Bay Ridge (Images of America) - Softcover

Bay Ridge Historical Society; Scarpa, Peter; Stelter, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738508705 ISBN 13: 9780738508702

Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Bay Ridge was once a rural community of farmhouses and summer cottages that sat on the banks of the East River. First known as Yellow Hook, it included the military post at Fort Hamilton. Where British troops once marched up the banks, commuters today traverse the Verrazano Bridge. Over the years, Bay Ridge has grown into a thriving, diverse neighborhood with a proud Brooklyn history. In Bay Ridge, the Bay Ridge Historical Society has collected images from days gone by to tell the stories of an earlier time. One of the most famous contributions comes from the photographs of Samuel Winter Thomas, a photographer who lived at 3rd Avenue and 75th Street. Gazing at his nineteenth-century photographs, we see the early, rural character of Bay Ridge. Throughout this volume, which contains over two hundred rare, never-before-published photographs, readers can look back into the faces of those who came before them, the early schools and places of worship, and the trolleys that took the earliest commuters to work.

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Authors Peter Scarpa, Lawrence Stelter, and Peter Syrdahl of the Bay Ridge Historical Society have performed extensive research to bring together this collection of rare photographs and the stories behind them.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0738508705
• ISBN 13: 9780738508702
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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