Waterfront A Walk Around Manhattan

Name: Waterfront A Walk Around Manhattan
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ISBN: 9780385497145

ISBN-10: 0385497148

ISBN-13: 9780385497145

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Authors: Phillip Lopate

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East Side, West Side, from the Little Red Lighthouse to Battery Park City, the wonders of Manhattan’s waterfront are both celebrated and secret–hidden in plain sight. In his brilliant exploration of this defining yet neglected shoreline, personal essayist Philip Lopate also recovers a part of the city’s soul. A native New Yorker, Lopate has embraced Manhattan by walking every inch of its perimeter, telling stories on the way of pirates (Captain Kidd) and power brokers (Robert Moses), the lowly shipworm and Typhoid Mary, public housing in Harlem and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. He evokes the magic of the once bustling old port from Melville’s and Whitman’s day to the era of the…

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List price: $21.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.26" wide x 8.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Phillip Lopate is a professor at Columbia University, where he directs the graduate nonfiction program.



Introduction


A Quick Start-Up of Mannahatta



The West Side



The Battery



Battery Park City



The World Trade Center



Excursus: The Harbor and the Old Port



Tribeca: The River Project



The Soho/Greenwich Village Corridor



Excursus: Outboard, or the Battle of Westway and Its Aftermath



Chelsea Piers, Chelsea, and Trocchi-Land



Excursus: Shipworms



From 42nd Street to Riverside South



Riverside Park and Manhattanville



Sewage Treatment Plant and Salsa Party



Washington Heights and Inwood



The East Side



Introduction: On the Aesthetics of Urban Walking and Writing



Captain Kidd and Pearl Street



Excursus: Sailors and Merchant Seamen in New York



The South Street Seaport and the Fulton Fish Market



Excursus: The Elusive Joseph Mitchell



The South Street Seaport (Continued)



The Brooklyn Bridge



Under the Bridges



Con Edisonland: From One Power Plant to Another



Excursus: Robert Moses, A. Revisionist Take



Tudor City, the United Nations, and the Upper East Side



East Harlem and Points North



Excursus: Ode to the Projects



North Brother Island



Highbridge Park



The Dilemma of Waterfront Development


Acknowledgments


Credits


Index