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Preserving South Street Seaport

The Dream and Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District

By: James M Lindgren

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Preserving South Street Seaport

The Dream and Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District

By: James M Lindgren

Preserving South Street Seaport tells the fascinating story, from the 1960s to the present, of the South Street Seaport District of Lower Manhattan. Home to the original Fulton Fish Market and then the South Street Seaport Museum, it is one of the last neighborhoods of late 18th- and early 19th-century New York City not to be destroyed by urban development. In 1988, South Street Seaport became the city's #1 destination for visitors. Featuring over 40 archival and contemporary black-and-white photographs, this is the first history of a remarkable historic district and maritime museum. Lindgren skillfully tells the complex story of this unique cobblestoned neighborhood. Comprised of deteriorating, 4-5 story buildings in what was known as the Fulton Fish Market, the neighborhood was earmarked for the erection of the World Trade Center until New Jersey forced its placement one mile westward. After Penn Station’s demolition had angered many New York citizens, preservationists mobilized in 1966 to save this last piece of Manhattan’s old port and recreate its fabled 19th-century “Street of Ships.” The South Street Seaport and the World Trade Center became the yin and yang of Lower Manhattan’s rebirth. In an unprecedented move, City Hall designated the museum as developer of the twelve-block urban renewal district. However, the Seaport Museum,whose membership became the largest of any history museum in the city, was never adequately funded, and it suffered with the real estate collapse of 1972. The city, bankers, and state bought the museum’s fifty buildings and leased them back at terms that crippled the museum financially. That led to the controversial construction of the Rouse Company's New Fulton Market (1983) and Pier 17 mall (1985). Lindgren chronicles these years of struggle, as the defenders of the people-oriented museum and historic district tried to save the original streets and buildings and the largest fleet of historic ships in the country from the schemes of developers, bankers, politicians, and even museum administrators. Though the Seaport Museum’s finances were always tenuous, the neighborhood and the museum were improving until the tragedy of 9/11. But the prolonged recovery brought on dysfunctional museum managers and indifference, if not hostility, from City Hall. Superstorm Sandy then dealt a crushing blow. Today, the future of this pioneering museum, designated by Congress as America’s National Maritime Museum, is in doubt, as its waterfront district is eyed by powerful commercial developers. While Preserving South Street Seaport reveals the pitfalls of privatizing urban renewal, developing museum-corporate partnerships, and introducing a professional regimen over a people’s movement, it also tells the story of how a seedy, decrepit piece of waterfront became a wonderful venue for all New Yorkers and visitors from around the world to enjoy. This book will appeal to a wide audience of readers in the history and practice of museums, historic preservation, urban history and urban development, and contemporary New York City. This book is supported by a grant from Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.

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NYU Press

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1479853941

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The Lindgren/Tryon Genealogy

The Ancestry of John Ralph Lindgren and Shirley Ann Tryon, Revised Edition

By: J. Ralph Lindgren

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The Lindgren/Tryon Genealogy

The Ancestry of John Ralph Lindgren and Shirley Ann Tryon, Revised Edition

By: J. Ralph Lindgren

The revised edition of The Lindgren/Tryon Genealogy is leap forward as a family history. It carefully documents the often fascinating lives of both ordinary and extra-ordinary ancestors. The scope and extent of newly discovered forbearers is breathtaking. Beside an exhaustive Bibliography and Name Index, it also includes a new chapter on genetic origins. The first four chapters explore family roots over a wide swath of Europe and the Middle East. The time horizon of this family's story spans a breathtaking three and a half millennia, back to about 1525 BCE when a man named Cenna and a woman named Neferu, both in ancient Egypt, married. They would become the parents of Queen Tetisheri and the grandparents of Pharoah Sequenenre Tao II, the 5th Pharaoh of the 17th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. Through the intervening 128 generations the reader meets people leading both ordinary and extra ordinary lives: From farmers, tradesmen, poets, and professionals to one of the murderers of Bishop Beckett and seven Christian saints; from slaves to Kings and Emperors. Most were Christian, but many were Jewish, some Zoroastrian and still others sun worshipers - a few were probably Druids. The final chapter sketches the genetic context of the family history. This sketch runs from the Rift Valley of Africa at about 50,000 years ago to Southern Europe about 20,000 years ago. The earliest individuals in these lines, known only as Mitochondrial Eve and Eurasian-Adam, serve to place this family in the vast context of our evolving species.

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625

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Trafford Publishing

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1466981032

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War Diaries 1939-1945

By: Astrid Lindgren

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War Diaries 1939-1945

By: Astrid Lindgren

Den svenske forfatter Astrid Lindgrens (1907-2002) personlige skildring af krigens gang både ude i verden og i Sverige, hvor man får et unikt indblik i dagligdagen i Lindgren-familien

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Yale University Press

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0300220049

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9780300220049

Pippi Longstocking

By: Astrid Lindgren

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Pippi Longstocking

By: Astrid Lindgren

Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey - but without any parents - at the edge of a Swedish village.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0192752049

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Working-Class Raj

Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India

By: Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson

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Working-Class Raj

Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India

By: Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson

Explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India after the Rebellion of 1857.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009356585

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Pippi Longstocking (Puffin Modern Classics)

By: Astrid Lindgren

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Pippi Longstocking (Puffin Modern Classics)

By: Astrid Lindgren

The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. "A rollicking story."--The Horn Book Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a flair for the outrageous that seems to lead to one adventure after another!

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Penguin

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0142402494

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