Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot - Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Spady is the creator of the virtual walking tour AudubonParkNY.com and curator for AudubonParkPerspectives.org, a news site that reflects on the constant intersection of past and present in a vibrant and historic neighborhood. He was a leader in the decade-long community effort that culminated in the Audubon Park Historic District. Klappentext Audubon Park's journey from farm to cityscape Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction A Word About Names Chapter 1 Triumph and Tribulation on White Street Chapter 2 The Land Before It Was Minnie's Chapter 3 Arcadia Found . . . Chapter 4 . . . and Too Quickly Lost Chapter 5 Audubon Park Begins to Bloom Chapter 6 Fruit Basket Turnover Chapter 7 Audubon Park's New Power Brokers Chapter 8 The Hemlocks Chapter 9 Three Widows, Three Households Chapter 10 Reconstructing the Park Chapter 11 A Gilded Lily Chapter 12 Panic Chapter 13 Halcyon Days Chapter 14 Waning Days of Summer Chapter 15 Exit Strategy Chapter 16 Partition Suit Chapter 17 Clinging to the Past . . . Chapter 18 . . . and Facing the Future Chapter 19 Rapid Transit, Rapid Transformation Chapter 20 When the Bloom Faded Postscript Bibliography Acknowledgements

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Spady
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780823289424
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8942-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Biografien: allgemein, Amerikanische Geschichte, Bevölkerung und Demographie, USA Nordosten, Mid-Atlantic States, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban