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The City, Revealed.(three books about New York, New York history)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
"What news from New York?" F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in an imaginary conversation in "My Lost City," a 1936 essay. " 'Stocks go up. A baby murdered a gangster.' 'Nothing more?' " The city, in all its confounding glory, is the subject of Kenneth T. Jackson and David S. Dunbar's anthology, EMPIRE CITY (Columbia), which begins with an account of Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage, includes Frederick Law Olmsted's original plan for Central Park, and recounts such forgotten chapters as the 1909 strike of twenty thousand female garment workers.
The influx of immigrants to the city changed everything. THE HISTORIC SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS OF NEW YORK (Little Bookroom), a guide by Ellen Williams and Steve Radlauer, looks at business brainstorms from a century ago. At the end of ...
- Empire City: New York through the Centuries.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Blumberg, Barbara September 22, 2004 700+ words
Empire City: New York through the Centuries...example, one is that New York City has never been...purpose" (948). Empire City is rich in depictions...minor complaints. Empire City is a treat for anyone...is interested in New York. Pace ...
- The Empire City: New York and Its People, 1624-1996.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Page, Max March 22, 1999 700+ words
The Empire City: New York and Its People, 1624...of a brief history of New York City. The past two decades...to be patient, as The Empire City is not the book for which...four hundred years of New York City history, from Henry...
- Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Blumberg, Barbara January 1, 2004 700+ words
Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape. By David M. Scobey. (Philadelphia: Temple...and southern Westchester, and their environs (4,2). Empire City describes this growth and reconstruction between the 1840s...
- Scobey, David M. Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City...
- History: Review of New Books Henderson, A. Scott March 22, 2004 700+ words
Scobey, David M. Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape Philadelphia: Temple University...expansion during the Victorian era. Scobey divides Empire City into two parts. The first focuses on the physical...
- Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape. (Now Read...
- Magazine article from: City Limits December 1, 2002 700+ words
By David M. Scobey Temple University Press, $40 This dense and detailed book argues that the creation of an established real estate market beginning in the 1850s and into the 1880s--not the technological and transportation improvements of the late nineteenth century, as many believe- deserve the
- (Art and The Empire City).(Arts and Entertainment)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek September 4, 2000 700+ words
Three hundred works of art at New York's Metropolitan Museum show how Gotham...Sensation" phenomenon gets his first New York show in four years at the Gagosian Gallery...livelier installation artists will turn New York's Frederieke Taylor gallery into a mock...
- Elegy for lost seafaring empire; CITY COMMENT.
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) February 14, 2006 700+ words
...combined company would have an astonishing $1,000bn of investment funds under its control. The activities of the former New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer, the scourge who played a big role in exposing conflicts of interest within the big investment...
- New York
- Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities January 1, 2000 700+ words
...operates flights to and from New York, as do most international...Airport in New Jersey. New York Population Profile City...The Big Apple; The Empire City Metropolitan Area Population...626,000 Description: New York City and surrounding communities...
