Manhattan

Thermes Jennifer Thermes

Description

Told in dazzling maps and informative sidebars, Manhattan explores the 400+ year history of Manhattan Island. From before its earliest settlement to the vibrant metropolis that exists today, the island of Manhattan has always been a place of struggle, growth, and radical transformation. Humans, history, and natural events have shaped this tiny sliver of land for more than 400 years. In Manhattan, travel back in time to discover how a small rodent began an era of rapid change for the island. Learn about immigration, the slave trade, and the people who built New York City. See how a street plan projected the city's future, and how epic fires and storms led to major feats of engineering above and below ground. Through dramatic illustrations, informative sidebars, and detailed maps inspired by historic archives, Manhattan explores the rich history that still draws people from all around the world to the island's shores today. From The Battery downtown up to Inwood, every inch of the island has a story to tell.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Nueva York
• New York

Informations

• Publié par: ABRAMS BOOKS
• Date de parution: 06 août 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781683356202
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

Extrait

1.

Approximate original shoreline of Manhattan

in the 1600s-from Pearl Street on the East River

to Greenwich Street on the Hudson River.

2.

Astor Place: Named for John Jacob

Astor, who made his fortune trading

beaver pelts and real estate.

3.

Peter Stuyvesant was the final director general of New Amsterdam before the British took

over the island and renamed it New York. He was known for having one wooden leg.

4.

Collect Pond Park

5.

The Hangman s Elm

6.

Minetta Lane covers a stream of the same name

that still flows underground. In the 1860s, the area

was known as Little Africa for the former enslaved

people who came from down south to live there

after Emancipation.

7.

Site of Werpoes, one of

the largest Lenape

villages.

8.

African Burial Ground

National Monument

9.

Pearl Street was named for

giant piles of empty oyster shells

left behind by the Lenape.

10.

75 Wall Street: Site of the

Meal Market and New York City s first

slave market.

11.

The Rutgers and Delancey families divided their

land into small grids before the Commissioners Plan

of 1811 laid out a grid design for the entire island.
12.

The High Line park was built along an

old elevated train track that once belonged

to the New York Central Railroad.

13.

Location of Seneca Village,

torn down in 1857 when Central

Park was constructed.

14.

The Croton Receiving

Reservoir once sat where

the Great Lawn is today.

15.

The East River is not truly a river because

it has no freshwater source. Technically, it is a

marine tidal strait connecting Upper New York

Bay to the Long Island Sound.

16.

The New York Public Library opened

in 1911. It was built on the site of the

Croton Distributing Reservoir, which

stored the city s water supply.

Abrams Books for Young Readers New York
MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO

when the glaciers melted, before

anything had a name, the island lay sheltered in an estuary,

where freshwater river met saltwater sea, anchored on bedrock

far below the surface of the earth.

Summers were steamy. Winters were cold. Wind blew in from the

ocean nearby, and sunshine and rain were abundant.

On the land, in the air, and beneath the sparkling waters, the

island bubbled with life.