ROUTE CAR 4070 CHEVROLET DE A76936 His grandson , the American statesman Gouverneur Morris ( 1752-1816 ) , was to become one of the ardent opponents of slavery at the Constitutional Convention . He also tried to convince the gathering ...
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 ...
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 ...
The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.
Ranging from whimsical to heartbreaking, these stories have attracted a global following of more than 30 million people across several social media platforms.
Lonely Planet's Pocket New York City is your most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you.
To a degree, A People's Guide shares this perspective. We draw attention to many of these vanished sites and peoples, highlighting their ongoing importance to what the city and its people have become. Many of the stories related in this ...