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Book Tentative Report on Kill Van Kull Bridge Between Bayonne  N J   and Port Richmond  Staten Island  N Y

Download or read book Tentative Report on Kill Van Kull Bridge Between Bayonne N J and Port Richmond Staten Island N Y written by Port of New York Authority and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kill Van Kull Navigation Project  Newark Bay  NY NJ

Download or read book Kill Van Kull Navigation Project Newark Bay NY NJ written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Six Bridges

Download or read book Six Bridges written by Darl Rastorfer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Othmar Ammann created six long-span bridges in New York, as part of the region's interstate highway system. They came to define an epoch and shape the modern New York metropolis. This book shows the physical transformation of the city, the construction and the completed bridges.

Book Safety and Reliability of Bridge Structures

Download or read book Safety and Reliability of Bridge Structures written by Khaled Mahmoud and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent surveys of the U.S. infrastructure‘s condition have rated a staggering number of bridges structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. While not necessarily unsafe, a structurally deficient bridge must be posted for weight and have limits for speed, due to its deteriorated structural components. Bridges with old design features that canno

Book The Jewish Community of Staten Island

Download or read book The Jewish Community of Staten Island written by Jenny Tango and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a small group of Jewish immigrants carved out their own vibrant community in Staten Island. Jewish settlers clustered around the Arietta Street, St. George, Bergen Point, and Perth Amboy ferries and built seven synagogues and a Jewish community center. Jewish dry goods, candy, hardware, and men's furnishings stores sprung up along the major shopping areas of Jersey Street and Richmond Avenue. As the Jewish population grew, it expanded into new developments in Willowbrook, Eltingville, and Arden Heights and was able to support a Jewish elementary school.

Book The Encyclopedia of New York City

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of New York City written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 1582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published. But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman has become an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration—Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side—has become commonplace. To reflect such innovation and change, this definitive, one-volume resource on the city has been completely revised and expanded. The revised edition includes 800 new entries that help complete the story of New York: from Air Train to E-ZPass, from September 11 to public order. The new material includes broader coverage of subject areas previously underserved as well as new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries—spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more—have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades. The more than 5,000 alphabetical entries and 700 illustrations of the second edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City convey the richness and diversity of its subject in great breadth and detail, and will continue to serve as an indispensable tool for everyone who has even a passing interest in the American metropolis.

Book Annual Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : Port of New York Authority
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by Port of New York Authority and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Great Projects

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Tobin
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-06-12
  • ISBN : 0743214765
  • Pages : 501 pages

Download or read book Great Projects written by James Tobin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the earliest days of the republic, great engineering projects have shaped American landscapes and expressed American dreams. The ambition to build lies as close to the nation's heart as the belief in liberty. We live in a built civilization, connected one to another in an enormous web of technology. Yet we have all too often overlooked the role of engineers and builders in American history. With glorious photographs and epic narrative sweep, Great Projects at last gives their story the prominence it deserves. Each of the eight projects featured in this masterful narrative was a milestone in its own right: the flood-control works of the lower Mississippi, Hoover Dam, Edison's lighting system, the spread of electricity across the nation, the great Croton Aqueduct, the bridges of New York City, Boston's revamped street system, known as the Big Dig, and the ever-evolving communica- tions network called the Internet. Each project arose from a heroic vision. Each encountered obstacles. Each reveals a tale of genius and perseverance. James Tobin, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award, explains the four essential tasks of the engineer: to protect people from the destructive force of water while harnessing it for the enormous good it can do; to provide people with electricity, the motive force of modern life; to make great cities habitable and vital; and to create the pathways that connect place to place and person to person. Tobin focuses on the indi- viduals behind our greatest structures of earth and concrete and steel: James Buchanan Eads, who walked on the floor of the Mississippi to learn the river's secrets; Arthur Powell Davis and Frank Crowe, who imagined a dam that could transform the West; Thomas Edison, who envisioned a new way to light the world; Samuel Insull, the organizational mastermind of the electrical revolution; the long-forgotten John Bloomfield Jervis, who assured New York's future with the gift of clean water; Othmar Ammann, the modest Swiss-American who fought his mentor to become the first engineer to bridge the lower Hudson River; Fred Salvucci, the antihighway rebel who transformed the face of Boston; and J.C.R. Licklider, the obscure scientist who first imagined the Internet. Here, too, are the workers who scorned hardship to turn the engineers' dreams into reality, deep underground and high in the sky, through cold and heat and danger. In Great Projects -- soon to be a major PBS television series by the Emmy Award-winning Great Projects Film Company -- we share their dreams and witness their struggles; we watch them create the modern world we walk through each day -- the "city upon a hill" that became our America.

Book United States Coast Pilot  Atlantic Coast  Part V

Download or read book United States Coast Pilot Atlantic Coast Part V written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Legislative Document

Download or read book Legislative Document written by New York (State). Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Engineering World

Download or read book Engineering World written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Engineering and Cement World

Download or read book Engineering and Cement World written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Industrial Arts Index

Download or read book The Industrial Arts Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Staten Island Bridges Program  Modernization and Capacity Enhancement Project

Download or read book Staten Island Bridges Program Modernization and Capacity Enhancement Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hudson

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur G. Adams
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 1981-06-30
  • ISBN : 0791494225
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book The Hudson written by Arthur G. Adams and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1981-06-30 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive guide to the Hudson since the works of Ernest Ingersoll were published in the early 1900s. It arrives to fulfill the need for a new detailed, point-by-point guide to the river from its intersection with the Atlantic to its source in the Adirondacks. Five possible routes for the traveler are given: directly up the main steamboat channel, road routes on the east and west shores, and rail routes along the east and west shores. The road routes follow the riverbanks as closely as possible and also provide excursions to the many points of historical interest and contemporary development in the river valley. Maps provide detailed guides for excursions. For both armchair and actual travelers, Arthur Adams has condensed his considerable knowledge of the natural river, navigation, regional history, and the architecture along the river in this book. Many excerpts from American authors provide perspectives on the valley from other eras, and Adams combines descriptions of well-known events in American history, such as Benedict Arnold's meeting with Major Andre, with the stories of ordinary people and origins of place names that deepen one's feeling for the river. Contemporary economic development is also noted, and the fluctuating economic fortunes of river towns and always changing patterns of residence and employment are noted. From the Abyssal Plain to Doodletown and Chevaux-de-Frise, past Anthony's Nose, Burdens Iron Works, and the Saratoga Battle Field to the Hudson's source at Lake Tear of the Clouds, this Guidebook provides practical information and enjoyable perspectives. Take it along!

Book New York City  Vol 1  New York City Guide

Download or read book New York City Vol 1 New York City Guide written by and published by US History Publishers. This book was released on with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: