Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
Trow City Directory Co.'s, Formerly Wilson's, Business Directory of New York City
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
The Trow Business Directory of New York City (formerly Wilson's).
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 1354
Book Description
Trow's (formerly Wilson's) Business Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, City of New York
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 1456
Book Description
The Trow (formerly Wilson's) Copartnership and Corporation Directory of New York City
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Trow City Directory Co.'s, Formerly Wilson's, Copartnership and Corporation Directory of New York City
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Trow (formerly Wilson's) Copartnership and Corporation Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, City of New York
Author: New York City Directory
Author: Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
Author: Fran LeadonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393285456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
“Part lively social history, part architectural survey, here is the story of Broadway—from 17th-century cow path to Great White Way.”—Geoff Wisner, Wall Street Journal From Bowling Green all the way to Marble Hill, Fran Leadon takes us on a mile-by-mile journey up America’s most vibrant and complex thoroughfare, through the history at the heart of Manhattan. Broadway traces the physical and social transformation of an avenue that has been both the “Path of Progress” and a “street of broken dreams,” home to both parades and riots, startling wealth and appalling destitution. Glamorous, complex, and sometimes troubling, the evolution of an oft-flooded dead end to a canyon of steel and glass is the story of American progress.
Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1472
Book Description
Building the Skyline
Author: Jason M. BarrPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199344388
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles the economic history of the Manhattan skyline. In the process, he debunks some widely held misconceptions about the city's history. Starting with Manhattan's natural and geological history, Barr moves on to how these formations influenced early land use and the development of neighborhoods, including the dense tenement neighborhoods of Five Points and the Lower East Side, and how these early decisions eventually impacted the location of skyscrapers built during the Skyscraper Revolution at the end of the 19th century. Barr then explores the economic history of skyscrapers and the skyline, investigating the reasons for their heights, frequencies, locations, and shapes. He discusses why skyscrapers emerged downtown and why they appeared three miles to the north in midtown-but not in between the two areas. Contrary to popular belief, this was not due to the depths of Manhattan's bedrock, nor the presence of Grand Central Station. Rather, midtown's emergence was a response to the economic and demographic forces that were taking place north of 14th Street after the Civil War. Building the Skyline also presents the first rigorous investigation of the causes of the building boom during the Roaring Twenties. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the boom was largely a rational response to the economic growth of the nation and city. The last chapter investigates the value of Manhattan Island and the relationship between skyscrapers and land prices. Finally, an Epilogue offers policy recommendations for a resilient and robust future skyline.