The Bronx, in Bits and Pieces
Title | The Bronx, in Bits and Pieces PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Twomey |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2017-12-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1532038593 |
Take another walk down memory lane to the old Bronx with the late historian, Bill Twomey. The first volume of The Bronx, In Bits and Pieces held stories of taverns and restaurants, sports, the shoreline, schools, places of worship, monuments, notable people, and more. Part 2 holds over a hundred additional stories of interesting people, places, and things. Read as much or as little as you like, whether you have a few moments or a few hours. All stories were previously printed in the Bronx Times Reporter and written by Twomey himself.
The Bronx
Title | The Bronx PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Twomey |
Publisher | AuthorHouse |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2007-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1600080626 |
If you have ever been curious as to why there is a the in the Bronx or how the borough came to be named, look no further. Bill Twomey reveals the ins and outs of Bronx history as no one else can, and he does it in over 200 stories so you can read as much or as little as you like whether you have a few moments or a few hours. Find out the origins of the various communities of the borough and the stories of the many celebrities and interesting people who call the Bronx home. Whether you came from West Farms, Hunts Point, Glason Point, Throggs Neck, or Riverdale, there are stories here to entertain and educate you. Freedomland, Parkchester, Fort Schuyler, the Concourse, Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Zoo, and tales of old Baychester will remind you of a bygone era. No community is left out of the fascinating book that will make you the guru of all things Bronx.
Thresholes
Title | Thresholes PDF eBook |
Author | Lara Mimosa Montes |
Publisher | Coffee House Press |
Pages | 89 |
Release | 2020-05-12 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1566895871 |
Thresholes is both a doorway and an absence, a roadmap and a remembering. In this almanac of place and memory, Lara Mimosa Montes writes of her family’s past, returning to the Bronx of the 70s and 80s and the artistry that flourished there. What is the threshold between now and then, and how can the poet be the bridge between the two?
Tom Clancy's The Division: New York Collapse
Title | Tom Clancy's The Division: New York Collapse PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Irvine |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-03-08 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9781452148274 |
New York Collapse is an in-world fictionalized companion to one of the biggest video game releases of 2016: Tom Clancy's The Division from Ubisoft. Within this discarded survivalist field guide, written before the collapse, lies a mystery—a handwritten account of a woman struggling to discover why New York City fell. The keys to unlocking the survivor's full story are hidden within seven removable artifacts, ranging from a full-city map to a used transit card. Retrace her steps through a destroyed urban landscape and decipher her clues to reveal the key secrets at the heart of this highly anticipated game.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning
Title | Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Mahler |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2006-03-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780312424305 |
By early 1977, the metropolis was in the grip of hysteria caused by a murderer dubbed "Son of Sam." And on a sweltering night in July, a citywide power outage touched off an orgy of looting and arson that led to the largest mass arrest in New York's history. As the turbulent year wore on, the city became absorbed in two epic battles: the fight between Yankee slugger Reggie Jackson and team manager Billy Martin, and the battle between Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo for the city's mayoralty. Buried beneath these parallel conflicts, one for the soul of baseball, the other for the soul of the city, was the subtext of race. The brash and confident Jackson took every black myth and threw it back in white America's face. Meanwhile, Koch and Cuomo ran bitterly negative campaigns that played upon urbanites' fears of soaring crime and falling municipal budgets. These braided stories tell the history of a year that saw the opening of Studio 54, the evolution of punk rock, and the dawning of modern SoHo. As the pragmatist Koch defeated the visionary Cuomo and as Reggie Jackson finally rescued a team racked with dissension,1977 became a year of survival but also of hope. -- Publishers description.
Throggs Neck & Pelham Bay
Title | Throggs Neck & Pelham Bay PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Twomey |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9780738500133 |
First settled in 1643, Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay lies along the west bank of Eastchester Bay in the Bronx. It was once an area of grand estates and farms and was home to some of the wealthiest people in America, including Collis P. Huntington and Catherine Lorillard Wolfe. Discover the history of the early residents of the community and its place in an ever-changing America in this unique and unprecedented pictorial collection. Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay offers a unique glimpse into the past, through carefully preserved images and a thoroughly researched text. Readers will delight in the memories of yesteryear and the images of a young and undaunted America. The images in this volume cover all of the communities included in the charter granted to John Throckmorton by the Dutch in 1642. Called Vriedlandt or "Land of Peace" by Dutch authorities, the area eventually fell prey to the burdens of war during the American Revolution. The images in Throggs Neck-Pelham Bay depict all aspects of life, from work to play. View the early modes of transportation used by the residents, the schools and churches they attended, the homes they lived in, and the activities they enjoyed.
The Great Mistake
Title | The Great Mistake PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Lee |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2021-06-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0525658505 |
An exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder—“engrossing” (Wall Street Journal), “immersive” (The New Yorker), and “seriously entertaining” (The Sunday Times, London). Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing—on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the thirteenth—shook the city. Born to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural History, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret, a life locked within him that now, in the hour of his death, may finally break free. A work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion, The Great Mistake is the story of a city transformed, a murder that made a private man infamous, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him—yet enlarged it.