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James M. Lindgren - Preserving South Street Seaport: The Dream and Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District - 9781479822577 - V9781479822577
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Preserving South Street Seaport: The Dream and Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District

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Description for Preserving South Street Seaport: The Dream and Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District Hardback. Home to the original Fulton Fish Market and then the South Street Seaport Museum, it is one of the last neighborhoods of late 18th- and early 19th-century New York City not to be destroyed by urban development. This book tells the story, from the 1960s to the present, of the South Street Seaport District of Lower Manhattan. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; GM; HBJK; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 635.

Preserving South Street Seaport tells the fascinating story, from the 1960s to the present, of the South Street Seaport District of Lower Manhattan. Home to the original Fulton Fish Market and then the South Street Seaport Museum, it is one of the last neighborhoods of late 18th- and early 19th-century New York City not to be destroyed by urban development. In 1988, South Street Seaport became the city's #1 destination for visitors. Featuring over 40 archival and contemporary black-and-white photographs, this is the first history of a remarkable historic district and maritime museum.
Lindgren skillfully tells the complex ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
New York University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479822577
SKU
V9781479822577
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About James M. Lindgren
James M. Lindgren is Professor of History at SUNY Plattsburgh, and the author of Preserving the Old Dominion (1993) and Preserving Historic New England (1995).

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South Street Seaport Museum has lived as many lives as the proverbial cat, but it was born feral and has remained so to this day. James Lindgren . . . tracks the promise of what began in the 1960s as a grassroots movement to 1) preserve an evocative and colorful remnant of nineteenth-century New York, 2) let troubled young people ... Read more

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