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Book New York City 5 Borough Street Atlas

Download or read book New York City 5 Borough Street Atlas written by Hagstom Map and published by Hagstrom Map Company. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nonstop Metropolis

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  • Author : Rebecca Solnit
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2016-10-19
  • ISBN : 0520285948
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Nonstop Metropolis written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonstop Metropolis,Êthe culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of expertsÑfrom linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalistsÑamplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are invited to travel through ManhattanÕs playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The contributors to this exquisitely designed and gorgeously illustrated volume celebrate New York CityÕs unique vitality, its incubation of the avant-garde, and its literary history, but they also critique its racial and economic inequality, environmental impact, and erasure of its past.ÊNonstop MetropolisÊallows us to excavate New YorkÕs buried layers, to scrutinize its political heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of capitalism, culture, immigration, and more. Contributors:ÊSheerly Avni,ÊGaiutra Bahadur,ÊMarshall Berman,ÊJoe Boyd,ÊWill Butler,ÊGarnette Cadogan,ÊThomas J. Campanella,ÊDaniel Aldana Cohen,ÊTeju Cole,ÊJoel Dinerstein,ÊPaul La Farge,ÊFrancisco Goldman,ÊMargo Jefferson,ÊLucy R. Lippard,ÊBarry Lopez,ÊValeria Luiselli,ÊSuketu Mehta,ÊEmily Raboteau, Molly Roy, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts,ÊLuc Sante,ÊHeather Smith,ÊJonathan Tarleton,ÊAstra Taylor,ÊAlexandra T. Vazquez,ÊChristina Zanfagna Interviews with:ÊValerie Capers, Peter Coyote, Grandmaster Caz,ÊGrand Wizzard Theodore,ÊMelle Mel, RZA

Book STREETWISE Queens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Streetwise Maps
  • Publisher : Streetwise Maps
  • Release : 2008-04-01
  • ISBN : 9781886705593
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book STREETWISE Queens written by Streetwise Maps and published by Streetwise Maps. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Five Borough Farm

Download or read book Five Borough Farm written by Nevin Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Naming New York

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  • Author : Sanna Feirstein
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2001-04
  • ISBN : 0814727115
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Naming New York written by Sanna Feirstein and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Historical Society docent Feirstein has written a historically rich guide to New York City that will entertain both New Yorkers and tourists as they walk through the Big Apple. The histories of the city's major neighborhoods, as well as the history of their names divide the book into sections, the remainder of which contains the names of streets, parks, plazas, corners, alleys, and avenues in that neighborhood and the history of each name. The guide is illustrated with bandw photos of New York's illustrious folk. c. Book News Inc.

Book Five Points

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  • Author : Tyler Anbinder
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-06-05
  • ISBN : 1439137749
  • Pages : 684 pages

Download or read book Five Points written by Tyler Anbinder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was invented. All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. Yet it was also a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters and dance halls, prizefighters and machine politicians, and meeting halls for the political clubs that would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich. Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs. Beginning with the Irish potato-famine influx in the 1840s, and ending with the rise of Chinatown in the early twentieth century, he weaves unforgettable individual stories into a tapestry of tenements, work crews, leisure pursuits both licit and otherwise, and riots and political brawls that never seemed to let up. Although the intimate stories that fill Anbinder's narrative are heart-wrenching, they are perhaps not so shocking as they first appear. Almost all of us trace our roots to once humble stock. Five Points is, in short, a microcosm of America.

Book New York Atlas

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  • Author : VanDam (Firm)
  • Publisher : Vandam Publishing
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780931141904
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book New York Atlas written by VanDam (Firm) and published by Vandam Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York City Slicker Map

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  • Author : American Map Corporation
  • Publisher : American Map
  • Release : 2005-11-15
  • ISBN : 9780841655959
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book New York City Slicker Map written by American Map Corporation and published by American Map. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York City Slicker includes a Manhattan street map, a road map of surrounding boroughs and other areas, places of interest such as museums, parks and places to shop in the Big Apple. Out of towners can travel with confidence when using Slicker maps. Easy to handle and easy to read, Slickers fold and unfold in a flash. Slickers are laminated which makes them markable and very durable, withstanding everyday usage during any travel itinerary you plan.

Book Hidden Waters of New York City

Download or read book Hidden Waters of New York City written by Sergey Kadinsky and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the forgotten waterways hidden throughout the five boroughs Beneath the asphalt streets of Manhattan, creeks and streams once flowed freely. The remnants of these once-pristine waterways are all over the Big Apple, hidden in plain sight. Hidden Waters of New York City offers a glimpse at the big city’s forgotten past and ever-changing present, including: Minetta Brook, which ran through today's Greenwich Village Collect Pond in the Financial District, the city's first water source Newtown Creek, separating Brooklyn and Queens Bronx River, still a hotspot for urban canoeing and hiking Filled with eye-opening historical anecdotes and walking tours of all five boroughs, this is a side of New York City you’ve never seen.

Book Urban Ornithology

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  • Author : P. A. Buckley
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-12-15
  • ISBN : 1501719629
  • Pages : 535 pages

Download or read book Urban Ornithology written by P. A. Buckley and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Urban Ornithology".

Book New York at Its Core

Download or read book New York at Its Core written by Museum of the City of New York and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the award-winning, critically acclaimed exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, New York at Its Core takes readers on a whirlwind journey through the 400-year history of the five boroughs to find out how a striving village on the periphery of the Dutch trading empire became the booming metropolis that is today¿s capital of the world. New York at Its Core finds the key in four defining themes that have shaped the city since its inception: money, diversity, density, and creativity. This lavishly illustrated book features nearly 400 objects and images from the one-of-a-kind exhibition, revealing how these themes evolved and interacted to create the city we know today, a subject of fascination the world over visited by millions of people every year. Covering New York¿s entire 400-year history and inviting a look into the city¿s future, New York at Its Core chronicles the cycles of crisis and reinvention that gave rise to one of the world¿s most diverse and densely populated places, a city that has shaped the course of events for the nation and the world.

Book Atlas of the City of New York  Manhattan Island

Download or read book Atlas of the City of New York Manhattan Island written by George Washington Bromley and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 56 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.

Book New York City 5 Borough Street Atlas

Download or read book New York City 5 Borough Street Atlas written by Hagstrom Map and published by Hagstrom Map Company. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hagstrom New York City 5 Borough Street Atlas

Download or read book Hagstrom New York City 5 Borough Street Atlas written by Hagstrom Maps and published by Hagstrom Map Company. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Map Road Atlas

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  • Author : American Map Corporation
  • Publisher : Langenscheidt Publishing Group
  • Release : 2005-08-15
  • ISBN : 0841628009
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book American Map Road Atlas written by American Map Corporation and published by Langenscheidt Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This atlas with digital cartography details North America, including city vicinity maps, national park maps, and an adventure travel section to help you plan vacations.

Book New York City 5 Borough Pocket Atlas

Download or read book New York City 5 Borough Pocket Atlas written by Hagstrom Map Company and published by Hagstrom Map Company. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York City 5 Borough atlas is the most accurate of its kind. It includes a full street index, history, postal zones and stations, outdoor activities, a map of the Theater District and of Downtown, and a map of main routes that pass through the areas of New York City, eastern New Jersey, Nassau County, NY and Fairfield County, CT. The atlas shows 321 square miles of crisp, new digitized map, which makes all of the details sharper and cleaner. Features in this atlas include subway lines and stops, transportation information, and tolls for bridges and tunnels, airport maps, building numbers, direction of streets in Manhattan, schools, hospitals, ZIP codes and other points of interest in New York City.

Book Driving Hungry

Download or read book Driving Hungry written by Layne Mosler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrift in Buenos Aires, Layne Mosler was hungry—for an excellent (and cheap) meal, for a great story, for a new direction. A chance recommendation from a taxi driver helped her find all these things, and sparked a quest that would take her to three cities, meeting people from all walks of life, and finding an array of unexpected flavors. A story about following your passion, the pleasures of not always knowing your destination, and the beauty of chance encounters, Driving Hungry is a vivid, and inspiring, read from first to last.