Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories write by Jerome Charyn. This book was released on 2015-06-01. Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award Brooklyn is dead. Long live the Bronx! In Bitter Bronx, Jerome Charyn returns to his roots and leads the literary renaissance of an oft-overlooked borough in this surprising new collection. In Bitter Bronx, one of our most gifted and original novelists depicts a world before and after modern urban renewal destroyed the gritty sanctity of a land made famous by Ruth, Gehrig, and Joltin' Joe. Bitter Bronx is suffused with the texture and nostalgia of a lost time and place, combining a keen eye for detail with Jerome Charyn's lived experience. These stories are informed by a childhood growing up near that middle-class mecca, the Grand Concourse; falling in love with three voluptuous librarians at a public library in the Lower Depths of the South Bronx; and eating at Mafia-owned restaurants along Arthur Avenue's restaurant row, amid a "land of deprivation…where fathers trundled home…with a monumental sadness on their shoulders." In "Lorelei," a lonely hearts grifter returns home and finds his childhood sweetheart still living in the same apartment house on the Concourse; in "Archy and Mehitabel" a high school romance blossoms around a newspaper comic strip; in "Major Leaguer" a former New York Yankee confronts both a gang of drug dealers and the wreckage that Robert Moses wrought in his old neighborhood; and in three interconnected stories—"Silk & Silk," "Little Sister," and "Marla"—Marla Silk, a successful Manhattan attorney, discovers her father's past in the Bronx and a mysterious younger sister who was hidden from her, kept in a fancy rest home near the Botanical Garden. In these stories and others, the past and present tumble together in Charyn's singular and distinctly "New York prose, street-smart, sly, and full of lurches" (John Leonard, New York Times). Throughout it all looms the "master builder" Robert Moses, a man who believed he could "save" the Bronx by building a highway through it, dynamiting whole neighborhoods in the process. Bitter Bronx stands as both a fictional eulogy for the people and places paved over by Moses' expressway and an affirmation of Charyn's "brilliant imagination" (Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago Tribune).
South Bronx Battles
South Bronx Battles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook South Bronx Battles write by Carolyn McLaughlin. This book was released on 2019-05-21. South Bronx Battles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Community activist Carolyn McLaughlin takes us on a journey of the South Bronx through the eyes of its community members. Facing burned-out neighborhoods of the 1970s, the community fought back. McLaughlin illustrates the spirit of the community in creating a vibrant, diverse culture and its decades-long commitment to develop nonprofit housing and social-services, and to advocate for better education, health care, and a healthier environment. For the South Bronx to remain a safe haven for poor families, maintaining affordable housing is the central—but most challenging—task. South Bronx Battles is the comeback story of a community that was once in crisis but now serves as a beacon for other cities to rebuild, while keeping their neighborhoods affordable.
Just Kids From the Bronx
Just Kids From the Bronx - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Kids From the Bronx write by Arlene Alda. This book was released on 2015-03-03. Just Kids From the Bronx available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A down-to-earth, inspiring book about the American promise fulfilled." —President Bill Clinton "Fascinating . . . . Made me wish I had been born in the Bronx." —Barbara Walters A touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's most influential boroughs—the Bronx—through some of its many success stories The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda's Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the place that bred the influencers in just about every field of endeavor today. The Bronx is where Michael Kay, the New York Yankees' play-by-play broadcaster, first experienced baseball, where J. Crew's CEO Millard (Mickey) Drexler found his ambition, where Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dava Sobel fell in love with science early on and where music-making inspired hip hop's Grandmaster Melle Mel to change the world of music forever. The parks, the pick-up games, the tough and tender mothers, the politics, the gangs, the food—for people who grew up in the Bronx, childhood recollections are fresh. Arlene Alda's own Bronx memories were a jumping-off point from which to reminisce with a nun, a police officer, an urban planner, and with Al Pacino, Mary Higgins Clark, Carl Reiner, Colin Powell, Maira Kalman, Bobby Bonilla, and many other leading artists, athletes, scientists and entrepreneurs—experiences spanning six decades of Bronx living. Alda then arranged these pieces of the past, from looking for violets along the banks of the Bronx River to the wake-up calls from teachers who recognized potential, into one great collective story, a film-like portrait of the Bronx from the early twentieth century until today.
The Names and Addresses of the Woters for the Communist Party Ticket in the 1936 General Election of the Boroughs of New York City
The Names and Addresses of the Woters for the Communist Party Ticket in the 1936 General Election of the Boroughs of New York City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Names and Addresses of the Woters for the Communist Party Ticket in the 1936 General Election of the Boroughs of New York City write by Estados Unidos. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944). This book was released on 1936. The Names and Addresses of the Woters for the Communist Party Ticket in the 1936 General Election of the Boroughs of New York City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bronx Zoo write by Sparky Lyle. This book was released on 2005. The Bronx Zoo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The former "New York Times" bestseller is now available in trade paperback a quarter century after Golenbock's detailed examination of the 1979 New York Yankees World Series championship became hailed as one of the best baseball books written.
