Ultan Lloyd Ultan, Olson Shelley Olson

Bronx (eBook, PDF)

The Ultimate Guide to New York City''s Beautiful Borough

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Often overlooked by most tourists and locals alike, the Bronx one of five boroughs that comprise the city of New York is rich in cultural and historical attractions. From the Bronx Zoo (the largest urban zoo in the United States) to the New York Botanical Garden (one of the most visited botanical gardens in the world), this borough has something for everyone. Visitors can explore historical locations (including where George Washington slept and where Edgar Allan Poe lived and worked), watch a game in one of the most famous baseball stadiums in the United States Yankee Stadium and sample delicious Italian food in New York s real Little Italy on Arthur Avenue and New England style seafood at City Island along the edge of Long Island Sound. Author and foremost historian of the Bronx Lloyd Ultan and educator Shelley Olson have teamed up to create a handy guidebook with detailed maps that will provide all the information prospective visitors need for planning their adventures to famous and little-known sites, including the hours, admission fees, and directions to featured attractions. The Bronx which includes thirty-six color photographs provides visitors with informative chapters on more than twelve of the borough s extraordinary destinations as well as self-guided walking tours of some of the most ethnically, architecturally, and historically diverse neighborhoods. History buffs will find beautifully preserved eighteenth- and nineteenth-century homes, the Hall of Fame for Great Americans (which pays homage to many familiar faces in American history), and Woodlawn Cemetery (the final resting place for prominent Americans including Duke Ellington, Joseph Pulitzer, Gloria Vanderbilt Whitney, and Thomas Nast). In addition to the botanical garden, nature lovers can enjoy the beautiful Pelham Bay Park and Van Cortlandt Park. The Bronx also highlights the surprising number of art galleries, museums, and performance venues that visitors are sure to enjoy, further demonstrating the borough s cultural prominence. .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813573212
• Artikelnr.: 55102278

Autorenporträt

LLOYD ULTAN holds the appointed government position of Bronx Borough Historian. He is a professor of history at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and the author of over 1,000 articles about the Bronx and ten books including The Northern Borough: A History of the Bronx, and The Birth of the Bronx, 1609–1900.     SHELLEY OLSON taught at the University of Houston, the University of North Carolina’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching, and Wake Forest before relocating to New York City, which inspired her to write this book.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Why Visit The Bronx?
 
Part I. Attractions
 
The New York Botanical Garden
The Bronx Zoo
Yankee Stadium
Wave Hill and the Mansions of Riverdale
Van Cortlandt Park and the Van Cortlandt House
The Bronx County Building: The Art of Democracy
The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage: Poverty and Poetry
Woodlawn Cemetery: Beauty for Eternity
The Valentine-Varian House: A Legacy of the Revolution
Pelham Bay Park: The Riviera of New York City
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
 
Part II. Walking Tours
 
City Island: New England in The Bronx
Belmont: New York’s Real Little Italy
The Grand Concourse Historic District: Art Deco Delights
Valentine to Poe: A Tour of Cultural Discovery
In the Footsteps of Edgar Allan Poe
Marvelous Mott Haven
Museums in The Bronx
Art Galleries in The Bronx
Professional Musical and Theatrical Performance Venues
Tours and Events
Where to Stay
 
Index