Taming Manhattan

Taming Manhattan
Author: Catherine McNeur
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-11-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0674725093
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George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History VSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America Hornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society Library James Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic With pigs roaming the streets and cows foraging in the Battery, antebellum Manhattan would have been unrecognizable to inhabitants of today’s sprawling metropolis. Fruits and vegetables came from small market gardens in the city, and manure piled high on streets and docks was gold to nearby farmers. But as Catherine McNeur reveals in this environmental history of Gotham, a battle to control the boundaries between city and country was already being waged, and the winners would take dramatic steps to outlaw New York’s wild side. “[A] fine book which make[s] a real contribution to urban biography.” —Joseph Rykwert, Times Literary Supplement “Tells an odd story in lively prose...The city McNeur depicts in Taming Manhattan is the pestiferous obverse of the belle epoque city of Henry James and Edith Wharton that sits comfortably in many imaginations...[Taming Manhattan] is a smart book that engages in the old fashioned business of trying to harvest lessons for the present from the past.” —Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times

New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.

New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Author: New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1134
Release: 1941
Genre: Law
ISBN:
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Volume contains: need index past index 6 (Douglass v. City of N.Y.) need index past index 6 (Douglass v. City of N.Y.) need index past index 6 (Douglass v. City of N.Y.) need index past index 6 (Downing v. Brunswick Realty Co.) need index past index 6 (Downing v. Brunswick Realty Co.) need index past index 6 (Downing v. Brunswick Realty Co.) need index past index 6 (Matter of Ebling Brewing Co. v. Bruckman) need index past index 6 (Matter of Ebling Brewing Co. v. Bruckman) need index past index 6 (Matter of Ebling Brewing Co. v. Bruckman) need index past index 6 (Matter of Ebling Brewing Co. v. Bruckman) need index past index 6 (Matter of Ebling Brewing Co. v. Bruckman) need index past index 6 (Finney v. Title Guarantee & Trust Co.) need index past index 6 (Finney v. Title Guarantee & Trust Co.) need index past index 6 (Finney v. Title Guarantee & Trust Co.) need index past index 6 (Fleischl v. Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co.) need index past index 6 (Fleischl v. Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co.) need index past index 6 (Fleischl v. Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co.) need index past index 6 (Follins v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co.) need index past index 6 (Follins v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co.) need index past index 6 (Follins v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co.) need index past index 6 (440 East 17th Street Corp. v. City of N.Y.) need index past index 6 (440 East 17th Street Corp. v. City of N.Y.) need index past index 6 (440 East 17th Street Corp. v. City of N.Y.)