The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot : : Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It /

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot : : Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It / / Matthew Spady.

Audubon Park’s journey from farmland to cityscapeThe study of Audubon Park’s origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban community, an examination of the relationship between people and the land they inhabit. When John James Audubon bought fo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Spady, Matthew,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 100 black & white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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