Windows on the Bowery
Author | : Bowery Alliance of Neighbors |
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Release | : 2020-10-15 |
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ISBN | : 9781792352447 |
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Author | : Bowery Alliance of Neighbors |
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Release | : 2020-10-15 |
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ISBN | : 9781792352447 |
Author | : Mike Wallace |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1195 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195116356 |
Volume two of the world famous trilogy on the history of New York
Author | : Lonely Christopher |
Publisher | : Akashic Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1936070804 |
Two boys lie on a bed, one of them is already dead; they listen to Glenn Gould playing Bach and talk about suicide and love. A lonely narrator mourns the end of a relationship and the disappearance of a mysterious object as a frustrated artist jumps out of a moving car on his birthday and runs for the last street lamp in the universe. The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, a radical map of shortcomings in daily experiences in the form of a debut story collection, presents thematically related windows into serious emotional trouble and monstrous love.
Author | : Alice Sparberg Alexiou |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2024-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1531507271 |
Devil’s Mile tells the rip-roaring story of New York’s oldest and most unique street The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th century. The very name evoked visuals of drunken bums passed out on the sidewalk, and New Yorkers nicknamed it “Satan’s Highway,” “The Mile of Hell,” and “The Street of Forgotten Men.” For years the little businesses along the Bowery—stationers, dry goods sellers, jewelers, hatters—periodically asked the city to change the street’s name. To have a Bowery address, they claimed, was hurting them; people did not want to venture there. But when New York exploded into real estate frenzy in the 1990s, developers discovered the Bowery. They rushed in and began tearing down. Today, Whole Foods, hipster night spots, and expensive lofts have replaced the old flophouses and dive bars, and the bad old Bowery no longer exists. In Devil’s Mile, Alice Sparberg Alexiou tells the story of the Bowery, starting with its origins, when forests covered the surrounding area, and through the pre–Civil War years, when country estates of wealthy New Yorkers lined this thoroughfare. She then describes the Bowery’s deterioration in stunning detail, starting in the post-bellum years. She ends her historical exploration of this famed street in the present, bearing witness as the old Bowery buildings, and the memories associated with them, are disappearing.
Author | : Greg Young |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612435769 |
Uncover fascinating, little-known histories of the five boroughs in The Bowery Boys’ official companion to their popular, award-winning podcast. It was 2007. Sitting at a kitchen table and speaking into an old karaoke microphone, Greg Young and Tom Meyers recorded their first podcast. They weren’t history professors or voice actors. They were just two guys living in the Bowery and possessing an unquenchable thirst for the fascinating stories from New York City’s past. Nearly 200 episodes later, The Bowery Boys podcast is a phenomenon, thrilling audiences each month with one amazing story after the next. Now, in their first-ever book, the duo gives you an exclusive personal tour through New York’s old cobblestone streets and gas-lit back alleyways. In their uniquely approachable style, the authors bring to life everything from makeshift forts of the early Dutch years to the opulent mansions of The Gilded Age. They weave tales that will reshape your view of famous sites like Times Square, Grand Central Terminal, and the High Line. Then they go even further to reveal notorious dens of vice, scandalous Jazz Age crime scenes, and park statues with strange pasts. Praise for The Bowery Boys “Among the best city-centric series.” —New York Times “Meyers and Young have become unofficial ambassadors of New York history.” —NPR “Breezy and informative, crowded with the finest grifters, knickerbockers, spiritualists, and city builders to stalk these streets since back when New Amsterdam was just some farms.” —Village Voice “Young and Meyers have an all-consuming curiosity to work out what happened in their city in years past, including the Newsboys Strike of 1899, the history of the Staten Island Ferry, and the real-life sites on which Martin Scorsese’s Vinyl is based.” —The Guardian
Author | : St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.) |
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
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Author | : William Nelson Taft |
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Show-windows |
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