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Title: The Lower East Side Remembered & Revisited by Joyce Mendelsohn ISBN: 0-9708685-0-2 Publisher: Lower East Side Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Lower East Side - Remembered and Revisited
Comment: Joyce Mendelsohn gives an excellent walking tour of the Lower East Side pointing out landmarks with interesting facts and accurate accounts of the rich history here. Anyone who lives on the Lower East Side or whose relatives came from the Lower East Side should read this book complete with period and modern photographs. I loved it.
Rating: 5
Summary: The City today and yesterday
Comment: This is an essential book for anyone who lives in or plans to visit New York City. The first 22 pages give a succinct but by no means shallow history of immigration to New York, beginning with the earliest slaves arriving in New Amsterdam in 1626 to the latest arrivals of Hispanics and Asians in the later years of the 20th century. The remainder of the book consists of four self-guided walking tours, each approximately 2 hours long, through 4 different neighborhoods of the Lower East Side. The description of each tour begins with directions for arriving at the starting point by public transportation--a helpful bit of information. Among the various sites on the tour are the birthplace of Eddie Cantor, the first municipal-built playground in the U.S., the place where Arthur Murry took his first dance steps, the library that Leon Trostsky used when he lived in NY in 1917, and the Wah Mei Bird Garden, where caged Asian song thrushes fill the morning air with song. The book is small enough to carry around easily. The index is especially good. The photographs, new and old, give a sense of the city both today and yesterday. This is a friendly book.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Slice of Story Please
Comment: Even if you can't visit the bakeries and restaurants of the Lower East Side (and you should) you can enjoy the ethnic flavors by reading Joyce Mendelsohn's book. Like the best historians, she tells stories of the past from a present-day perspective. New York is a city of remakes, architectural and cultural--Mendelsohn combines both. As a former History teacher, I recommend it for a good read.
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Title: The Lower East Side Jews : An Immigrant Generation by Ronald Sanders ISBN: 0486409015 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 24 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Lower East Side Memories : A Jewish Place in America by Hasia R. Diner ISBN: 0691095450 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 11 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side by Bella Spewack, Ruth Limmer ISBN: 1558611533 Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum by Tyler Anbinder ISBN: 0452283612 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side by Raymond Bial ISBN: 0618138498 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 26 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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