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Author | : Daniel M. Hendrick |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2006-10-23 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 143961802X |
For more than two centuries after the Dutch settled its meandering shores, Jamaica Bay was little more than a watery expanse broken by small islands and a handful of mills. Rapid growth after the Civil War transformed the bay into a microcosm of a developing nation, as meadows gave way to houses and factories, and giant steamers and locomotives appeared. Plans to create the world's largest deepwater port here were never realized, yet Jamaica Bay did emerge as a hub for aviation; the first successful transatlantic flight departed over the bayfollowed by millions of flights that have taken off from John F. Kennedy International Airport ever since. Through historic photographs, Jamaica Bay illustrates the bay's transformation into a shellfishing haven, a recreational playground with hotels and casinos, and now the focus of a longterm environmental rehabilitation.
Author | : Daphne du Maurier |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780316575225 |
From the author of Rebecca and The Birds: a classic thriller of shipwreck and murder, "rich in suspense and surprise" (New York Times Book Review). On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls -- and tempted to love a man she dares not trust. The inspiration for the 1939 Alfred Hitchcock film.
Author | : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 934 |
Release | : 1916 |
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Author | : Alexander Brash |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2011-09-28 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781568989556 |
Gateway National Recreation Area is one of the most diverse and underused parks in the national park system. Spreading across the coastline of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey, it includes wildlife estuaries, bird-nesting areas, salt marshes, historic military forts, beaches, and NYC's first municipal airport, to name just a few of its exceptional features. It also contains sewage treatment plants, sewer outfalls, landfills, and acres upon acres of "black mayonnaise." Due to neglect and misuse, this extraordinary natural and national resource is at risk. Ninety percent of the salt marshes in Jamaica Bay one of the most biologically productive habitats in the region will have disappeared by 2011. This book presents the collaborative efforts of the Van Alen Institute, the National Parks Conservation Association, and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation to investigate and document the diverse ecology of the park and re-envision a more sustainable future for it.
Author | : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : New York (State). Conservation Dept |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : New York (State) |
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Author | : Eric W. Sanderson |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016-11-17 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1610917332 |
Given the realities of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban social-ecological system and working to sustain those states in an uncertain and tumultuous future. How do physical conditions, ecological processes, social objectives, human politics, and history shape the prospects for resilience? Most books set out "the answer." This book sets out a process of grappling with holistic resilience from multiple perspectives, drawing on the insights and experiences of more than fifty scholars and practitioners working together to make Jamaica Bay in New York City an example for the world. Ranging from a framework for understanding resilience practice in urban watersheds to essential tools for research and practice, Prospects for Resilience is filled with information and advice for scientists, urban planners, students, and others who are working to create more resilient cities that work with, not against, nature.
Author | : Carol Zoref |
Publisher | : New Issues Poetry & Prose |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2017-10-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1936970562 |
How does one remember a world that literally no longer exists? How do the moral imperatives to do so correspond to the personal needs that make it possible? Told from the point-of-view of Marta Eisenstein Lane on the occasion of her 80th birthday, Barren Island is the story of a factory island in New York's Jamaica Bay, where the city's dead horses and other large animals were rendered into glue and fertilizer from the mid-19th century until the 1930's. The island itself is as central to the story as the members of the Jewish, Greek, Italian, Irish, and African-American factory families that inhabit it, including those who live their entire lives steeped in the smell of burning animal flesh. The story begins with the arrival of the Eisenstein family, immigrants from Eastern Europe, and explores how the political and social upheavals of the 1930's affect them and their neighbors in the years between the stock market crash of October 1929 and the start of World War II ten years later. Labor strife, union riots, the New Deal, the World's Fair, and the struggle to save European Jews from the growing threat of Nazi terror inform this novel as much as the explosion of civil and social liberties between the two World Wars. Barren Island, finally, is a novel in which the existence of God is argued with a God that may no longer exist or, perhaps, never did.
Author | : New York (N.Y.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y |
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Author | : Gad Heuman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Jamaica |
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Over de achtergronden en nasleep van de "Morant bay rebellion" , een opstand die uitbrak op 11 oktober 1865 in Jamaica.