Columbia in Manhattanville

Columbia in Manhattanville
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1941332234
ISBN-13 : 9781941332238
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Columbia in Manhattanville by : Caitlin Blanchfield

Home to the famed Cotton Club, Alexander Hamilton's grange, the Manhattan Project, and a Studebaker factory, West Harlem has been an ever-transforming pocket of New York City. With the arrival of Columbia University's Manhattanville expansion-a campus master plan designed by architect Renzo Piano-it is now also a site of experimentation in the future of the twenty-first century university. Bringing together conversations with the architects and planners designing the Manhattanville campus, the educators who will inhabit its buildings, and essays from urban and architectural historians, this book both documents the making of Manhattanville and critically engages with the University's own history of expansion. Featuring contributions from Renzo Piano, Elizabeth Diller, Charles Renfro, Amale Andraos, Reinhold Martin, Tom Jessell, and Maxine Griffith, among others.

Manhattanville

Manhattanville
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 0738509868
ISBN-13 : 9780738509860
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Manhattanville by : Eric K. Washington

During the 1800s, Manhattanville flourished as the West Side counterpart to its parent village of Harlem. The wide valley around present-day Broadway and 125th Street formed a unique gateway to the Hudson River between Morningside Heights and Washington Heights. Although rural, Manhattanville was the convergence of river, railroad, and stage lines, representing one of nineteenth-century New York City's most significant residential, manufacturing, and transportation hubs. However, this once-prominent upper Manhattan suburb eventually succumbed to the advent of mass transit and to the absorption of its distinctive features by the city in chase. Manhattanville: Old Heart of West Harlem acquaints readers with the richly diverse history and lore of this famously picturesque locale. From Henry Hudson's exploration of the area's waterfront in 1609 to Gen. George Washington's conversion of its terrain into a battlefield in 1776, momentous events marked Manhattanville's crossroads long before the village streets were laid out in 1806. Readers discover later landmarks, including New York's first Episcopal church to abolish pew rentals, where patriots, Tories, and African American abolitionists convened-today, Harlem's oldest continuing congregation on the same site. The book also introduces notable Manhattanville residents, such as founders Jacob and Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin, clothier Daniel Devlin, and New York City Mayor Daniel F. Tiemann.

Eisenhower

Eisenhower
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Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Total Pages : 977
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ISBN-10 : 9781400066933
ISBN-13 : 140006693X
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Eisenhower by : Jean Edward Smith

In his magisterial bestseller "FDR," Smith provided a fresh, modern look at one of the most indelible figures in American history. Now this peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's 34th president.

Boss of the Grips

Boss of the Grips
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9781631493225
ISBN-13 : 1631493221
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Boss of the Grips by : Eric K Washington

In a feat of remarkable research and timely reclamation, Eric K. Washington uncovers the nearly forgotten life of James H. Williams (1878–1948), the chief porter of Grand Central Terminal’s Red Caps—a multitude of Harlem-based black men whom he organized into the essential labor force of America’s most august railroad station. Washington reveals that despite the highly racialized and often exploitative nature of the work, the Red Cap was a highly coveted job for college-bound black men determined to join New York’s bourgeoning middle class. Examining the deeply intertwined subjects of class, labor, and African American history, Washington chronicles Williams’s life, showing how the enterprising son of freed slaves successfully navigated the segregated world of the northern metropolis, and in so doing ultimately achieved financial and social influence. With this biography, Williams must now be considered, along with Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jacqueline Onassis, one of the great heroes of Grand Central’s storied past.

After the Eclipse

After the Eclipse
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 371
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ISBN-10 : 9780544302655
ISBN-13 : 0544302656
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis After the Eclipse by : Sarah Perry

A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life

Business Fact Book, Part 1

Business Fact Book, Part 1
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Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112064626887
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Business Fact Book, Part 1 by : New York (State). Dept. of Commerce

Education Directory

Education Directory
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Total Pages : 904
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015035887358
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Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Education Directory by : United States. Office of Education

Education Directory

Education Directory
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Total Pages : 558
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015078183947
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Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Education Directory by :

Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs

Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs
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Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105030965003
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Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs by : United States. Bureau of Higher and Continuing Education

AIA Guide to New York City

AIA Guide to New York City
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 1080
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ISBN-10 : 9780199772919
ISBN-13 : 0199772916
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis AIA Guide to New York City by : Norval White

Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision," (New York Magazine), and the "definitive record of New York's architectural heritage" (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky's book is an essential reference for everyone with an interest in architecture and those who simply want to know more about New York City. First published in 1968, the AIA Guide to New York City has long been the definitive guide to the city's architecture. Moving through all five boroughs, neighborhood by neighborhood, it offers the most complete overview of New York's significant places, past and present. The Fifth Edition continues to include places of historical importance--including extensive coverage of the World Trade Center site--while also taking full account of the construction boom of the past 10 years, a boom that has given rise to an unprecedented number of new buildings by such architects as Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, and Renzo Piano. All of the buildings included in the Fourth Edition have been revisited and re-photographed and much of the commentary has been re-written, and coverage of the outer boroughs--particularly Brooklyn--has been expanded. Famed skyscrapers and historic landmarks are detailed, but so, too, are firehouses, parks, churches, parking garages, monuments, and bridges. Boasting more than 3000 new photographs, 100 enhanced maps, and thousands of short and spirited entries, the guide is arranged geographically by borough, with each borough divided into sectors and then into neighborhood. Extensive commentaries describe the character of the divisions. Knowledgeable, playful, and beautifully illustrated, here is the ultimate guided tour of New York's architectural treasures. Acclaim for earlier editions of the AIA Guide to New York City: "An extraordinarily learned, personable exegesis of our metropolis. No other American or, for that matter, world city can boast so definitive a one-volume guide to its built environment." -- Philip Lopate, New York Times "Blithe in spirit and unerring in vision." -- New York Magazine "A definitive record of New York's architectural heritage... witty and helpful pocketful which serves as arbiter of architects, Baedeker for boulevardiers, catalog for the curious, primer for preservationists, and sourcebook to students. For all who seek to know of New York, it is here. No home should be without a copy." -- Municipal Art Society "There are two reasons the guide has entered the pantheon of New York books. One is its encyclopedic nature, and the other is its inimitable style--'smart, vivid, funny and opinionated' as the architectural historian Christopher Gray once summed it up in pithy W & W fashion." -- Constance Rosenblum, New York Times "A book for architectural gourmands and gastronomic gourmets." -- The Village Voice