The New Brooklyn - 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 New Brooklyn write by Kay S. Hymowitz. This book was released on 2017-01-22. The New Brooklyn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featured in The New York Times Book Review Only a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by television programs such as “The Honeymooners” and “Welcome Back, Kotter”—comedies about working-class sensibilities, deprivation, and struggles. Today, the borough across the East River from Manhattan is home to trendsetters, celebrities, and enough “1 percenters” to draw the Occupy Wall Street protests across the Brooklyn Bridge. “Tres Brooklyn,” has become a compliment among gourmands in Parisian restaurants. In The New Brooklyn, Kay Hymowitz chronicles the dramatic transformation of the once crumbling borough. Devoting separate chapters to Park Slope, Williamsburg, Bed Stuy and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Hymowitz identifies the government policies and young, educated white and black middle class enclaves responsible for creating thousands of new businesses, safe and lively streets, and one of the most desirable urban environments in the world. Exploring Brownsville, the growing Chinatown of Sunset Park, and Caribbean Canarsie, Hymowitz also wrestles with the question of whether the borough’s new wealth can lift up long disadvantaged minorities, and the current generation of immigrants, many of whom will need more skills than their predecessors to thrive in a postindustrial economy. The New Brooklyn’s portraits of dramatic urban transformation, and its sometimes controversial effects, offers prescriptions relevant to “phoenix” cities coming back to life across the United States and beyond its borders.
Bernie's Brooklyn
Bernie's Brooklyn - 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 Bernie's Brooklyn write by Theodore Hamm. This book was released on 2020-05-13. Bernie's Brooklyn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bernie Sanders' tilt at the US presidency has come under fire from an establishment that derides his social democratic policies as alien to the American way. But, as Ted Hamm reveals in this engaging and concise history, the sort of socialism Bernie advocates was commonplace in the Brooklyn where he grew up in the 1940s and 50s. Policies like free college tuition, rent control, and infrastructure projects including extensive public housing, parks and swimming pools were part of the New Deal city run by a progressive Mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, and supported by FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt. While Arthur Miller, resident in Brooklyn Heights, was staging Death of a Salesman, a play with which Bernie's dad closely identified, Woody Guthrie was penning his paeans to the American worker in Coney Island and Jackie Robinson was breaking the color bar on Ebbets Field in a Dodgers team yet to be relocated in California. Drawing deeply on interviews with his brother and friends, and delving skillfully into the history of the borough, Bernie's Brooklyn shows how, far from being an anomaly in US politics, Sanders' 2020 platform is rooted firmly in the progressivism of the New Deal.
The Red Hook Vol. 1: New Brooklyn
The Red Hook Vol. 1: New Brooklyn - 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 Red Hook Vol. 1: New Brooklyn write by Dean Haspiel. This book was released on 2018-06-06. The Red Hook Vol. 1: New Brooklyn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Ringo Award for Best Webcomic 2017, this book collects the first volume of THE RED HOOK, a super-thief who is bequeathed the Omni-fist of Altruism and transformed into a hero against his will a year after a sentient Brooklyn's heart is broken and physically secedes from America.
The New Brooklyn Business and Community Directory
The New Brooklyn Business and Community Directory - 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 New Brooklyn Business and Community Directory write by Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. This book was released on 1973. The New Brooklyn Business and Community Directory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Brooklyn!
Brooklyn! - 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 Brooklyn! write by Ellen Marie Snyder-Grenier. This book was released on 1996. Brooklyn! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lavishly illustrated with prints, paintings, memorabilia, and objects from The Brooklyn Historical Society's unparalleled collection, Brooklyn! will bring every reader closer to the Brooklyn of legend and fact.
