Author: Thomas J. Campanella
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691208611
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today.
Brooklyn
Author: Thomas J. Campanella
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691208611
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691208611
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today.
The Brooklyn Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Money, Lies and Betrayal
Author: S. P. Pierce
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665510366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Money Lies and Betrayal is a story about Richie Bandz, a young man who has the world at his feet, a hustle guaranteed to make him rich and a weakness for women. In his pursuit of chasing money, Rich makes a series of bad choices and encounters numerous setbacks. When Rich meets K-Murder, all bets are off. She is infamous in the DMV area and known for putting in the work. Together Rich and K-Murder run up the bag and terrorize the community. Everything is love until Rich and his street family is victims of a home invasion causing K-Murder to seek street justice. No one will be safe in the streets until K-Murder gets pay back. “On God” The colorful relationships between the characters will leave you wanting more. www.sppiercebooks.com
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665510366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Money Lies and Betrayal is a story about Richie Bandz, a young man who has the world at his feet, a hustle guaranteed to make him rich and a weakness for women. In his pursuit of chasing money, Rich makes a series of bad choices and encounters numerous setbacks. When Rich meets K-Murder, all bets are off. She is infamous in the DMV area and known for putting in the work. Together Rich and K-Murder run up the bag and terrorize the community. Everything is love until Rich and his street family is victims of a home invasion causing K-Murder to seek street justice. No one will be safe in the streets until K-Murder gets pay back. “On God” The colorful relationships between the characters will leave you wanting more. www.sppiercebooks.com
The Betrayal
Author: Charles Fountain
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199795134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A new account of one of the most famous scandals in sports history shows how the 1919 fixing of the World Series forever changed the way America's pastime was both managed and perceived.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199795134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A new account of one of the most famous scandals in sports history shows how the 1919 fixing of the World Series forever changed the way America's pastime was both managed and perceived.
A Tale of Three Cities
Author: Steven Travers
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597974315
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Nineteen sixty-two—it's been called “the end of innocence,” as America witnessed the Cuban Missile Crisis and the following year saw the Kennedy assassination and the early stirrings of Vietnam. In baseball, 1962 was a thrilling season. Five years prior the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had migrated west to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, leaving New York to the Yankees. In 1962, those same Giants and Dodgers faced off to see who would advance to the World Series. Waiting to do battle were the Yankees, who were also battling for allegiance in New York with the Mets' debut. The old Subway Series had gone cross-country. Just as it was the end of innocence, it was an end of an era for the Yankees. Winners of eleven World Series titles in twenty years, they would go fifteen years— a record for the modern-era Bombers at the time—until their next championship. They appeared in the next two World Series, but by the end of the decade it was those upstart Mets amazin' fans. The Dodgers would break through the following year and again in 1965 while the Giants—convinced they'd be back many times— have yet to win a title on the West Coast. Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford, Willie Mays and Willie McCovey, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, Casey Stengel. Steven Travers details Hollywood's adoration of the Dodgers, San Francisco's battle between inferiority and superiority, and New York, rulers of sport and society, experiencing the beginnings of a changing of the guard. Three cities, five teams, and one great year are all here in A Tale of Three Cities.
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597974315
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Nineteen sixty-two—it's been called “the end of innocence,” as America witnessed the Cuban Missile Crisis and the following year saw the Kennedy assassination and the early stirrings of Vietnam. In baseball, 1962 was a thrilling season. Five years prior the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had migrated west to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, leaving New York to the Yankees. In 1962, those same Giants and Dodgers faced off to see who would advance to the World Series. Waiting to do battle were the Yankees, who were also battling for allegiance in New York with the Mets' debut. The old Subway Series had gone cross-country. Just as it was the end of innocence, it was an end of an era for the Yankees. Winners of eleven World Series titles in twenty years, they would go fifteen years— a record for the modern-era Bombers at the time—until their next championship. They appeared in the next two World Series, but by the end of the decade it was those upstart Mets amazin' fans. The Dodgers would break through the following year and again in 1965 while the Giants—convinced they'd be back many times— have yet to win a title on the West Coast. Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford, Willie Mays and Willie McCovey, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, Casey Stengel. Steven Travers details Hollywood's adoration of the Dodgers, San Francisco's battle between inferiority and superiority, and New York, rulers of sport and society, experiencing the beginnings of a changing of the guard. Three cities, five teams, and one great year are all here in A Tale of Three Cities.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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The Great Brooklyn Romance
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Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Index to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Pages : 468
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Bitter In The Mouth
Author: Monique Truong
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446499138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Growing up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the '70s and '80s, Linda Hammerick knows that she is different. She has strong, almost paralysing associations between words and tastes; she doesn't look like everyone else; and she isn't popular at school. She finds her way through life with the help of her great uncle 'Baby' Harper, who loves her and loves to dance, and her best friend fat-thin-fat Kelly with whom she has been exchanging letters since they were seven. But then a tragedy and a revelation will make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446499138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Growing up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the '70s and '80s, Linda Hammerick knows that she is different. She has strong, almost paralysing associations between words and tastes; she doesn't look like everyone else; and she isn't popular at school. She finds her way through life with the help of her great uncle 'Baby' Harper, who loves her and loves to dance, and her best friend fat-thin-fat Kelly with whom she has been exchanging letters since they were seven. But then a tragedy and a revelation will make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
Playing the Field
Author: Charles C. Euchner
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801849732
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Can a sports franchise "blackmail" a city into getting what it wants—a new stadium, say, or favorable leasing terms—by threatening to relocate? In 1982, the owners of the Chicago White Sox pledged to keep the team in Chicago if the city approved a $5-million tax-exempt bond to finance construction of luxury suites at Comiskey Park. The city council approved it. A few years later, when Comiskey Park was in need of renovation, the owners threatened to move the team to Florida unless a new stadium was built. A site was chosen near the old stadium, property condemned, residents evicted, and a new stadium built. "We had to make threats," the owners said. "If we didn't have the threat of moving, we wouldn't have gotten the deal." "Sports is not a dominant industry in any city," writes Charles Euchner, "yet it receives the kind of attention one might expect to be lavished on major producers and employers." In Playing the Field, Euchner looks at why sports attracts this kind of attention and what that says about the urban political process. Examining the relationships between Los Angeles and the Raiders, Baltimore and the Colts and the Orioles, and Chicago and the White Sox, Euchner argues that, in the absence of public standards for equitable arbitration between cities and teams, the sports industry has the ability to steer negotiations in a way that leaves cities vulnerable. According to Euchner, this greater leverage of sports franchises is due, at least in part, to their overall economic insignificance. Since the demands of a franchise do not directly affect many interest groups, opponents of stadium projects have difficulty developing coalitions to oppose them. The result is that civic leaders tend to succumb to the blackmail tactics of professional sports, rather than developing and supporting sound economic policies.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801849732
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Can a sports franchise "blackmail" a city into getting what it wants—a new stadium, say, or favorable leasing terms—by threatening to relocate? In 1982, the owners of the Chicago White Sox pledged to keep the team in Chicago if the city approved a $5-million tax-exempt bond to finance construction of luxury suites at Comiskey Park. The city council approved it. A few years later, when Comiskey Park was in need of renovation, the owners threatened to move the team to Florida unless a new stadium was built. A site was chosen near the old stadium, property condemned, residents evicted, and a new stadium built. "We had to make threats," the owners said. "If we didn't have the threat of moving, we wouldn't have gotten the deal." "Sports is not a dominant industry in any city," writes Charles Euchner, "yet it receives the kind of attention one might expect to be lavished on major producers and employers." In Playing the Field, Euchner looks at why sports attracts this kind of attention and what that says about the urban political process. Examining the relationships between Los Angeles and the Raiders, Baltimore and the Colts and the Orioles, and Chicago and the White Sox, Euchner argues that, in the absence of public standards for equitable arbitration between cities and teams, the sports industry has the ability to steer negotiations in a way that leaves cities vulnerable. According to Euchner, this greater leverage of sports franchises is due, at least in part, to their overall economic insignificance. Since the demands of a franchise do not directly affect many interest groups, opponents of stadium projects have difficulty developing coalitions to oppose them. The result is that civic leaders tend to succumb to the blackmail tactics of professional sports, rather than developing and supporting sound economic policies.