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Author |
: Georges Simenon |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2011-11-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590175613 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590175611 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by : Georges Simenon
An actor, recently divorced, at loose ends in New York; a woman, no less lonely, perhaps even more desperate than the man: they meet by chance in an all-night diner and are drawn to each other on the spot. Roaming the city streets, hitting its late-night dives, dropping another coin into yet another jukebox, these two lost souls struggle to understand what it is that has brought them, almost in spite of themselves, together. They are driven—from moment to moment, from bedroom to bedroom—to improvise the most unexpected of love stories, a tale of suspense where risk alone offers salvation. Georges Simenon was the most popular and prolific of the twentieth century’s great novelists. Three Bedrooms in Manhattan—closely based on the story of his own meeting with his second wife—is his most passionate and revealing work.
Author |
: Becky Cooper |
Publisher |
: Abrams |
Total Pages |
: 138 |
Release |
: 2013-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781613124697 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1613124694 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mapping Manhattan by : Becky Cooper
Armed with hundreds of blank maps she had painstakingly printed by hand, Becky Cooper walked Manhattan from end to end. Along her journey she met police officers, homeless people, fashion models, and senior citizens who had lived in Manhattan all their lives. She asked the strangers to “map their Manhattan” and to mail the personalized maps back to her. Soon, her P.O. box was filled with a cartography of intimate narratives: past loves, lost homes, childhood memories, comical moments, and surprising confessions. A beautifully illustrated, PostSecret-style tribute to New York, Mapping Manhattan includes 75 maps from both anonymous mapmakers and notable New Yorkers, including Man on Wire aerialist Philippe Petit, New York Times wine critic Eric Asimov, Tony award-winning actor Harvey Fierstein, and many more. Praise for Mapping Manhattan: “What an intriguing project.”—The New York Times “A tender cartographic love letter to this timeless city of multiple dimensions, parallel realities, and perpendicular views.” —Brain Pickings “Cooper’s beautiful project linking the lives of New Yorkers is one that will continue to grow.” —Publishers Weekly online
Author |
: Matteo Pericoli |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 8 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105111324427 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Manhattan Unfurled by : Matteo Pericoli
Author |
: William B. Helmreich |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2018-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691166995 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691166994 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Manhattan Nobody Knows by : William B. Helmreich
A unique walking guide to Manhattan, from the author of The New York Nobody Knows. --Amazon.com.
Author |
: Marguerite Holloway |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2013-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393089806 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393089800 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor by : Marguerite Holloway
"Randel is endlessly fascinating, and Holloway’s biography tells his life with great skill." —Steve Weinberg, USA Today John Randel Jr. (1787–1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan’s development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel’s engrossing and dramatic life story for the first time, this eye-opening biography introduces an unheralded pioneer of American engineering and mapmaking. Charged with “gridding” what was then an undeveloped, hilly island, Randel recorded the contours of Manhattan down to the rocks on its shores. He was obsessed with accuracy and steeped in the values of the Enlightenment, in which math and science promised dominion over nature. The result was a series of maps, astonishing in their detail and precision, which undergird our knowledge about the island today. During his varied career Randel created surveying devices, designed an early elevated subway, and proposed a controversial alternative route for the Erie Canal—winning him admirers and enemies. The Measure of Manhattan is more than just the life of an unrecognized engineer. It is about the ways in which surveying and cartography changed the ground beneath our feet. Bringing Randel’s story into the present, Holloway travels with contemporary surveyors and scientists trying to envision Manhattan as a wild island once again. Illustrated with dozens of historical images and antique maps, The Measure of Manhattan is an absorbing story of a fascinating man that captures the era when Manhattan—indeed, the entire country—still seemed new, the moment before canals and railroads helped draw a grid across the American landscape.
Author |
: Sarah Morgan |
Publisher |
: HQN Books |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2016-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781459294080 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1459294084 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sleepless in Manhattan by : Sarah Morgan
A NYC events planner gets her big break—with the only guy to break her heart—in the USA Today–bestselling author’s “satisfying, sizzling romance” (All About Romance). Cool, calm, and competent, events planner Paige Walker loves a challenge. After a childhood spent in and out of hospitals, she’s now determined to prove herself—and where better to take the world by storm than Manhattan? But when Paige loses the job she loves, she must face her biggest challenge of all—striking out on her own. Except launching her own events company is nothing compared to hiding her outrageous crush on Jake Romano—her brother’s best friend, New York’s most in-demand date, and the only man to break her heart. When Jake offers Paige’s fledgling company a big opportunity, their still-sizzling chemistry starts giving her sleepless nights. But can she convince the man who trusts no one to take a chance on forever? Sleepless in Manhattan is the first novel in Sarah Morgan’s From Manhattan with Love trilogy.
Author |
: Barry James Dyke |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2007-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0979317703 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780979317705 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pirates of Manhattan by : Barry James Dyke
Author |
: Catherine McNeur |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2014-11-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674725096 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674725093 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Taming Manhattan by : Catherine McNeur
George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History VSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America Hornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society Library James Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic With pigs roaming the streets and cows foraging in the Battery, antebellum Manhattan would have been unrecognizable to inhabitants of today’s sprawling metropolis. Fruits and vegetables came from small market gardens in the city, and manure piled high on streets and docks was gold to nearby farmers. But as Catherine McNeur reveals in this environmental history of Gotham, a battle to control the boundaries between city and country was already being waged, and the winners would take dramatic steps to outlaw New York’s wild side. “[A] fine book which make[s] a real contribution to urban biography.” —Joseph Rykwert, Times Literary Supplement “Tells an odd story in lively prose...The city McNeur depicts in Taming Manhattan is the pestiferous obverse of the belle epoque city of Henry James and Edith Wharton that sits comfortably in many imaginations...[Taming Manhattan] is a smart book that engages in the old fashioned business of trying to harvest lessons for the present from the past.” —Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times
Author |
: Tom Miller |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2015-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1910258008 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781910258002 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seeking New York by : Tom Miller
Based on the popular blog Daytonian in Manhattan, 'Seeking New York' investigates the back stories of Manhattan's architecture and monuments. Alongside the expected account of architects, dates and styles, it reveals the human history of the buildings and statues: the scandals, the tribulations, the joys and achievements, the humanity, indeed, of the New Yorkers who lived within these walls.
Author |
: Reggie Nadelson |
Publisher |
: Artisan |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2021-04-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781648290640 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1648290647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Marvelous Manhattan by : Reggie Nadelson
“A timely read. . . . [Nadelson’s] reporting, all from a personal lens, is up-to-date. . . . Like chocolate chips in a cookie, the book is studded with delicious photos old and new.” —Florence Fabricant, New York Times “A wonderfully lively, knowledgeable journey through the past and present of places that help make New York City what it is, and which we must cherish and (hopefully) preserve.” —Salman Rushdie New York might have Broadway, Times Square, and the Empire State Building, but the real heart and soul of the city can be found in the iconic places that have defined cool since “cool” became a word. Places like Di Palo’s in Little Italy, where you might stop in to pick up a little cheese only to find yourself in a long conversation—part friendly chat, part profound tutorial—with fourth-generation owner Lou Di Palo, sampling cheeses all the while. Or Raoul’s in SoHo, to enjoy a classic steak-frites in the company of downtown artists, celebrities, and dyed-in-the-wool locals. Or Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem, to be in the room where some young guys named Thelonious, Dizzy, and Charlie invented bebop. Or maybe Russ & Daughters, to pick up the city’s best lox and bagels, which they’ve been selling since 1914. A lifelong New Yorker, writer Reggie Nadelson celebrates her city and all the places that make it special. Part guidebook, part cultural history, part walk down memory lane, alive with the spirit and the grit of small, often family-owned businesses that have survived the Great Depression, World War II, 9/11, and the coronavirus lockdown, Marvelous Manhattan is a seductive and timely book for anyone who lives in New York, loves the city, lived there once, or wishes they had. Because that’s the thing about Manhattan: all you need to do is walk into the right place—say, Fanelli’s on Prince Street—sit down at the bar, order a drink, open this book, and suddenly you’re a New Yorker.