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| Author | : Patricia Smith |
| Publisher | : Akashic Books |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2012-11-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1617751294 |
Presents a collection of short stories featuring noir and crime fiction about Staten Island, New York, by such authors as Todd Craig, Linda Nieves-Powell, S. J. Rozan, and Patricia Smith.
| Author | : Arthur Nersesian |
| Publisher | : Akashic Books |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2007-10-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1936070529 |
“Nersesian’s extravagantly imagined dystopia relies—as did those in Philip Roth’s Plot Against America and Michael Chabon’s Yiddish Policemen’s Union—on an alternate, counterfactual history.”—The New York Times Book Review “Combining sci-fi space/time-warping, Unabomber-style political ranting and an overall air of goose-bump paranoia, this is one turbo-charged trip. . . . A sharp, strange read: Imagine William Burroughs and Philip K. Dick sharing a needle.”—Kirkus Reviews “Brilliant.”—Time Out New York Arthur Nersesian’s six previous novels (including The Fuck-Up, MTV/Pocket Books, which has sold over 100,000 copies) have focused on the tragicomedy of fin de siècle New York City. Here, in his boldest novel to date, Nersesian has broken through into a new landscape that at once fuses the real with the surreal, the psychological with the psychedelic. He lives in New York City.
| Author | : Daniel C. Kramer |
| Publisher | : University Press of America |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0761858318 |
This book chronicles how the "forgotten borough" has grappled with its uneasy relationship with the rest of the City of New York since the 1920s. The authors analyze the politics behind events that have shaped Staten Island.
| Author | : Dorothy Valentine Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Claire Jimenez |
| Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2019-12-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1421434156 |
A fresh, compelling collection of stories by a serious new voice on the literary scene. Winner of the Hornblower Award by the New York Society Library, Honorable Mention for the International Latino Book Awards: Best Collection of Short Stories by Empowering Latino Futures New York City's Staten Island is often described as the forgotten borough. But with Staten Island Stories, Claire Jimenez shines a spotlight on the imagined lives of the islanders. Inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, this collection of loosely linked tragicomic short stories travels across time to explore defining moments in the island's history, from the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash and the New York City blackout to the growing opioid and heroin crisis, Eric Garner's murder, and the 2016 presidential election.
| Author | : Paul Moakley |
| Publisher | : Damiani Limited |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 9788862084482 |
Taken in the "forgotten borough" of Staten Island between 1983 and 1984, the photographs in Christine Osinski's (born 1948) Summer Days Staten Islandcreate a portrait of working-class culture in an often overlooked section of New York City. Captured on Osinski's large format 4x5 camera as she wandered the island, her candid portraits of strangers, vernacular architecture and quotidian scenes reveal an invisible landscape within reach of the thriving metropolis of Manhattan. The neighborhoods that Osinski captured are devoid of the skyscrapers, swarms of pedestrians and choking masses of traffic that are a short ferry ride away. Instead, she captures kids riding bikes on open, empty streets, suburban homes with neatly tended yards and the small-town feel of New York's least populous borough. Accompanying the series of images is an essay by Paul Moakley, Timemagazine's Deputy Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise.
| Author | : Bruce Kershner |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Natural areas |
| ISBN | : 9780787248918 |
| Author | : John Louis Sublett |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2009-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781440443503 |
Were there really four airports here? Was the Staten Island Airport shut down each night to ensure no peril to the patrons of the drive-in theater? Is there truly a 150 foot dormant tunnel under the harbor between Staten Island and Brooklyn with the entrance capped in Brooklyn? In the 1930's, Which of Staten Island's best known restaurateurs, bought a house across the street from his famous restaurant and built a 200-foot tunnel between the house and the restaurant so that he could safely carry the day's receipts from the restaurant to his home. Did President John Kennedy, sip coffee at the St. George ferry terminal? Can you believe that a famous Island milk company resorted to rowboats to delivery milk to areas from Oakwood to Midland Beach during some of the worst storms to every hit that area? Did Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley have a Wild West show in 1886 down at Erastina (Mariners Harbor)? In what year was a bomb actually exploded on a Staten Island Ferry?
| Author | : Lynda Lee Macken |
| Publisher | : Black Cat Press (NJ) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Ghosts |
| ISBN | : 9780970071804 |
| Author | : Thomas W. Matteo |
| Publisher | : Red Wheel/Weiser |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738544953 |
From the moment Giovanni da Verrazzano first spied it in 1524, Staten Island has been recognized as a verdant oasis at the mouth of one of the world’s most breathtaking natural harbors. Since that time, Staten Island has evolved from a hunting ground and farming community to one of suburban homes and small businesses. People have been drawn to the island’s bucolic surroundings to escape the urban sprawl consuming so much of the city. From lush valleys to commanding heights, Staten Island has provided inspiration for writers like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as providing opportunities for entrepreneurs like Cornelius Vanderbilt, Donald Trump, Charles Goodyear, and Daniel Tompkins. The area afforded sanctuary to people like Giuseppe Garibaldi, Don Antonio de Santa Anna, Maxim Gorky, Xhevdet Mustafa, and Gustave von Struve to escape persecution. Staten Island chronicles more than 400 years of the island’s transformation, illustrating the dramatic changes that have taken place in the fastest growing county in New York State.
