Download or read book Bay Ridge on the Chesapeake written by Jane Wilson McWilliams and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Bay Ridge Became Bay Ridge written by Henry Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neighborhoods don't just happen. With unprecedented detail, local historian Henry Stewart (True Crime Bay Ridge) reveals how a quiet Dutch farming community in Kings County was transformed into a bustling small city. Along the way he uncovers the forgotten stories of local Native Americans, slaves and artists while exploring long-demolished cemeteries, elevated trains, country clubs and waterfront resorts. How Bay Ridge Became Bay Ridge is a revelatory portrait of how a Brooklyn community was built, park by park and block by block-the story of Bay Ridge as it's never been told before. Henry Stewart is a journalist. He lives in Bay Ridge, where he has always lived, with his wife.
Download or read book Bay Ridge written by Matthew Scarpa and published by Postcard History. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bay Ridge, located on the southernmost western point of Long Island, was once a small rural community along the banks of the Lower New York Bay. When the Township of New Utrecht, which governed and included Bay Ridge, was annexed to the City of Brooklyn in 1894, its rural character changed dramatically, growing into a thriving urban center, both diverse and prosperous, complete with fine country day clubs for social and cultural refinement. A unique glimpse and intimate portrait of this rural part of Brooklyn is provided through the picture postcards of the early 20th century. These beautifully illustrated postal prints feature many of Bay Ridge's finest attractions, exploring the picturesque beauty of its country-style landscape, its back roads and stately homes, and its urban city-dwelling environment with mass transportation systems connecting it with Brooklyn and Greater New York.
Download or read book Brooklyn s Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton written by Brian Merlis and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book True Crime Bay Ridge written by Henry Stewart and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-famous kidnappers, shot outside a Shore Road mansion. A local barfly, burned alive in her Ridge Boulevard apartment. A third-grader at St. Anselm's, plucked off Third Avenue. These are just a few of the true tales of murder, kidnapping and gunplay featured in this collection, culled from the blog Hey Ridge, each set on the streets and in the homes of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Did the Mafia dump bodies on Oliver Street? Was a would-be serial killer bludgeoning his victims near Flagg Court? Using contemporary newspaper accounts, as well as trial transcripts and out-of-print books, local historian Henry Stewart assembles vivid accounts of the crimes, the victims, the perpetrators and the neighborhood, revealing that this sleepy, suburban community has always had a darker side-which many residents would sooner forget. "A dark delight...Stewart raises the bar by laying out these tales in chronological order, tracing the evolution of Bay Ridge through its crimes...well written and compulsively page turning." - Tim McLoughlin, Brooklyn Noir
Download or read book Steelwork written by Gilbert Sorrentino and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In short, colourful dramatic episodes, teh profoundly moving book details the collapse of a basically decent and honourable group of people into a corrupt and ignorant conglomeration.
Download or read book Bay Ridge written by Peter Scarpa and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A community overlooking the New York Bay, Bay Ridge began to change in the 1900s and has since continued to evolve. Rapid population growth in the 20th century caused the community to shift from an agrarian society to a prime urban center of stores, houses of worship, homes, and mass transportation.
Download or read book Bay Area Ridge Trail written by Jean Rusmore and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official guide to the ever-growing Bay Area Ridge Trail, a proposed 400-mile route that circles the ridgeline of the San Francisco Bay, crossing over nine counties. Five new trails and 13 more miles await discovery in this new edition, bringing the mileage of the completed Ridge Trail to 225.
Download or read book Old Bay Ridge Ovington Village written by Matthew Scarpa and published by Brief History. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bay Ridge was once a quaint and rural pocket of suburban Brooklyn. With the establishment of Ovington Village in the 1850s, the area became a haven for artists and businessmen alike. The area still bears remnants of its artistic and historic past. The beautiful Narrows that so inspired this guild served as a vital point of defense in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Throughout the past two centuries, Bay Ridge has thrived with a diverse immigrant population living alongside Brooklyn elites like Henry C. Murphy, whose opulent estate is now scenic Owl's Head Park. Local author Matthew Scarpa reveals the extraordinary places, people and events in Bay Ridge history.
Download or read book More True Crime Bay Ridge written by Henry Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landlord, gunned down on Gatling Place. A guidance counselor, blown up on 91st Street. A sophomore at Fort Hamilton, executed in Owl's Head Park. In this standalone work, local historian Henry Stewart follows up True Crime Bay Ridge with eleven more stories of thievery, kidnapping and murder. Together, they illuminate the neighborhood's past by focusing on the lives of its unluckiest and most notorious residents, from the bank robbers who ran a roadhouse on 92nd Street to the madam who managed a brothel on 86th Street. Spanning a century, from 1886 to 1982, More True Crime Bay Ridge uses contemporary newspaper accounts to uncover a parallel history of this quiet community, which has long had a place on its margins for the dissolute and the doomed. Henry Stewart is a journalist and historian. He lives in Bay Ridge, where he has always lived, with his wife. "Nobody knows Bay Ridge quite like Henry Stewart. Get ready for another wild ride: in punchy tabloid style, this is a bullet-spattered journey to the end of Brooklyn that you'll never forget." -Kevin Walsh, Forgotten New York, Forgotten Queens
Download or read book Virgin with Child written by Tom McDonough and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1981 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As Father Jack Sullivan shambles through his quotidian duties at the Stella Maris Church in Brooklyn, he is prey to the temptations of his not-so-solid flesh. Not least of these temptations is Sister Marian, the demi-liberated nun who will become his lover. Slightly off-center stands the almost wholly nonverbal little altar boy, whose purity attests to the terrestrial nature of heaven and hell. The subject of the book is, finally Sin -- and by extension, guilt -- a preoccupation most notably marked by the absence of discourse or reflection about it. This is a wild and joyous psalm of blasphemy and beatitude, madness and miracle."--Jacket flap.
Download or read book Ringolevio written by Emmett Grogan and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ringolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s. Emmett Grogan grew up on New York City’s mean streets, getting hooked on heroin before he was in his teens, kicking the habit and winning a scholarship to a swanky Manhattan private school, pursuing a highly profitable sideline as a Park Avenue burglar, then skipping town to enjoy the dolce vita in Italy. It’s a hard-boiled, sometimes hard-to-believe, wildly entertaining tale that takes a totally unexpected turn when Grogan washes up in sixties San Francisco and becomes a leader of the anarchist group known as the Diggers. The Diggers, devoted to street theater, direct action, and distributing free food, were in the thick of the legendary Summer of Love, and soon Grogan is struggling with the naive narcissism of the hippies, the marketing of revolution as a brand, dogmatic radicals, and false prophets like tripster Timothy Leary. Above all, however, he struggles with himself. Ringolevio is an enigmatic portrait of a man and his times to set beside Hunter S. Thompson’s stories of fear and loathing, Norman Mailer’s The Armies of the Night, or the recent Chronicles of Bob Dylan, who dedicated his 1978 album Street Legal to the memory of Emmett Grogan.
Download or read book Dancing in the Streets of Brooklyn written by April Lurie and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thirteen-year-old Judy Strand, summers in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, bustle with games of stickball played in the street, fun-filled outings to neighboring Coney Island, and her family’s yearly trip to the Catskill Mountains. But in July 1944, Judy’s carefree days and her innocence are shaken by a discovery: The man she’s always called Pa isn’t her real father. Even more shocking, Judy learns that the father she doesn’t remember was an alcoholic who abandoned his family. That’s why Judy’s mother emigrated to America from Norway. Now Judy feels jumbled inside: She’s angry at her mother for keeping the truth from her–and she’s suddenly awkward around Pa. Nothing her parents say soothes the hurt. At first, even the attentions of Jacob Jacobsen don’t make her feel any better. Judy likes Jacob; it’s just that his dad’s drinking binges hit too close to home. Ashamed, Judy doesn’t want anyone to find out her secret. But as misfortune befalls Jacob, Judy’s close friends, and her own family, Judy rallies to their side, and in the process recognizes that growing up encompasses forgiveness–of others and of herself.
Download or read book Purgatory Ridge written by William Kent Krueger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When mayhem descends on a tiny logging town, former sheriff Cork O’Connor is called upon to investigate a murder in this “wonderful page-turner” (The Denver Post) that “prolongs suspense to the very end” (Publishers Weekly) by Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger. Not far from Aurora, Minnesota (population 3,752), lies an ancient expanse of great white pines, sacred to the Anishinaabe tribe. When an explosion kills the night watchman at wealthy industrialist Karl Lindstrom’s nearby lumber mill, it’s obvious where suspicion will fall. Former sheriff Cork O’Connor agrees to help investigate, but he has mixed feelings about the case. For one thing, he is part Anishinaabe. For another, his wife, a lawyer, represents the tribe. Meanwhile, near Lindstrom’s lakeside home, a reclusive shipwreck survivor and his sidekick are harboring their own resentment of the industrialist. And it soon becomes clear to Cork that danger, both at home and in Aurora, lurks around every corner…
Download or read book The Bay Ridge Bears written by Cheryl M. Kuenstle and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You never know what you'll find in the wilderness: A deserted cabin, a tablet and power cord, bears cleaning up the woods... Or, what it might lead to: Tales of polo playing fish, bike riding goats, horses crashing a play, a wild ride above the treetops, and a group of silly but loveable Brooklyn teddy bears.
Download or read book My Bay Ridge written by Rosemary Coppola Evensen and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in Bay Ridge in the 50's was the greatest gift you could have.It was the best place in the world to live and grow up, take a walk back and remember the fun & joy we had there.
Download or read book The Bay Ridge Chronicles written by Jerome F. X. Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
