From walking around Manhattan to hot-air balloon flights over the Adirondacks, this family-oriented guide helps readers find many New York-based activities to do with kids. Developed with families in mind, Fun with the Family books are guides to family fun and adventure. Written by parents for parents, these state-specific guides include hundreds of ideas for families with kids from ages two to 12. Features at-a-glance icons, reader-friendly sidebars and comprehensive end-of-chapter listings of family-friendly places to stay and eat.
New York is a city whose DNA comes from all over the world, a fantastic and unique place belonging to America yet not completely American.
By 1978, Disco was for Studio 54 and Xenon; Punk and New Wave were south of 14th, and Hip Hop competed with the horns and timbales of Latin Fania for Sound of the Streets. Most of those streets, though, were empty.
In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York.
In A Queer New York, Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping the political, economic, and geographic dispossession of an important, thriving community that once called certain New York neighborhoods ...
Policymaking from Koch to de Blasio Thomas J. Main. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 For an account of the welfare ... Wallace S. Sayre and Herbert Kaufman, Governing New York City (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1960), p.
A History of People, Protest, and Politics Steven H. Jaffe. 1 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (left) and Susan B. Anthony 1866–71 Sarony & Co., carte-de-visite albumen print 2 Harriot Stanton Blatch (left) and Rose Schneiderman 1910–11 Unknown ...
This book is a travel guide of sorts to New York's local legends and best kept secrets, filled with crazy characters, cursed roads, abandoned sites, and bizarre roadside attractions that the author feels reflect the shared modern folklore ...
New York is the book that Rutherfurd's fans have been waiting for. From the Hardcover edition.
Ranging from whimsical to heartbreaking, these stories have attracted a global following of more than 30 million people across several social media platforms.
The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.