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Author : Henry Collins Brown
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Fifth Avenue Old and New, 1824-1924, by Henry Collins Brown written by Henry Collins Brown and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Streets
Author : Henry Collins Brown
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ISBN 13 : 9781258764371
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Fifth Avenue, Old and New, 1824-1924 written by Henry Collins Brown and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Collins Brown
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Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book Fifth Avenue Old and New, 1824-1924 written by Henry Collins Brown and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fifth Avenue Association (NEW YORK)
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Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Fifth Avenue old and new, 1824-1924. By Henry Collins Brown ... Official publication of the Fifth Avenue Association in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of Fifth Avenue written by Fifth Avenue Association (NEW YORK) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Max Page
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226644684
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)
Download or read book The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 written by Max Page and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Page investigates these cultural counter weights through case studies of Manhattan's development, with depictions ranging from private real estate development along Fifth Avenue to Jacob Riis's slum clearance efforts on the Lower East Side, from the elimination of street trees to the efforts to save City Hall from demolition.
Author : Henry Collins Brown
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013690532
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Fifth Avenue, Old and New, 1824-1924 written by Henry Collins Brown and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Henry Collins Brown
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Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Fifth Avenue Old and New, 1824-1924 written by Henry Collins Brown and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Art M. Blake
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421439220
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book How New York Became American, 1890–1924 written by Art M. Blake and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake weaves a compelling story of a city's struggle for metropolitan and national status and its place in the national imagination.
Author : Marguerite Holloway
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393071251
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor written by Marguerite Holloway and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of an unrecognized, 19th-century genius, the man who plotted Manhattan's famous city grid.
Author : Curtis Gathje
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466867000
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book At The Plaza written by Curtis Gathje and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At The Plaza is a pictorial record and an anecdotal history of the world's most famous hotel: New York's Plaza. As a story, it traverses the breadth and scope of Gotham's high society during the American Century. As a photo collection, it's like no other, capturing the hotel's remarkable presence on the ever-changing New York scene. For almost one hundred years, The Plaza has mirrored the social history of Manhattan: its tastes in design, entertainment, restaurants and accommodations, as well as its adjustment to Prohibition, the Great Depression, two World Wars, the Cold War, women's rights, smokers' rights, animals' rights and British rock-and-roll. The first guests to sign the register-Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt-set the standard for the long procession of luminaries that followed: Mark Twain, Diamond Jim Brady, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Beatles, among many others. In At The Plaza, the hotel's official historian, Curtis Gathje, has compiled a tremendous collection of photographs and vignettes chronicling the colorful history of a building, an institution, and a city.
Author : Erica Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620400510
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Chief Engineer written by Erica Wagner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full biography of a crucial figure in the American story--Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge. "I know that nothing can be done perfectly at the first trial; I also know that each day brings its little quota of experiences, which with honest intentions, will lead to perfection after a while." --Washington Roebling His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but after John Roebling's sudden death, Washington Roebling built what has become one of American's most iconic structures--as much a part of New York as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Yet, as recognizable as the bridge is, its builder is too often forgotten--and his life is of interest far beyond his chosen field. It is the story of immigrants, of the frontier, of the greatest crisis in American history, and of the making of the modern world. Forty years after the publication of The Great Bridge, David McCullough's classic chronicle of how the East River was spanned, Erica Wagner has written a fascinating biography of one of America's most distinguished engineers, a man whose long life was a model of courage in the face of extraordinary adversity. Chief Engineer is enriched by Roebling's own eloquent voice, unveiled in his recently-discovered memoir that was previously thought lost to history. The memoir reveals that his father, John-a renowned engineer who made his life in America after humble beginnings in Germany-was a tyrannical presence in Washington's life, so his own adoption of that career was hard won. A young man when the Civil War broke out, Washington joined the Union Army, building bridges that carried soldiers across rivers and seeing action in many pivotal battles, from Antietam to Gettysburg-aspects of his life never before fully brought to light. Safely returned, he married the remarkable Emily Warren Roebling, who would play a crucial role in the construction of the unprecedented Brooklyn Bridge. It would be Washington Roebling's grandest achievement-but by no means the only one. Elegantly written with a compelling narrative sweep, Chief Engineer will introduce Washington Roebling and his era to a new generation of readers.
Author : Stanley Turkel
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463443404
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)
Download or read book Built to Last: 100+ Year-Old Hotels in New York written by Stanley Turkel and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirty-two century-old hotels featured in this book have defied the passage of time for a variety of reasons, many explicable, some beyond explanation, all miraculous. For eighteen of them, it was the fortuitous creation of the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission in 1965. The landmarks law was enacted in response to the demolition of the iconic Pennsylvania Station in 1963. After 139 years, the following evaluation is still true: "New York is the paradise of hotels. In no other city do they flourish in such numbers, and nowhere else do they attain such a degree of excellence. The hotels of New York naturally take the lead of all others in America, and are regarded by all who have visited them as models of their kind." James D. McCabe, Jr. Lights and Shadows of New York, 1872
Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199729107
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Gotham written by Edwin G. Burrows and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe. In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of New Amsterdam under the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant's despotic regime, Indian wars, slave resistance and revolt, the Revolutionary War and the defeat of Washington's army on Brooklyn Heights, the destructive seven years of British occupation, New York as the nation's first capital, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the Erie Canal and the coming of the railroads, the growth of the city as a port and financial center, the infamous draft riots of the Civil War, the great flood of immigrants, the rise of mass entertainment such as vaudeville and Coney Island, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the birth of the skyscraper. Here too is a cast of thousands--the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Clement Moore, who saved Greenwich Village from the city's street-grid plan; Herman Melville, who painted disillusioned portraits of city life; and Walt Whitman, who happily celebrated that same life. We meet the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Boss Tweed and his nemesis, cartoonist Thomas Nast; Emma Goldman and Nellie Bly; Jacob Riis and Horace Greeley; police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt; Colonel Waring and his "white angels" (who revolutionized the sanitation department); millionaires John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, August Belmont, and William Randolph Hearst; and hundreds more who left their mark on this great city. The events and people who crowd these pages guarantee that this is no mere local history. It is in fact a portrait of the heart and soul of America, and a book that will mesmerize everyone interested in the peaks and valleys of American life as found in the greatest city on earth. Gotham is a dazzling read, a fast-paced, brilliant narrative that carries the reader along as it threads hundreds of stories into one great blockbuster of a book.
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Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book New Pencil Points written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christiane Bird
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632867443
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book A Block in Time written by Christiane Bird and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single block in Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present. This is the story of New York City, told through the prism of one block, bordered by Twenty-third Street to the south, Twenty-fourth Street to the north, Fifth Avenue and Broadway to the east, and Sixth Avenue to the west. It's a story of forest and cement, bird cries and taxi horns, theaters and factories, gambling dens and gourmet foods. It's also the story of high life and low life, immigrants and tourists, farmers and aristocrats, crooked cops and moral reformers, toy stores and social climbers--from Solomon Pieters, a former slave who was the first owner of the block, to Alexander “Clubber” Williams, the notorious police officer of the 1870s who accepted bribes and wielded his club with equal impunity, to Marietta Stevens, whose Sunday-night socials and scheming became the stuff of legend. Greed and generosity, guilt and innocence, extravagance and degradation--all have flourished on this one Manhattan block, emblematic of the city as a whole. Venturing from the opulent halls of the Fifth Avenue Hotel to grimy Sixth Avenue brothels, from the era of the Lenape to that of the Dutch, from the Gilded Age to the twentieth century, when the block and the city were transformed into something closely resembling the Manhattan we know today, A Block in Time takes us on a dynamic, exhilarating tour of history. Welcome to New York, past and present, and hear all the sordid and edifying stories this small patch of land has to tell.
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Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pencil Points written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Boston Public Library
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Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book More Books written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.
