Radical Walking Tours Of New York City

Author : Bruce Kayton
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781609800420

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Radical Walking Tours of New York City by Bruce Kayton Pdf

Traditional walking tours of New York enshrine the wealthy and war heroes by emphasizing what they’ve left behind. Rarely seen are those buried in their wake—those who fought the power, pushing for a better world. In Radical Walking Tours of New York Bruce Kayton leads us to monuments of those other heroes. Through Kayton’s lens, the history of all hitherto existing neighborhoods is the history of class struggles, civil rights battles, and labor movements; these twelve tours provide as many exciting, provocative, and educational afternoons. You can visit, for instance, Emma Goldman’s long-time home in the East Village, Langston Hughes’s house in Harlem, the site of Mabel Dodge’s salon o the apartment in which John Reed worked on Ten Days That Shook the World, and the site of Margaret Sanger’s first birth control clinic. From Battery Park to Harlem, from the Lower East Side to Central Park, Bruce Kayton’s tours provide a new perspective on the history of both New York City and American radicalism.

Author : Bruce Kayton
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781609806903

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Radical Walking Tours of New York City, Third Edition by Bruce Kayton Pdf

Too often, tours of New York City are paeans to power--extolling the fabled New York skyline and the robber barrons whose wealth built it up, praising the marvels of a city built largely on finance. But New York has also, since its founding, been a city of struggle, a place where workers lived, created wealth, and spun out the rich cultural tapestry that has put the small island of Manhattan at the very center of the world's imagination. It is a city of proletarian uprising, of abolitionist rebellion, of civil rights demonstrations, and radical futures. This is Bruce Kayton's New York, the town of Emma Goldman and Langston Hughes, of Margaret Sanger and John Reed, of demonstrations and shootouts, of community gardens and marches. Now in an expanded third edition with a new Upper West Side tour featuring the Berrigans, Maxim Gorky, Lucien Carr and others, and updated sites reflecting recent anti-war and police-brutality protests, Occupy Wall Street and Zuccotti Park, and more, these thirteen walking tours, taking us from Battery Park to Harlem, from the Lower East Side to Central Park, offer a vital new perspective on the history of New York City and its place in the traditions of American radicalism.

Author : Martin Dunford,Jack Holland
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Travel
ISBN : 185828869X

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The Rough Guide to New York City by Martin Dunford,Jack Holland Pdf

Written by New York natives, this guide zeros in on Manhattan, the city's crown jewel, and its world-class museums, restaurants, clubs, and hotels, and then goes on to the rich and diverse outer boroughs, digging up the less obvious charms. 34 maps. of color maps.

Author : Carol Kammen,Norma Prendergast
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0742503992

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Encyclopedia of Local History by Carol Kammen,Norma Prendergast Pdf

How is local history thought about? How should it be approached? Through brief, succinct notes and essay-length entries, the Encyclopedia of Local History presents ideas to consider, sources to use, historical fields and trends to explore. It also provides commentary on a number of subjects, including the everyday topics that most local historians encounter. A handy reference tool that no public historian's desk should be without!

Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Fodor's
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : 9781400015108

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New York City by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff Pdf

New York City residents will find this slender guide a "must have, " with more than 50 pages of innovative color maps.

Author : Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780813596082

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The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World by Daniel J. Walkowitz Pdf

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Jewish socialist movement played a vital role in protecting workers’ rights throughout Europe and the Americas. Yet few traces of this movement or its accomplishments have been preserved or memorialized in Jewish heritage sites. The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World investigates the politics of heritage tourism and collective memory. In an account that is part travelogue, part social history, and part family saga, acclaimed historian Daniel J. Walkowitz visits key Jewish museums and heritage sites from Berlin to Belgrade, from Krakow to Kiev, and from Warsaw to New York, to discover which stories of the Jewish experience are told and which are silenced. As he travels to thirteen different locations, participates in tours, displays, and public programs, and gleans insight from local historians, he juxtaposes the historical record with the stories presented in heritage tourism. What he finds raises provocative questions about the heritage tourism industry and its role in determining how we perceive Jewish history and identity. This book offers a unique perspective on the importance of collective memory and the dangers of collective forgetting.

Author : Ada Calhoun
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393249798

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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street by Ada Calhoun Pdf

A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks—the epicenter of American cool. St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street’s apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street—from its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant’s pear orchard to today’s hipster playground—organized around those pivotal moments when critics declared “St. Marks is dead.” In a narrative enriched by hundreds of interviews and dozens of rare images, St. Marks native Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W. H. Auden to Abbie Hoffman, from Keith Haring to the Beastie Boys, among many others. She argues that St. Marks has variously been an elite address, an immigrants’ haven, a mafia warzone, a hippie paradise, and a backdrop to the film Kids—but it has always been a place that outsiders call home. This idiosyncratic work offers a bold new perspective on gentrification, urban nostalgia, and the evolution of a community.

Author : Toby Glickman,Gene Glickman
Publisher : Praeger Pub Text
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0275917878

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The New York Red Pages by Toby Glickman,Gene Glickman Pdf

Fifteen walking tours of Manhattan below 14th street that visit scores of locations, parks, streets, and buildings that have played a part in progressive and radical movement history from the American Revolution through the anti-Vietnam war movement.

Author : Carolina Bank Muñoz,Penny Lewis,Emily Tumpson Molina
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520964150

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A People's Guide to New York City by Carolina Bank Muñoz,Penny Lewis,Emily Tumpson Molina Pdf

This alternative guidebook for one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people’s New York City. The sites and stories of A People’s Guide to New York City shift our perception of what defines New York, placing the passion, determination, defeats, and victories of its people at the core. Delving into the histories of New York's five boroughs, you will encounter enslaved Africans in revolt, women marching for equality, workers on strike, musicians and performers claiming streets for their art, and neighbors organizing against landfills and industrial toxins and in support of affordable housing and public schools. The streetscapes that emerge from these groups' struggles bear the traces, and this book shows you where to look to find them. New York City is a preeminent global city, serving as the headquarters for hundreds of multinational firms and a world-renowned cultural hub for fashion, art, and music. It is among the most multicultural cities in the world and also one of the most segregated cities in the United States. The people that make this global city function—immigrants, people of color, and the working classes—reside largely in the so-called outer boroughs, outside the corporations, neon, and skyscrapers of Manhattan. A People’s Guide to New York City expands the scope and scale of traditional guidebooks, providing an equitable exploration of the diverse communities throughout the city. Through the stories of over 150 sites across the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island as well as thematic tours and contemporary and archival photographs, a people’s New York emerges, one in which collective struggles for justice and freedom have shaped the very landscape of the city.

Author : Michelle Roy Kelly
Publisher : Adams Media Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : WISC:89077121234

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Mr Cheap's New York by Michelle Roy Kelly Pdf

Author : Cheryl Farr Leas
Publisher : *Frommers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 002863036X

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Frommer's? 2000 New York City From $80 A Day by Cheryl Farr Leas Pdf

"Written by travel veterans with a nose for comfort.… Accuracy: high." —Details magazine Everything You Need for an Unforgettable—and Affordable—Trip! Great places to stay that you can really afford, from rooms in quaint Village inns to spacious Upper West Side suites Cheap eats galore, from romantic bistros to ethnic enclaves—plus tips on how to dine in the city's top restaurants without breaking the bank What to see and do for free (or almost), from masterpieces at the Met to TV talk-show tapings—with insider tips on how to get around A shopper's guide to affordable duds, used books, cheap CDs, and more Low-cost nightlife: free Lincoln Center concerts, great neighborhood bars, hip downtown dance clubs, Shakespeare in the Park—plus discount tickets for Broadway shows Frommer's. The Name You Can Trust. Find us online at www.frommers.com

Author : Bruce Murphy,Alessandro De Rosa,Alessandra de Rosa
Publisher : Alpha Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0028622979

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The Complete Idiot's Travel Guide to New York City by Bruce Murphy,Alessandro De Rosa,Alessandra de Rosa Pdf

c Quick & Easy Guidance so your customers will have more time to enjoy their trips and less time to rummage through pages of useless information. Heavy use of dynamic icons, maps, and indexes expertly developed by our Frommer's travel staff. c Idiot-Proof Instructions so your customer will know when to go where and why, all without the stress of wondering, "Will I get burned?" c Down-to-Earth Advice detailing the location by sights, hotels, restaurants, do's and don'ts, tourist traps, and time- and money-wasters to be avoided! Our new Complete Idiot's Travel Guides have the advice and opinions that matter for the perfect idiot-proof trip.

Author : Katherine Cancila
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : 9781426208737

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Walking New York by Katherine Cancila Pdf

Presents itineraries for fifteen walking tours in Manhattan, with descriptions of the attractions located along each route; information about the history, architecture, and culture of the city; maps; and photographs.

Author : Jan Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : IND:30000126687767

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Eccentric America by Jan Friedman Pdf

A guide to all things wacky, weird, curious, and bizarre in the U.S.A., featuring approximately 1,000 festivals, attractions, tours, shopping, restaurants, hotels, and eccentric environments. photos. 51 maps.

Author : William G. Scheller,Kay Scheller
Publisher : Insiders' Guide (CT)
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0762735333

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New York by William G. Scheller,Kay Scheller Pdf

Stay at a lighthouse on Lake Ontario, explore some gorges and waterfalls in the Finger Lakes, or walk a historic mile in Queens-New York has endless ways to discover off-the- beaten path places that make the Empire State special. William G. and Kay Scheller are travel writers who have for decades combed the backstreets and two-lane blacktops of the Empire State. They currently live in Waterville, Vermont.