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1. The East River (Images of America)
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The East River The Heart of New York Images of America SeriesDescription
The East River captures the history of New Yorks premier waterway. The river, a source of life for Native Americans, spawned communities from Brooklyn to Harlem. Its shipyards and docks projected American enterprise around the world. The waterfront, an industrial and commercial dynamo, forged a continent. The dreams of immigrants who arrived and lived on its banks created this nation. The rivers strong currents guarded prisons and hospital quarantines while keeping secret legends of gold on its bottom. The sinews of a great city are knitted by more than a score of its tunnels and bridges. Today, a renaissance draws people to this river, the heart of New York.2. Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (The History of NYC Series)
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In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national to global prominence -- an urban dynamo driven by restless ambition, boundless energy, immigrant dreams, and Wall Street greed.Within the first two decades of the twentieth century, a newly consolidated New York grew exponentially. The city exploded into the air, with skyscrapers jostling for prominence, and dove deep into the bedrock where massive underground networks of subways, water pipes, and electrical conduits sprawled beneath the city to serve a surging population of New Yorkers from all walks of life. New York was transformed in these two decades as the world's second-largest city and now its financial capital, thriving and sustained by the city's seemingly unlimited potential.
Wallace's new book matches its predecessor in pure page-turning appeal and takes America's greatest city to new heights.
3. Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York
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Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US HistoryA fascinating, encyclopedic historyof greater New York City through an ecological lens (Publishers Weekly, starred review)the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.
Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nations population. Ted Steinberg brings a vanished New York back to vivid, rich life. You will see the metropolitan area anew, not just as a dense urban goliath but as an estuary once home to miles of oyster reefs, wolves, whales, and blueberry bogs. That world gave way to an onslaught managed by thousands, from Governor John Montgomerie, who turned water into land, and John Randel, who imposed a grid on Manhattan, to Robert Moses, Charles Urstadt, Donald Trump, and Michael Bloomberg.
Weighty and wonderfulResting on a sturdy foundation of research and imagination, Steinbergs volume begins with Henry Hudsons arrival aboard the Half Moon in 1609 and ends with another transformative eventHurricane Sandy in 2012 (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland). This book is a powerful account of the relentless development that New Yorkers wrought as they plunged headfirst into the floodplain and transformed untold amounts of salt marsh and shellfish beds into a land jam-packed with people, asphalt, and steel, and the reeds and gulls that thrive among them.
With metropolitan areas across the globe on a collision course with rising seas, Gotham Unbound helps explain how one of the most important cities in the world has ended up in such a perilous situation. Steinberg challenges the conventional arguments that geography is destiny.And he makes the strong case that for all the ecological advantages of urban living, hyperdensity by itself is not necessarily a sound environmental strategy (The New York Times).
4. Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York by Ted Steinberg (2014-06-03)
5. Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York by Steinberg, Ted (July 21, 2015) Paperback
6. Greater New Jersey: Living in the Shadow of Gotham (Metropolitan Portraits)
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Living within the influence of one of the largest and most important cities in the world, how does New Jersey define itself? Is it simply a region of commuters, or have communities created effective local governments and satisfying cultural activities for one of the most diverse populations in the country?
In the state with the country's densest population, the region known as North Jersey has sacrificed more than 30 percent of its land area to the vast web of roads and highways that carry more than 300,000 commuters to work in New York. Greater New Jersey probes challenges posed to the identity of New Jersey by the New York-centered mass media, professional sports, and organized crime families, while examining pressures internal to the state itself, including extraordinary social diversity, high population, fragmented governments, extensive political corruption, and diminishing land and natural resources.
Greater New Jersey sets itself apart from other works about the state by virtue of the scope of its inquiry. While contemporary in outlook, the book underscores the role of history in shedding light on the Manhattan and New Jersey of today. Dennis E. Gale examines the complex interactions that knit together a region that has dual citizenship and argues that northern New Jersey is undergoing a gradual transformation to become symbolic of a new kind of suburban area, one that borrows culture, image, and economy from a metropolis but also maintains the day-to-day living patterns of heartland America in the face of rapid social change. Readers interested in the puzzling intricacies of modern life will find much to interest them in this account of a regional identity asserting itself in the face of a looming megalopolis.
7. Pepys's ghost: his wanderings in Greater Gotham, his adventures in the Spanish war, together with his minor exploits in the field of love and fashion, ... and here set down, with many annotations
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This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. It was produced from digital images created through the libraries mass digitization efforts. The digital images were cleaned and prepared for printing through automated processes. Despite the cleaning process, occasional flaws may still be present that were part of the original work itself, or introduced during digitization. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library at www.hathitrust.org.8. Gotham's Greater Rotten Row: Peter B. Sweeny's Project for a Splendid Public Pleasure Ground for Lovers of the Horse and the Horse Himself; A Grand Terrace on the West Side (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Gotham's Greater Rotten Row: Peter B. Sweeny's Project for a Splendid Public Pleasure Ground for Lovers of the Horse and the Horse Himself; A Grand Terrace on the West SideDriving is steadily on the increase in the metropolis, and horseback riding is rapidly growing in popularity. Existing driveways do not satisfy the public wants, While the bridle paths in Central Park are wholly inadequate to the growing demands made upon them.
That more public facilities of this kind are needed is obvious. This fact Will lend a timely interest to the project outlined in the Herald this morning.
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9. Pepys's Ghost: His Wanderings in Greater Gotham, His Adventures in the Spanish War, Together With His Minor Exploits in the Field of Love and Fashion ... Down, With Many Annotations (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Pepys's Ghost: His Wanderings in Greater Gotham, His Adventures in the Spanish War, Together With His Minor Exploits in the Field of Love and Fashion With His Thoughts Theron; Now Re-Cyphered and Here Set Down, With Many AnnotationsIn those days the most fashionable public ball-rooms of New York, later removed to a new site on Fifth Avenue, in consequence, so it was asserted, of the scan dal occasioned by a certain bachelors' banquet.
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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.
10. Pepys's Ghost: His Wanderings in Greater Gotham ; His Adventures in the Spanish War ; Together With His Minor Exploits in the Field of Love and Fashion ; With His Thoughts Thereon
