Author: Robert W. Snyder
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"—the home of the nation's largest Dominican community. The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City's long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses. Crossing Broadway is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan's journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway—over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born—and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.
Crossing Broadway
Author: Robert W. Snyder
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"—the home of the nation's largest Dominican community. The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City's long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses. Crossing Broadway is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan's journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway—over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born—and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"—the home of the nation's largest Dominican community. The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City's long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses. Crossing Broadway is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan's journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway—over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born—and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.
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Broadway's Most Wanted
Author: Tom Shea
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612340334
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
There is no business like show business!
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612340334
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
There is no business like show business!
San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year ...
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
Book Description
San Francisco Municipal Reports ...
Author: San Francisco (Calif.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1414
Book Description
Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year ....
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
San Francisco Municipal Reports
Author: San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
Publisher:
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Author: J. K. Rowling
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780751565362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780751565362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.
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Proceedings of the Public Service Commission for the First District, State of New York ...
Author: New York (State). Public Service Commission. First District
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description