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Author : Charles William Leng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Staten Island and Its People written by Charles William Leng and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles William Leng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Staten Island and Its People, a History, 1609-1933 written by Charles William Leng and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claire Jimenez
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421434156
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Staten Island Stories written by Claire Jimenez and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, this collection of loosely linked tragicomic short stories travels across time to explore defining moments in the island's history, from the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash and the New York City blackout to the growing opioid and heroin crisis, Eric Garner's murder, and the 2016 presidential election.
Author : Janet Medoro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942500513
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Our Staten Island written by Janet Medoro and published by . This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OUR STATEN ISLAND was the working and eventual title of this book - and appropriately so. Being fourth-generation-born Staten Islanders, my brother and I had a special sense of being native early on. Our family laid down the bare roots that made us realize that our story here began, in what seemed to us "olden times." Along with their stories was a simple book of our grandfather's relating the history of Staten Island. Its photos - many of ancient structures from the 1700's - were powerful images that made "the old" come to life. They gave us an idea of how our family's lives fit into the context of times and events on a still rural Island. Once we latched on to our budding interest in history, we never let go, and it eventually demanded that we follow through; not only to learn the history of our family, but of Staten Island as well. Unwittingly, the journey began by collecting newspaper stories and images over time. Eventually we made our way to the reference section of our libraries and museum archives where we came to know who the really good borough historians were, and their works. Eventually we gave motion to what we had learned and collected over the years by taking this legacy "on the road" - by car and eventually on foot - to visit the subject matter "in person." We created our own tours and saw a certain value in walking the old native Indian trails that became the Island's first roads, so they could fully speak their history to us. In doing so, we literally covered hundreds of miles paying homage to the place we live and love! This passionate pursuit, in retrospect, became an excellent journey that needed to be shared. No other writer has offered up a history of Staten Island in this unique way of taking the reader on that journey of discovery to experience it just as we did: through woods, along old roads; through centuries of change, people and events along the way as we learned the history of "Our Staten Island."
Author : Patricia Smith
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617751294
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Staten Island Noir written by Patricia Smith and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of short stories featuring noir and crime fiction about Staten Island, New York, by such authors as Todd Craig, Linda Nieves-Powell, S. J. Rozan, and Patricia Smith.
Author : Arthur Nersesian
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070529
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Swing Voter of Staten Island written by Arthur Nersesian and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nersesian’s extravagantly imagined dystopia relies—as did those in Philip Roth’s Plot Against America and Michael Chabon’s Yiddish Policemen’s Union—on an alternate, counterfactual history.”—The New York Times Book Review “Combining sci-fi space/time-warping, Unabomber-style political ranting and an overall air of goose-bump paranoia, this is one turbo-charged trip. . . . A sharp, strange read: Imagine William Burroughs and Philip K. Dick sharing a needle.”—Kirkus Reviews “Brilliant.”—Time Out New York Arthur Nersesian’s six previous novels (including The Fuck-Up, MTV/Pocket Books, which has sold over 100,000 copies) have focused on the tragicomedy of fin de siècle New York City. Here, in his boldest novel to date, Nersesian has broken through into a new landscape that at once fuses the real with the surreal, the psychological with the psychedelic. He lives in New York City.
Author : Barnett Shepherd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615342948
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Tottenville written by Barnett Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tottenville is located on the southwestern tip of Staten Island and is the southernmost point in New York City and New York State. Far from the urban culture of Manhattan, Tottenville boasts a feeling of independence and isolation. The village of Tottenville came into being around 1840. Its economy and culture arose from oyster fishing, shipbuilding and ship repair, and agriculture. Its trade routes with New Jersey and New York City linked it to the metropolitan region and the greater world. It became the largest town in Westfield, the historic name for this quarter of Staten Island. Even today, although a part of New York City, and encroached upon by modern suburban culture, the feeling of a small coastal town prevails with characteristics unlike any other place on Staten Island. This book documents the activities of the people who created Tottenville and caused it to flourish.
Author : Charles William Leng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Staten Island and Its People written by Charles William Leng and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynda Lee Macken
Publisher : Black Cat Press (NJ)
ISBN 13 : 9780970071804
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Haunted History of Staten Island written by Lynda Lee Macken and published by Black Cat Press (NJ). This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugene R. Fingerhut
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791463710
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (637 download)
Download or read book The Other New York written by Eugene R. Fingerhut and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays exploring rural New York during the American Revolution.
Author : Staten Island 350 Anniversary Committee
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614230870
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Discovering Staten Island written by Staten Island 350 Anniversary Committee and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the five boroughs of New York City, Staten Island has a rich and colorful past, and it is full of places where people have shaped the city, state and nation. To commemorate its 350th anniversary, local community leaders and educators have gathered together this unprecedented collection. Walk in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, Susan B. Anthony, Langston Hughes, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Dalai Lama; visit Revolutionary War sites; relive the entrepreneurial drive and inventiveness of business and medical pioneers; and imagine the lives of Irish, Norwegian, Italian, Sri Lankan and Liberian immigrants. Its shores are awash in history, from Lenape trails to Dutch and French farms, from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company to legendary sports figures and quaint historic districts. Their struggles, hardships, triumphs and achievements, in spectacular and everyday Staten Island locations, are brought to life.
Author : John Louis Sublett
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781440443503
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Staten Island written by John Louis Sublett and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were there really four airports here? Was the Staten Island Airport shut down each night to ensure no peril to the patrons of the drive-in theater? Is there truly a 150 foot dormant tunnel under the harbor between Staten Island and Brooklyn with the entrance capped in Brooklyn? In the 1930's, Which of Staten Island's best known restaurateurs, bought a house across the street from his famous restaurant and built a 200-foot tunnel between the house and the restaurant so that he could safely carry the day's receipts from the restaurant to his home. Did President John Kennedy, sip coffee at the St. George ferry terminal? Can you believe that a famous Island milk company resorted to rowboats to delivery milk to areas from Oakwood to Midland Beach during some of the worst storms to every hit that area? Did Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley have a Wild West show in 1886 down at Erastina (Mariners Harbor)? In what year was a bomb actually exploded on a Staten Island Ferry?
Author : Bruce Kershner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780787248918
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Secret Places of Staten Island written by Bruce Kershner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Moakley
Publisher : Damiani Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788862084482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Christine Osinski: Summer Days Staten Island written by Paul Moakley and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken in the "forgotten borough" of Staten Island between 1983 and 1984, the photographs in Christine Osinski's (born 1948) Summer Days Staten Islandcreate a portrait of working-class culture in an often overlooked section of New York City. Captured on Osinski's large format 4x5 camera as she wandered the island, her candid portraits of strangers, vernacular architecture and quotidian scenes reveal an invisible landscape within reach of the thriving metropolis of Manhattan. The neighborhoods that Osinski captured are devoid of the skyscrapers, swarms of pedestrians and choking masses of traffic that are a short ferry ride away. Instead, she captures kids riding bikes on open, empty streets, suburban homes with neatly tended yards and the small-town feel of New York's least populous borough. Accompanying the series of images is an essay by Paul Moakley, Timemagazine's Deputy Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise.
Author : John Louis Sublett
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781450502573
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Staten Island written by John Louis Sublett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, my third book about Staten Island, takes a look into our islands rich and diverse past in a series of short stories. Be they myth, folklore, legend or tales, they have been past down from generation to generation. Some are proven true, some are believed to be false but the one thing they all have in common, they have been repeated time after time and they are fascinating stories. I am sure that some of these stories will bring up fond memories of Staten Islands past. Some of what you will discover in this book are, tales of a Mad Monk in St. Augustine Monastery, Lost Treasure off Staten Island shores, a story about a colorful character called The Indian Lady from Shooters Island, find out why a Nazi prisoner returned after his escape from the armys Halloran General Hospital (Willowbroow State School), discover the connection that Ichabod Crane, the Lindbergh baby, Willie Sutton and the Queen of England had to Staten Island, sit back and enjoy stories of stills and moonshine, gangsters, buried treasures, local ghosts and much more.
Author : Staten Island Institute of Arts and S
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016357982
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Staten Island Names; Ye Olde Names and Nicknames written by Staten Island Institute of Arts and S and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 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. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : George Batchelor
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483853379
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Staten Island: One Vast City, One Million Inhabitants, One Hour to New York; A Dream with His Eyes Full-Opened (Classic Reprint) written by George Batchelor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Staten Island: One Vast City, One Million Inhabitants, One Hour to New York; A Dream With His Eyes Full-Opened Emerging in the neighborhood of the Atlantic basin like a natural dock - the first land descried by the spy glass of the mariner as he rides into the Bay and the last to be discerned as he sails ocean-bound through the Nar rows - staten island, more by its advantages of position than by any thrilling incident to. Signalize its career, has been consociated with the early discoveries of the Ameri can continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
