Queens Nobody Knows (eBook)

An Urban Walking Guide

William B. Helmreich (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2020
488 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20002-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The only neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to New York City's largest borough, from the award-winning author of The New York Nobody KnowsBill Helmreich walked every block of New York City-some six-thousand miles-to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Later, he re-walked most of Queens-1,012 miles in all-to create this one-of-a-kind walking guide to the city's largest borough, from hauntingly beautiful parks to hidden parts of Flushing's Chinese community. Drawing on hundreds of conversations he had with residents during his block-by-block journey through this fascinating, diverse, and underexplored borough, Helmreich highlights hundreds of facts and points of interest that you won't find in any other guide.In Bellerose, you'll explore a museum filled with soul-searing artwork created by people with mental illness. In Douglaston, you'll gaze up in awe at the city's tallest tree. In Corona, you'll discover the former synagogue where Madonna lived when she first came to New York. In St. Albans, you'll see the former homes of jazz greats, including Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday. In Woodhaven, you'll walk a block where recent immigrants from Mexico, Guyana, and China all proudly fly the American flag. And much, much more.An unforgettably vivid chronicle of today's Queens, the book can be enjoyed without ever leaving home-but it's almost guaranteed to inspire you to get out and explore this captivating borough.Covers every one of Queens's neighborhoods, providing a colorful portrait of their most interesting, unusual, and unfamiliar people, places, and thingsEach neighborhood section features a brief overview and history; a detailed, user-friendly map keyed to the text; photographs; and a lively guided walking tourDraws on the author's 1,012-mile walk through every Queens neighborhoodIncludes insights from conversations with hundreds of residents

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 65 b/w illus. 48 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African Americans • Apartment • Art deco • assassination • Bakery • beige • Bernadette Soubirous • Blockbusting • Boulevards • Broad Channel (IND Rockaway Line) • Bungalow • Canada Dry • Cat • Cemetery • Conduit Avenue • crack epidemic • Creedmoor Psychiatric Center • Deborah Lipstadt • Ella Fitzgerald • Fireplace • Forest Hills, Queens • Francis Lewis Boulevard • Fresh Pond Road (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line) • Gentrification • getting around • Grand Central Parkway • grandparent • Guide • Hell Gate Bridge • Hispanic • History • homes of jazz musicians • Housing authority • How and Why Wonder Books • How the Other Half Lives • Hurricane Sandy • In cold blood • Italians • Jackson Avenue (IRT White Plains Road Line) • Jahn's • Jamaica Avenue • Jamaica Bay • Kwanzaa • Lena Horne • Like Crazy • Linden Boulevard • Little Neck (LIRR station) • Long Island City • Long Island Rail Road • Louis Armstrong House Museum • Lower East Side • Martha Stewart • mexicans • Muckraker • Mural • My Father • nail salon • Narrow Street • neighborhoods • Neocolonialism • New Hyde Park • new people • New York • New York City • New York City Housing Authority • Northern Boulevard (IND Queens Boulevard Line) • Not for Sale (organization) • overcrowding • Parkway Village (Queens) • Persecution • Pogrom • Poles • political machine • Psychiatry • Queens • Queens Village (LIRR station) • Racism • residence • rikers island • Robbery • Rockaway Boulevard • Rockaway, Queens • Roosevelt Avenue • sensory deprivation • Shopping mall • Sightseeing • Sikh • Skinhead • Small Business • Snob • Springfield Boulevard • Sri Chinmoy • Statue • stucco • supermarket • Tax • taxidermy • The Bronx • Theft • The New York Times • things to do in Queens • things to see in Queens • Tour • Tourist • Trail • Travel • Unemployment • Union Turnpike (New York) • unmarked grave • Utopia Parkway (Queens) • Vandalism • Visitors • Walking • walks in Queens • walkway • what to do in Queens • Window blind • Woodhaven Boulevard (IND Queens Boulevard Line)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20002-5 / 0691200025
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20002-6 / 9780691200026