Manhattan '45

Author: Jan Morris
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801859571
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
She tours the tenements of Hell's Kitchen and the Gashouse district, as well as the Foundling Hospital, where the crushing realities of poverty belie the unchallenged exuberance of the age. Taking into account both Social Register and slum, Manhattan '45 celebrates New York's Golden Age as a time when, for one unrepeatable moment in history, anything seemed possible.

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan

Author: Michael Sorkin
Publisher: North Point Press
ISBN: 0865477582
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn't in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, he explains what he sees, what he imagines, what he knows—giving us extraordinary access to the layers of history, the feats of engineering and artistry, and the intense social drama that take place along a simple twenty-minute walk.

Manhattan 45

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788416529285
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 272

Book Description

Supreme City

Author: Donald L. Miller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416550208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 784

Book Description
An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment --

Manhattan Unfurled

Author: Matteo Pericoli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 8

Book Description

New York Recentered

Author: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022661316X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
The history of New York City’s urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park. New York Recentered boldly shifts the focus to the city’s geographic edges—the coastlines and waterways—and to the small-time unelected locals who quietly shaped the modern city. Kara Murphy Schlichting details how the vernacular planning done by small businessmen and real estate operators, performed independently of large scale governmental efforts, refigured marginal locales like Flushing Meadows and the shores of Long Island Sound and the East River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.

The Art of Walking Manhattan Sideways

Author: Betsy Bober Polivy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578947600
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Betsy Bober Polivy has been celebrating the side street businesses since 2011 when she began her journey across the original Manhattan grid - from 1st Street to 155th. Her first book, Walking Manhattan Sideways, was published during the pandemic in 2020. It shined a light on places that she discovered over her six years of criss-crossing the city from the East River to the Hudson.The flood of gratitude and appreciation for this book inspired her to begin working on another. There was no question that there was plenty more to showcase, but the true impetus was to highlight the hidden not-for-profits that she had happened upon as well as pay tribute to the arts on the side streets. This new title celebrates dance, museums, music and theater, while also drawing attention to many more scrumptious restaurants, splendid neighborhood bars, and one-of-a-kind shops.

Countdown 1945

Author: Chris Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982143355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
A "behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the Americans attack on Hiroshima"--Dust jacket flap.

5 lb. Book of GRE Practice Problems

Author: Manhattan Prep
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1941234526
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 1484

Book Description
Manhattan Prep’s 5 lb. Book of GRE Practice Problems is an essential resource for students of any level who are preparing for the GRE revised General Exam. Recently updated to more closely reflect the nuances of the GRE exam, this book offers more than 1,800 questions across 33 chapters and online to provide students with comprehensive practice. Developed by our expert instructors, the problems in this book are sensibly grouped into practice sets and mirror those found on the GRE in content, form, and style. Students can build fundamental skills in math and verbal through targeted practice while easy-to-follow explanations and step-by-step applications help cement their understanding of the concepts tested on the GRE. In addition, students can take their practice to the next level with online question banks that provide realistic, computer-based practice to better simulate the GRE test-taking experience. Purchase of this book includes access to an online video introduction, online banks of GRE practice problems, and the GRE Challenge Problem Archive.

Manhattan

Author: Jennifer Thermes
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683356209
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Told in dazzling maps and informative sidebars, Manhattan explores the 400+ year history of Manhattan Island. From before its earliest settlement to the vibrant metropolis that exists today, the island of Manhattan has always been a place of struggle, growth, and radical transformation. Humans, history, and natural events have shaped this tiny sliver of land for more than 400 years. In Manhattan, travel back in time to discover how a small rodent began an era of rapid change for the island. Learn about immigration, the slave trade, and the people who built New York City. See how a street plan projected the city’s future, and how epic fires and storms led to major feats of engineering above and below ground. Through dramatic illustrations, informative sidebars, and detailed maps inspired by historic archives, Manhattan explores the rich history that still draws people from all around the world to the island’s shores today. From The Battery downtown up to Inwood, every inch of the island has a story to tell.