free Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Notes - Municipal Reference and Research Center written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert David Weber
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Social Function of New York Municipal Parks 1850-1900 written by Robert David Weber and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard C. Murphy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of the Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick in the City of New York, 1784 to 1955 written by Richard C. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
