Big Onion Guide to New York City (eBook)

Ten Historic Tours

Seth I. Kamil, Eric Wakin (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-5126-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This witty, informative walking guide includes nine walking tours, plus a 5-borough driving tour, peppered with informative sidebars, illustrations, and photos from the collection at the New-York Historical Society. Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin's tour company, Big Onion Walking Tours conducts more than 1,200 tours of New York City for more than 35,000 people each year.

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A guide to a variety of witty, informative walking tours in New York City Whether you're a tourist or a native New Yorker, you will appreciate this witty, informative walking guide to New York City, as authors Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin peel back the layers of New York's most popular neighborhoods. Here in one volume are their award-winning tours. In their Immigrant New York tour you can take a walk on the Bowery, the most infamous street in the city and learn how the city's finest roadway became America's Skid Row. In Before Stonewall you'll discover the many facets of gay and lesbian history and trace the development of Greenwich Village as a cultural mecca. From SoHo to the Upper West Side; from Harlem to Brooklyn there's something in The Big Onion Guide for everyone. The authors show how it was nothing new when Mayor Giuliani was unable to ban sales by immigrant mobile food vendors. The Guide takes us to the place where the Dutch tried to ban street side sales by Scottish peddlers 350 years ago, and where the great Fiorello La Guardia banned most of the pushcart salesmen at midcentury. But Kamil and Wakin are not nostalgists or preservationists. Instead, their historical tours connect today's city with the snapshots of yesterday, blending social and cultural history with the evolution of different ethnic and cultural communities. The Big Onion Guide includes ten walking tours, plus a 5-borough driving tour, peppered with informative sidebars, illustrations, and photos from the collection at the New-York Historical Society. Visit the Big Onion Guide to New York City site at www.nyupress.org/bigonion

Inhalt

1 WALL STREET: The Architecture of Capitalism ? 2 THE LOWER EAST SIDE: Immigrant New York ?? 3 GREENWICH VILLAGE: A Gay and Lesbian History ?? 4 FOUR SQUARES: Union Square, Stuyvesant Square, Gramercy Park, and Madison Square ??? 5 THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE: A Walk from Brooklyn Heights to City Hall 6 CENTRAL PARK: New York City’s Largest Work of Art 7 THE UPPER EAST SIDE: Manhattan’s “Gold Coast” 8 HISTORIC HARLEM: African American Capital of the Twentieth Century ??? 9 GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: A Garden Cemetery Revisited ??? 10 THE OTHER BOROUGHS: A Driving Tour

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2012
• Vorwort: Kenneth Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Apple • Before • called • City • dubbed • knew • Long • Onion • those • York
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-5126-4 / 1479851264
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-5126-3 / 9781479851263