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Download or read book The Story of the City of New York Classic Reprint written by Charles Burr Todd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of the City of New York In writing the story of New York, it has been the author's purpose to present a brief but comprehensive survey of the causes which led to the founding of the city, and of the various agencies which contributed to its marvellous growth, and to combine with this a narrative of such domestic details and romantic or picturesque incidents as would serve to render the picture clear and complete. The author hopes that his volume, while planned more particularly for the requirements of younger readers, may be found of service to citizens of all ages who may wish to inform themselves concerning the chief events in the history of the great city of the New World, and who may not find time for larger and more elaborate histories. It is startling to think that in twenty-five years, if the present rate of increase is continued, New York, with her history of two hundred and fifty years, will surpass London, with a life-time of twenty centuries, and will become the capital of the world - that is, in wealth and population. 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.

Download or read book History of the City of New York written by Mrs. Burton Harrison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the City of New York: Externals of Modern New York N bringing down to date the general history Of New York Since 1880, at which point, the able and conscientious chronicle of Mrs. Lamb came to a halt, it has been found possible to touch, Within the limits Of a Single chapter, upon only such salient features Of a great city's rapid strides in civilization as may prove interesting to the casual student of the time. For the Same Obvious reason, want Of space, it has been decided to tell the story Of the last fifth Of the century by thumb-nail Sketches Of the various departments Of the city's work and by a brief summary Of progress in social. 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.

Download or read book Empire City written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major anthology brings together the best literary writing about New York--from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck to Paul Auster and James Baldwin.

Download or read book History of the City of New York Classic Reprint written by David T. Valentine and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the City of New York The design of the author of this volume has been to trace the progress of the city of New York in such a manner as to illustrate, to the reader of the present day, its gradual development, from a Wilderness condition, through the maturing stages of a hamlet, a \illage and a city. It has been his study to follow, with minute attention, the different paths pursued in extending the habitations of the town, and to 'note the circumstances which Operated to establish the lines of the early thoroughfares, and the laying out of the plan of that part of the city originally settled. The names. Family circumstances, and 'many biographical facts connected with the inhabitants of the town, in verv early times, will be found amply referred to in the body of the work. And also in the Appendix. 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.

Download or read book History of the City of New York Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Mary Louise Booth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the City of New York, Vol. 2 The original of this and the other handbills quoted here are preserved in the library of the Historical Society. 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.

Download or read book The Story of Manhattan Classic Reprint written by Charles Hemstreet and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Manhattan Ere tbe bistory of New York City is H told as a story, in few words. Tbe cfirt bas been to mabe it accurate and interesting. Tbe illustrations are largely from. 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.

Download or read book The New York Stories of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 20 short stories and novellas offer an exquisite portrait of Old New York, spanning from the Civil War through the Gilded Age (New York Times). “Edith Wharton . . . remains one of the most potent names in the literature of New York.” —New York Times Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as rigid as it is precarious. What fascinates Wharton are the points of weakness in the structure of Old New York: the artists and writers at its fringes, the free-love advocates testing its limits, widows and divorcées struggling to hold their own. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city, written over the course of Wharton’s career. From her first published story, “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” to one of her last and most celebrated, “Roman Fever,” this new collection charts the growth of an American master and enriches our understanding of the central themes of her work, among them the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged. Illuminated by Roxana Robinson’s introduction, these stories showcase Wharton’s astonishing insight into the turbulent inner lives of the men and women caught up in a rapidly changing society.

Download or read book A Brief History of the City of New York Classic Reprint written by Charles B. Todd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Brief History of the City of New York But although it is intended for the young, the author hopes that his little book will appeal to the great mass of, citizens who have but little time for reading, and to whom the larger histories are sealed books. 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.

Download or read book History of the City of New York written by Mary Louise Booth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the City of New York: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time The preparation of this work was first suggested by the need of collecting the floating facts relative to the history and growth of our city, and condensing them into a compact form for the use of the general reader. In the short space of two hundred and fifty years, New York has sprung up, as it were, by magic, from a hamlet of four wretched huts, into the commercial metropolis of the western hemisphere. The many changes that have occurred during this time have been noted by lovers of their native city, who have made collections from time to time of facts and incidents invaluable to the historian yet these are scattered among numerous volumes, where few have time to seek and unearth them. Histories of the State also abound but there is not a single history of the city of New York from its earliest settlement to the present time. 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.

Download or read book History of the City of New York Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Mrs. Martha Joanna Lamb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the City of New York, Vol. 1 The earliest record of the existence of the American Continent is found among the literary legacies of the Icelanders of the tenth century, who were superior to the continental people of that age both in mental vigor and physical endurance. But their discoveries were the result of hap hazard adventure rather than scientific probabilities, and their efforts at colonization were signal failures. From their geographical works we find that they supposed these western lands to be a part of Europe; and, while the accounts of their expeditions were carefully preserved, not a line was committed to parchment until many centuries had passed, so that there is very little reason for presuming that succeeding generations were materially benefited by reason of them. 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.

Download or read book Historical Guide to the City of New York written by Frank Bergen Kelley and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Guide to the City of New York: From Original Observations and Contributions Made by Members and Friends of the City History Club of New York Thanks are due for special aid in securing information and for the use of material to: Frank Warren Crane, William T. Davis, Henry Russell Drowne, Charles Hemstreet, Thomas A. Janvier, Ira K. Morris, Josiah C. Pumpelly, Frederick Van Wyck and many other students of local history. Cartographers: August R. Ohman, Reginald Pelham Bolton. Draughtsmen: Morris W. Ehrlich, Charles Kandel. For permission to copy maps, thanks are due to: Edward Hagaman Hall, James H. Innes, A. Meserole, Harper Bros., W. W. Munsell, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Chas. Scribner's Sons and Henry Dunreath Tyler. Official Photographer: Frank F. Evans. Photographs have been contributed by Randall Comfort, C. Irving Jones and George W. Nash. Other illustrations have been used by courtesy of the Century History Company, G. P. Putnam's Sons, and the Long Island Historical Society. 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.

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Download or read book New York the Wonder City Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New York, the Wonder City Blackwell's Island Bridge. Over the East River from East 59th Street and 2nd Avenue. Man hattan. To Jane and Academy Streets. Oong lslaud City: great cantilever structure costing with approaches rests on six masonry piers: feet long. West span l.182 feet: clear height over channels ijs feet: height of Island towers 324 feet. Width 86 feet: two decks with 53 foot road..33 E 30525 acetone. On o do 3 on. 30: 2 a D 0 on: 2: 8 oq ed 33. ES 33 30> 3: o 5 no 5 5o ua=3om Co 350 2: E Q: So no.5 0380 neg 0 v3. 0 ov ear - 323 co 2 E 53335. To.. O Ea: 5 358 3. A we won: as? Owe. 5 i=3 Sue - o 05 m can zabeaoem o 05 5 v2.62 2 95300 2. 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."

Download or read book Municipal Government of the City of New York Classic Reprint written by Abby Gunn Baker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Municipal Government of the City of New York Primarily 1117111117720! Government of 1716 City ocw York was written for the purpose of enabling the pupils of the schools to know their own city. The introductory chapters give in story form the purchase of Manhattan Island and its growth under the Dutch and English governments. They also give the history of the city immediately following the Revolution. The chapters take up each administrative depart ment of the city government from its very beginning and tell, in detail, of its development and the manner in which it is managed at the present time. In order to bring the book up to date each department of the municipal government was most carefully studied under the immediate and helpful supervision of the Commissioner or some one delegated by him. After each chapter was written it was read critically by an official of the department treated. For this reason it can be stated without hesitation that the book is accurately brought up to date. As can readily be seen the authors are under the greatest obligation to the heads of the administrative departments and others connected with the municipal government, who gave such generous help and kindly advice while the book was being revised. 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.

Download or read book The City of New York Classic Reprint written by L. H. Nelson Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The City of New York Mulberry bend park, running from Bayard to Park Street, and from Mulberry to Baxter Street, contains two and three-quarters acres of well-kept lawn. Innumerable seats. A rest house and fountains are provided for the comfort and pleasure of the people. 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.