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Book 74th Street Stories

Download or read book 74th Street Stories written by Gary Mielo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't ask author Gary Mielo what it was like to grow up in North Bergen, New Jersey. He's likely to relate personal essays and anecdotes that include "the most heinous experience, the one which can easily produce the deepest and most lasting of scars, is an affliction known as the senior prom". He'll evoke "a time when yellow air raid shelter signs, hanging on the walls of virtually all candy stores, ice cream parlors, and other public buildings, reported the way to alleged underground safety". And narrate the demise of his 1955 DeSoto "while traversing one of the world's most heavily trafficked truck routes, the infamous Tonnelle Avenue". Comprised of 44 personal essays, 74th Street Stories extols New Jersey's Hudson County as it and its North Bergen residents lived through two of the most bizarre decades in recent history, namely the Cold War 1950s and the Strung Out 1960s. Nevertheless, the moments of sudden awareness recounted in many of these essays go beyond the merely wistful or the distinctively reminiscent. The characters and incidents described in 74th Street Stories have their roots in a town and a county that nurtured an identity that was nothing less than wonderfully peculiar.

Book Our Lady of West 74th Street

Download or read book Our Lady of West 74th Street written by Harry Steven Ackley and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While doing research for a book on the paranormal, anthropology professor Emily Campbell investigates recent events at a New York City day care center. Her findings, along with developments in her own life, cause Emily to question long-held opinions and to see her past in a new light.But Emily is not the only one whose world is changing. She is only one player in a drama that has been unfolding for centuries — a spiritual tug-o-war surrounding an ancient object with the power to transform the hearts of humankind. As Emily tries to understand the signs around her, others are attempting to make sure she never does.

Book Desire Street

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jed Horne
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2005-02-03
  • ISBN : 1429926759
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Desire Street written by Jed Horne and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing anatomy of a New Orleans murder trial and a system of justice gone wrong. In a New Orleans supermarket parking lot in the fall of 1984 ,two disparate lives become inextricably bound for the next fourteen years. The first, the life of Delores Dye, a white housewife and grandmother. The second, a young black man with a gun in hand. Moments following their maybe not so chance encounter, Mrs. Dye lay dead on the sunbaked macadam, and the killer had made off with her purse, her groceries, and her car. Four days later, following a tip, authorities arrested a known drug dealer and father of five named Curtis Kyles. Kyles would then be tried for Mrs. Dye's murder an unprecedented five times, though he maintained his innocence throughout each trial. Convicted and sentenced to death in his second trial, he would spend fourteen years on death row. After a fifth jury was unable to reach a verdict, New Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick, Sr., finally conceded defeat and dropped the murder charge. But the case slowly yielded a deeper drama: The crime turned out to have been the side effect of an intricately plotted act of revenge. That police and prosecutors may have been complicit in the vengeance that framed Kyles cuts to the heart of a system of justice for Southern blacks in the era since lynch mobs were shamed into obsolescence. A compellingly written legal drama that has at its heart passionate intrigue and justice gone awry. Desire Street is a 2006 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime.

Book Early Days at the 74th Street Power Plant Site

Download or read book Early Days at the 74th Street Power Plant Site written by Susan Elizabeth Lyman and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Court of Appeals  Records and Briefs

Download or read book New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: (Matter of Heller v. Cohen) (Hirsch v. Associated Metals & Minerals Corp.) (Hirsch v. Associated Metals & Minerals Corp.) (Hirsch v. Associated Metals & Minerals Corp.) (Hofmann v. Hobbs) (Hofmann v. Hobbs) (Hofmann v. Hobbs) (Horn v. Comm. Travelers Mut. Accident Assoc. of Amer.) (Horn v. Comm. Travelers Mut. Accident Assoc. of Amer.) (Horn v. Comm. Travelers Mut. Accident Assoc. of Amer.) (Horne v. Mount Vernon Die Casting Corp.) (Horne v. Mount Vernon Die Casting Corp.) (Horne v. Mount Vernon Die Casting Corp.) (Horne v. Mount Vernon Die Casting Corp.) (Horowitz v. Burton Brewing Co.) (Horowitz v. Burton Brewing Co.) (Horowitz v. Burton Brewing Co.) (Horowitz v. Burton Brewing Co.) (People ex rel Horwitz v. Miller) (People ex rel Horwitz v. Miller) (People ex rel Horwitz v. Miller) (People ex rel Horwitz v. Miller) (Hyde v. MacBraswell) (Hyde v. MacBraswell) (Hyde v. MacBraswell)

Book Annual Report of the New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured   Crippled

Download or read book Annual Report of the New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured Crippled written by New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Supreme Court

Download or read book New York Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Real Estate Record and Builders  Guide

Download or read book Real Estate Record and Builders Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Architect

Download or read book American Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Amazing Story of The Fantasticks

Download or read book The Amazing Story of The Fantasticks written by Donald C. Farber and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Amazing Story of the Fantasticks is the detailed history of how this fabulously successful show by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt came into being and how and why it succeeded. In tracing the evolution of the show from an idea to a cultural phenomenon, the book takes readers through the countless auditions to attract backers, the search for theaters to hold tryouts (which indicated disaster), and eventual popular success. Among the actors who have performed in the musical are Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Chamberlain, Elliott Gould, Bert Lahr, Liza Minnelli, Robert Goulet, and Glenn Close."--Jacket.

Book Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories

Download or read book Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new collection of chilling stories by master of horror Kim Newman, in which Jack the Ripper still stalks the streets, Frankenstein’s monster rises from the Arctic ice, and the terrifying legacy of Dr Jeyll and Mr Hyde haunts fog-shrouded London. This volume also includes a brand-new, exclusive Anno Dracula story, ‘Yokai Town: Anno Dracula 1899’, which sets the scene for the forthcoming novel Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju.

Book Cross Harbor Freight Movement Project in Kings  Queens  Richmond Counties  New York  and Hudson  Union  Middlesex  Essex Counties  New Jersey

Download or read book Cross Harbor Freight Movement Project in Kings Queens Richmond Counties New York and Hudson Union Middlesex Essex Counties New Jersey written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Court of Appeals State of New York

Download or read book Court of Appeals State of New York written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Building

Download or read book Building written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supreme Court

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  • Pages : 1012 pages

Download or read book Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bernard Pepperlin

Download or read book Bernard Pepperlin written by Cara Hoffman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bernard and his newfound friends--revolutionary rats, wise-cracking cats, and coffee-chugging squirrels, to name a few--will delight and inspire readers of all ages!" --Erin Entrada Kelly, Newbery Medal-winning author of Hello, Universe The drowsy Dormouse from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is transported to modern-day New York City for the adventure of a lifetime in this middle grade novel that's perfect for fans of Stuart Little and written by critically acclaimed author Cara Hoffman. When a girl in a blue dress crashes the Mad Hatter's eternal tea party, the sleepy Dormouse feels more awake than he has in a long time. He wishes he could follow her and be a part of her adventure. And as luck would have it, a surprising twist of fate sends the Dormouse on an adventure of his own, where he must not fall asleep. For he is destined to save a magical world outside Wonderland, and it will take all his courage--and a few new friends--to do it.

Book Upper West Side Story

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Salwen
  • Publisher : Peter Salwen
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780896598942
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Upper West Side Story written by Peter Salwen and published by Peter Salwen. This book was released on 1989 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As any resident, restaurateur, or realtor will tell you, New York's Upper West Side--that swath of Manhattan between Central Park and the Hudson River, from roughly Columbus Circle to Columbia University--is the place for fashionable dining, dwelling, and dressing up. But the Young Urban Professionals now discovering the area (and many oldtimers, too) might be surprised to learn that other colonists had preceded them by two or three hundred years--Dutch farmers and English gentry with names like Theunis Idens van Huys, Hendrick Hendrickon Bosch, Charles Ward Apthorpe, and Oliver De Lancey. The names of many later residents are more familiar: Edgar Allan Poe, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lillian Russell, Diamond Jim Brady, Florenz Ziegfeld, Arturo Toscanini, Fanny Brice, William Randolph Hearst, Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Mumford, Humphrey Bogart (he was a child there), Lauren Bacall (so was she), Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Leonard Bernstein, John Lennon. Quite a neighborhood. And Peter Salwen’s Upper West Side Story is quite a book: an engaging, often hilarious history of this fabulous city-within-a-city. It is a treasury of colorful biographies--of farmers, tycoons, thieves, and artists. It is an architectural grand tour--of the Dakota, the Ansonia, Lincoln Center, and the romantic residential skyscrapers of Central Park West. It is a compendium of Manhattan lore and delightful as well as occasionally horrifying trivia, enough to turn even a casual browser into the Compleat Upper West Sider. The story of this dynamic neighborhood begins with the colonial period, when merchant princes commanded royal views of the Hudson--until the approach of Washington’s troops drove them from their mansions--and continues through the bucolic nineteenth century, when the Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum at 116th and Broadway (site of today's Columbia University) was the Upper West Side's prime tourist attraction. By the turn of the [twentieth] century, the fashionable “West End," as the neighborhood was then known, boasted extravagant mansions and private homes, grand parks and equestrian boulevards, and its own unique theatrical and night life. Author Peter Salwen chronicles those high-living years, and the half century of inexorable decline that followed--with its poverty and often sensational crime--and brings us up-to-date with a lively account of [the 1980s'] galloping renaissance. [This book] is living history--an unfinished story--generously illustrated with vintage engravings and photos of the buildings and people great and humble (those still with us and those that are no more). Also included are special walking tours to suit all levels of ambition and energy, and a who’s who of famous and infamous residents and where they lived."--Dust jacket.