Author: New York (N.Y.). Water CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Report of the Commissioners Under an Act of the Legislature of this State, Passed May 2, 1834
Author: New York (N.Y.). Water CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Laws of the State of New York Passed at the Sessions of the Legislature
Author: New York (State). LegislaturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
Author: Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Report to the Aqueduct Commissioners by the President ... Containing Reports of the Secretary ... and of the Chief Engineer ... Giving a Review of the Work of the Aqueduct Commission to ....
Author: New York (N.Y.). Aqueduct CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Croton Aqueduct (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army (-United States Army, Army Medical Library; -National Library of Medicine).
Author: Manhattan Phoenix
Author: Daniel S. LevyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195382374
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled Manhattan also created the ashes from which the city was reborn.In 1835, a merchant named Gabriel Disosway marveled at a great fire enveloping New York, commenting on how it "spread more and more vividly from the fiery arena, rendering every object, far and wide, minutely discernible - the lower bay and its Islands, with the shores of Long Island and NewJersey." The fire Disosway witnessed devastated a large swath of lower Manhattan, clearing roughly the same number of acres as the World Trade Center bombing, Manhattan Phoenix explores the emergence of modern New York after it emerged from the devastating fire of 1835 - a catastrophe that revealedhow truly unprepared and haphazardly organized it was - to become a world-class city merely a quarter of a century later. The one led to other. New York effectively had to start over.Daniel Levy's book charts Manhattan's almost miraculous growth while interweaving the lives of various New Yorkers who took part in the city's transformation. Some are well known, such as the land baron John Jacob Astor and Mayor Fernando Wood. Others less so, as with the African-American oystermanThomas Downing and the Bowery Theatre impresario Thomas Hamblin. The book celebrates Fire Chief James Gulick who battled the blaze, and celebrates the work of the architect Alexander Jackson Davis who built marble palaces for the rich. It chronicles the career of the merchant Alexander Stewart whoconstructed the first department store, follows the struggles of the abolitionist Arthur Tappan, and records of the efforts of the engineer John Bloomfield Jervis who brought clean water into homes. And this resurgence owed so much to the visionaries, such as Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux,who designed Central Park, creating a refuge that it remains to this day.Manhattan Phoenix reveals a city first in flames and then in flux but resolute in its determination to emerge as one of the world's greatest metropolises.
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