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Publisher: First Books
ISBN: 0912301600
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Author: Mike Livingston
Publisher: First Books
ISBN: 0912301570
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: First Books
Publisher: Firstbooks.com
ISBN: 9781937090593
Category : Moving, Household
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book is dedicated to the proposition that living in New York City is something extraordinary and wonderful. However, the transition from newcomer to New Yorker isn¿t necessarily achieved without some discomfort. To minimize the difficulties involved in moving to the Big Apple, we have written the Newcomer¿s Handbook® for Moving to and Living in New York City, which has been continually updated since its 1980 inception, in order to keep up with change in this fastest-paced of cities. These pages will help you navigate this magnificent city and set you on the path to becoming a New Yorker yourself. Whether you are looking for the right neighborhood, the right health club, the right synagogue, or simply a quiet, green oasis, these chapters will guide you in your search.

Author: Jack Finnegan
Publisher: First Books
ISBN: 0912301724
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: Elizabeth Caperton-Halvorson
Publisher: First Books
ISBN: 9780912301679
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: Shawne Taylor
Publisher: First Books
ISBN: 9780912301617
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Author: Sabrina Crawford
Publisher: First Books
ISBN: 9780912301631
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Author: Helen Thorpe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501159097
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Traces the lives of twenty-two immigrant teens throughout the course of a year at Denver's South High School who attended a specially created English Language Acquisition class and who were helped to adapt through strategic introductions to American culture.

Author: First Books
Publisher: Firstbooks.com
ISBN: 9781937090289
Category : Moving, Household
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Called "invaluable and highly recommended" by Library Journal, these best-selling relocation guidebooks in the USA feature in-depth neighborhood and community profiles, as well as chapters on getting settled, helpful services, childcare and education, transportation and more.

Author: Robert W. Snyder
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"—the home of the nation's largest Dominican community. The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City's long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses. Crossing Broadway is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan's journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway—over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born—and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.