Going Coastal Reader’s Club
The Booklist for Travelers, Sybarites, Naturalists and Book CollectorsNovel Captures New York
A large, protected harbor and a river route to the north made the tip of Manhattan an attractive spot for a Dutch settlement some 400 years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
A Military Past, an Unknown Future
THE Smothers Brothers were born there. It’s where Joe Louis took his Army physical. David Rockefeller once painted its restrooms. “It” is Governors Island, a 172-acre site, rich in history, that sits off the southern tip of Manhattan. Read the rest of this entry »
‘My River Chronicles’ author DuLong engineers a life change
ABOARD THE JOHN J. HARVEY IN NEW YORK HARBOR — Up on deck, a group of inner-city kids — most have never before been on the Hudson River — squeal in delight, getting drenched by water. Read the rest of this entry »
Pier Pressure
.On the Irish Waterfront
By James T. Fisher
Cornell University Press, 370 pages, $29.95A tough fight against corruption and the movie that tried to capture it all. It may be hard for some to imagine an era when the waterfronts clustered around New York City constituted America’s dominant commercial port. Yet as late as the 1950s the region’s 900 piers—spread over Manhattan’s West Side, Read the rest of this entry »
In 2 visions, a blueprint to a livable city
She was the housewife from Scranton, a mother of three with no college degree, who moved to New York and fell in love with its old neighborhoods, became a savvy community activist and at the same time wrote a book, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,’’ which forever changed our understanding of cities. Read the rest of this entry »
Governors Island: The Jewel of New York Harbor
Governors Island
The Jewel of New York Harbor
By Ann L. Buttenwieser Read the rest of this entry »
Waterways of War: The Struggle for Empire 1754-1763, A Traveler’s Guide to the French & Indian War Forts and Battlefields along America’s Byways in New York and Pennsylvania
A new guidebook to 19 French and Indian War historic sites invites travelers to follow three state and nationally-designated byways to forts, battlegrounds and freshwater destinations in New York and Pennsylvania. Read the rest of this entry »
Borne on a Black Current
Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man’s Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science
by Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano
HarperCollins Publishers
The seas are full of the cast-offs of humanity, from tub toys that have fallen off container ships to boats swept away in storms to bottled messages deliberately set adrift. That flotsam has given oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer insight into marine currents and how they have influenced the course of history. I
Caddell Dry Dock: Shipshape on Staten Island for 106 years now
In her “The Great Port: A Passage Through New York” (1969), Jan Morris fixed her sharp foreign eye (she’s Welsh) on the waterfront, a place New Yorkers only thought about if they couldn’t avoid it. Read the rest of this entry »
American Passage
AMERICAN PASSAGE
The History of Ellis Island
By Vincent J. Cannato Read the rest of this entry »
