Author: The Museum of the City of New York
Publisher: Running Press
Keywords: city, york, new, museum, images, america, visual, history, greatest
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0762436492
ISBN-13: 9780762436491

The year 2009 is a landmark in the history of New York, and America. It’s the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival along the river that bears his name. With public initiatives and media attention on commemorative events and exhibits at a fever pitch throughout the year, the stage is set for New York 400, a one-of-a-kind celebration of the greatest city in America.With unprecedented access to the Museum of the City of New York’s vast archive, this is a visual history of the city of New York like none other, focusing not merely on landmarks but also on everyday life in the city over

Author: New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: landmarks, city, york, new, guide
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-10-13
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0471369004
ISBN-13: 9780471369004

Five boroughs rich with history-and one guide to it all The official and only complete guide to New York City’s landmarks, this beautiful Third Edition has been updated to include 128 new individual sites and sixteen new historic districts. Mayor Michael Bloomberg opens this treasure trove of historical discovery with an elegant Foreword. What follows are insightful descriptions of more than 1,000 individual landmarks and 84 historic districts. Everyone will feel like a native New Yorker when they quickly point out landmarks with the help of 80 easy-to-read maps. This new edition also

Author: J. Lemke Professor City University of New York B
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: perspectives, literacy, education, critical, dynamics, politics, discourse, social, textual
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1995-02-01
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0748402152
ISBN-13: 9780748402151

Texts record the meanings we make: in words, pictures and deeds, and politics chronicles our uses of power in shaping social relationships large and small. Textual politics is about meaning - the meaning we make with words and with the symbolic values of every object and action.; The book begins with an introduction which discusses the relationship between Discourse And The Notions Of Power And Ideology. These Concepts Are Then applied to major issues: the social construction of class, gender and individuality; the rhetoric of polarizing social controversies religious fundamentalism vs. gay ri

Author: Jerold S. KaydenThe New York City Department of C
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: york, city, experience, new, space, owned, public, privately
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2000-10-23
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0471362573
ISBN-13: 9780471362579

Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as a "juicy little time bomb of a book", Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience examines for the first time, New York City’s 39-year mixed experience with the production of more than 500 plazas, parks, and atriums located on private property yet by law accessible to and usable by the public.Until now, comprehensive, systematic knowledge about this vast collection of public spaces has not existed, either for experts or members of the public. To remedy this gap, Harvard University professor Jerold S. Kayden, The New York City Department

Author: Committee to Review the New York City Watershed Ma
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: new, york, city, strategy, assessing, supply, management, potable, water, watershed
Number of Pages: 564
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0309067774
ISBN-13: 9780309067775

In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply. Shortly thereafter, the NRC began an analysis of the agreement’s scientific validity. The resulting book finds New York City’s watershed agreement to be a good template for proactive watershed management that, if properly implemented, will maintain high water quality. However, it cautions that the agreement is not a guarantee of permanent filtration avoidance because of changing regulations, uncertainties regarding pollution

Author: New York Jewish Museum
Publisher: Universe Publishing
Keywords: engagement, calendar, jewish
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2009-05-19
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0789319187
ISBN-13: 9780789319180

Authors:New York Transit Museum, Vivian Heller,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: york, subway, new, building, beneath, city
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-12-13
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0393057976
ISBN-13: 9780393057973

A newly discovered cache of magnificent historical photographs. There have been, and will be, other books on the New York City subway system, but none have had access to the wonderful photographic prints from the collections of the New York Transit Museum that are presented in this volume. Made from 8 x 10-inch glass negatives after the turn of the last century, and reproduced here in glorious duotone, over 175 images show the incredible construction techniques and details involved in creating the underground marvel we enjoy today. From "cut and cover" and deep tunneling to sinking under-ri