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| Author | : Andrew Blauner |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2012-04-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1608197425 |
Central Park is perhaps the most well-trod and familiar green space in the county. It is both a refuge from the city and Manhattan's very heart; a respite from the urban grind and a hive of activity all its own. 843 carefully planned acres allow some 37 million visitors each year to come and get lost in a sense of nature. Unsurprisingly, the park also inspires a wealth of great writing, and here Andrew Blauner collects some of the finest fiction and nonfiction-- 20 pieces in all, with classics sprinkled among 13 new ones commissioned from great New York writers. Bill Buford spends a wild night in the park; Jonathan Safran Foer envisions it as a tiny, transplanted piece of a mythical Sixth Borough; and Marie Winn answers definitively Holden Caulfield's question of where the ducks go when the park's ponds freeze over. There are bird sightings and fish sightings; Jackie Kennedy and James Brown sightings; and pieces by Colson Whitehead, Paul Auster, and Francine Prose. This vibrant collection presents Central Park, in all its many-faceted glory, a 51-block swath of special magic.
| Author | : Morrison H. Heckscher |
| Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Total Pages | : 77 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Central Park (New York, N.Y.) |
| ISBN | : 0300136692 |
The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the design of Central Park, the first and arguably the most famous of America’s urban landscape parks. In October 1857 the new park’s board of commissioners announced a public design competition, and the following April the imaginative yet practicable "Greensward” plan submitted by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted was selected. This book tells the fascinating story of how an extraordinary work of public art emerged from the crucible of New York City politics. From William Cullen Bryant’s 1844 editorial calling for "a pleasure ground of shade and recreation” to the completion of construction in 1870, the history of Central Park is an urban epic--a tale not only of animosity, political intrigue, and desire but also of idealism, sacrifice, and genius.
| Author | : Guillaume Musso |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2021-03-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0316590940 |
From the #1 international bestselling author: a woman wakes up on a Central Park bench with no memory of how she got there in this “unpredictable and moving psychological thriller that keeps you holding your breath” (Métro) Alice, a fierce and respected Parisian cop, wakes up on a Central Park bench with no memory of the night before, handcuffed to a complete stranger—a musician named Gabriel. Disoriented, dazed, and with someone else’s blood on her shirt, Alice works furiously to reconnect the dots. She remembers clubbing with her friends the night before on the Champs-Élysées. Gabriel claims he was playing a gig in Dublin. Was she drugged? Kidnapped? Why is the gun in her jacket pocket missing a bullet? And whose blood is on her clothes? Over the next twenty-four hours, Alice and Gabriel race across New York in search of answers, stumbling upon a startling set of clues that point to a terrible adversary from the past. Alice must finally confront her memories of hunting the serial killer who took everything from her—a man she thought was dead, until now. From France's #1 bestselling author, Central Park is a taut and suspenseful thriller that will keep readers riveted until its final shocking twist.
| Author | : Trisha Meili |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2003-04-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0743256077 |
A timeless, “triumphant” (Entertainment Weekly) story of healing and recovery from the victim of a crime that shocked the nation: the Central Park Jogger. Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on April 19, 1989, a young woman jogs alone near 102nd Street in New York City's Central Park. She is attacked, raped, savagely beaten, and left for dead. Hours later she arrives at the emergency room—comatose—she has lost so much blood that her doctors believe it’s a miracle she's still alive. Meet Trisha Meili, the Central Park Jogger. I Am the Central Park Jogger recounts the mesmerizing, inspiring, often wrenching story of human strength and transcendent recovery. Called “Hero of the Month” by Glamour magazine, Meili tells us who she was before the attack—a young Wall Street professional with a promising future—and who she has become: a woman who learned how to read, write, walk, talk, and love again...and turn horrifying violence and certain death into extraordinary healing and victorious life. With “moments of unexpected grace and insights into life’s challenges….Meili’s story—the story the public never knew—is unforgettable” (The Buffalo News).
| Author | : Owl Willows |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2018-09-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0359115195 |
It's the early nineties, and Elizabeth is homeless in New York City. She sleeps in hostels when she can while barely surviving. Writing her novel keeps her going, and when it is published her life changes forever. Along with Brit punk friend Sarah, she starts a writer's group for other indie authors. It is in that group that she meets River, a New Age hippie in whom she finds true love and a kindred spirit. The couple face both joy and tragedy in the city that never sleeps before moving to a cottage in Mystic, Connecticut to begin a new life together and to open a used bookstore. It is behind the bookcase in their cottage that they discover a castle and the wizard who lives there. Zeferaus is a kind but grumbly wizard who loves to drink tea. He befriends River and Elizabeth, and takes them into the world of Wysteria, a land of calming rain and willows. In return for their friendship and a place within Wysteria to live, Zeferaus asks for their aid in a very important matter.
| Author | : Edward J. Levine |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2008-02-18 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1439619913 |
Since it opened in 1858, Central Park has been one of New York's most-photographed landmarks. However, while some of the park remains as it was then, much of the park's landscape has changed over the years. Through historic images and contemporary photographs by Denise Stavis Levine, Central Park provides a previously unseen glimpse of the park's hidden history and brings it up to date.
| Author | : Sarah Burns |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2012-04-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0307387984 |
A spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case that powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath. • A must-read after watching Ava DuVernay's When They See Us On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the "Central Park jogger" crumpled in a ravine. She'd been raped and severely beaten. Within days five black and Latino teenagers were apprehended, all five confessing to the crime. The staggering torrent of media coverage that ensued, coupled with fierce public outcry, exposed the deep-seated race and class divisions in New York City at the time. The minors were tried and convicted as adults despite no evidence linking them to the victim. Over a decade later, when DNA tests connected serial rapist Matias Reyes to the crime, the government, law enforcement, social institutions and media of New York were exposed as having undermined the individuals they were designed to protect. Here, Sarah Burns recounts this historic case for the first time since the young men's convictions were overturned, telling, at last, the full story of one of New York’s most legendary crimes.
| Author | : Roy Rosenzweig |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 642 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780801497513 |
Delineate the politicians, business people, artists, immigrant laborers, and city dwellers who are the key players in the tale. In tracing the park's history, the writers also give us the history of New York. They explain how squabbles over politics, taxes, and real estate development shaped the park and describe the acrimonious debates over what a public park should look like, what facilities it should offer, and how it should accommodate the often incompatible.
| Author | : Elizabeth Barlow Rogers |
| Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 1987-01 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780262181273 |
Illustrated throughout with 2-color and tinted maps and drawings and numerous photographs, Rebuilding Central Park is the first close examination of these invaluable 843 acres in more than a century.
| Author | : Elizabeth Barlow Rogers |
| Publisher | : Knopf |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2018-05-15 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1524733555 |
The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers opens with a quick survey of her early life--a middle-class upbringing in Texas; college at Wellesley, marriage, a master's degree in city planning at Yale. And then her move to New York, where she starts a family and, when she finds being a mother and a housewife is not enough, pours herself into the protection and enhancement of the city's green spaces. Interwoven into her own story is a comprehensive history of Central Park: its design and construction as a scenic masterpiece; the alterations of each succeeding era; the addition of numerous facilities for sports and play; and finally, the "anything goes" phase of the 1960s and 70s, which was often fun but nearly destroyed the park. The two narratives continue to entwine as she finds a job in the administration of Central Park, founds the Central Park Conservancy, and transforms both the park and herself--a transformation that has led to the writing of her many books, to travels that have taken her to parks and gardens around the world, and to solidifying the prestige of one of New York's most conspicuous landmarks.
