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The thread of Jackie's life reflects the central theme of the Dutch period, the rebellion of the common people against their rulers, the Dutch West India Company and its Directors, a conflict historians argue laid the foundation for the pluralistic, freedom-loving society that America became.
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Please try again later. Create a New Idea List. Much fiction set in NYC portrays the city as more than simply a benign backdrop. It is alive with its own personality and presence. This Listmania includes a handful of such novels. Magical realism epic set in a mythical late 19th century NYC and follows a series of interconnected "heroic" lives.
Described as a "paean to. Set in depression era s. Features a group of working-class, Irish immigrant construction workers building the grandest of all projects: Magical realism novel features an immortal Irish immigrant who must never leave the island of Manhattan. Set 's to through the slav. Features include "Sigmund Freud's pioneering work on psychoanalysis, William Shakespear. The Interpretation of Murder: Gritty novel set in primarily Greenwich Village in the s through 70s. Features the "Bohemian" lifestyles of the inhabitant friends.
Set in 18th century Brooklyn. Features the story of a woman and her vision: Historical fiction family saga set in the mid s, of the Dutch settlers of "New Netherlands". Features the Holland born Waldron family, w. Seeds of the Big Apple.
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Four classic novellas portray upper class manners and mores in New York from the s through s. See also Wharton's "The Age of Innoce. Set in 's NYC and features the intertwined lives of otherwise random individuals. Rare and centuries-old liturgical objects, manuscripts, maps and other historic artifacts—including a Torah scroll rescued from the hands of British troops during the American Revolution — will be on loan to the New-York Historical Society beginning November 11, , for the installations The Resilient City and Treasures of Shearith Israel.
The presentations of Treasures of Shearith Israel and The Resilient City at the renovated and transformed New-York Historical highlight the history of religious freedom in New York City and honor the first Jewish congregation to have been established in North America—a congregation that remains vibrant and active today, and is a neighbor of New-York Historical. The congregation met in rented quarters until , when it constructed its first building, which was located in downtown Manhattan on Mill Street now known as South William Street.
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The plan has demonstrated remarkable longevity as well as the flexibility to adapt to two centuries of unforeseeable change, including modifications such as Broadway and Central Park. The real miracle of the plan was that it was enforced. The exhibition will showcase the illustrious—most notably, John Randel, Jr. Between and Randel measured the lines of streets and avenues at right angles to each other, and recorded distances and details about the island, its features, and its inhabitants. This resulted in a manuscript map of the grid plan, which he completed by March Randel continued surveying the island from to , setting marble monuments one of which will be on view in the exhibition- there were to have been 1, to mark the intersections of the coming grid.
Between and Randel drafted a series of 91 large-scale maps of the island, now known as the Randel Farm Maps ten of which will be on view. Passed April 3, Other colorful figures will be highlighted, including William M. Other rare and exquisitely detailed maps dating from to the present will be on view, alongside stunning archival photographs portraying the island of Manhattan throughout various stages of excavation.
An extraordinary street-by-street explanation of the plan in the words of the commissioners—Gouverneur Morris, Simeon De Witt, and John Rutherfurd—will be on view as will other historic documents, plans, prints, and more. The merits of the grid will be debated. Historians have viewed it as the emblem of democracy, with blocks that are equal and no inherently privileged sites.
Historians have also praised its utility, its neat subdivisions that support real estate development. The grid manifests Cartesian ideals of order, with streets and avenues that are numbered rather than named for trees, people, or places. Frederick Law Olmsted bemoaned its dumb utility and lack of monuments and other features. The Greatest Grid will reframe ideas about New York, revealing the plan to be much more than a layout of streets and avenues.
The grid provided a framework that balanced public order with private initiative. New proposals for the city, the results of a competition, will be on view in a separate, related exhibition co-sponsored by the Architectural League. The exhibition is accompanied by a companion book of the same title, co-published by the Museum of the City of New York and Columbia University Press.
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, conceived of the exhibition, is its curator, and is the editor of the companion book.