The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot : Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It
Record details
- ISBN: 9780823289448
- ISBN: 0823289443
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 p.) : 100 black & white illustrations
remote - Publisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Word about Place Names and Street Names -- Introduction: Humanizing the Landscape -- 1. Triumph and Tribulation on White Street -- 2. The Land before It Was Minnie's -- 3. Arcadia Found . . . -- 4. . . . and Too Quickly Lost -- 5. Audubon Park Begins to Bloom -- 6. Fruit Basket Turnover -- 7 Audubon Park's New Power Brokers -- 8. The Hemlocks -- 9 Three Widows, Three Households. -- 10. Reconstructing the Park -- 11. A Gilded Lily -- 12. Panic -- 13. Halcyon Days -- 14 Waning Days of Summer -- 15 Exit Strategy -- 16 Partition Suit -- 17. Clinging to the Past . . . -- 18. . . . and Facing the Future -- 19. Rapid Transit, Rapid Transformation -- 20. When the Bloom Faded -- Postscript -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Language Note: | In English. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022). |