Forgotten Queens (Images of America) Through vintage photographs being seen by the public for the first time, the five wards of Queens are highlighted for their unique character and history. Forgotten Queens shows New York’s large
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| Title | : | Forgotten Queens (Images of America) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.74 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1467120650 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-09 |
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Editorial : About the Author
Legendary tour guide Kevin Walsh, whose blog, Forgotten New York, has twice been ranked by the Village Voice in their Best of NYC list, has partnered with the Greater Astoria Historical Society, a dynamic group known throughout New York City for their vigorous efforts in community preservation, lively programming, and imaginative history articles. This is the society’s sixth book with Arcadia Publishing.
In the early years of the 20th century, Queens County underwent an enormous transformation. The Queensboro Bridge of 1909 forever changed the landscape of this primarily rural area into the urban metropolis it is today. Forgotten Queens shows New York’s largest borough between the years 1920 and 1950, when it was adorned with some of the finest model housing and planned communities anywhere in the country. Victorian mansions, cookie-cutter row houses, fishing shacks, and beachside bungalows all coexisted next to workplaces and commercial areas. Beckoning with the torch of the new century and a bright promise for those who dared to pioneer its urban wilderness, Queens flourished as a community. Through vintage photographs being seen by the public for the first time, the five wards of Queens are highlighted for their unique character and history.
William McBride's book is accurately titled, although it needs to be understood that this is a social history of naval technological change, not technological history (nor economic history) per se. Good copy editing. Fortunately, there is not too much of this and most of the book is reasonably readable.
One regrettable distortion comes in his somewhat tortured discussion of the naval arms limitations treaties (the Five Power Treaty of 1921 and its 1930 and 1936 London Treaty sequels). I was surprised by the death in this book, as it wasn't who I expected it to be. Forgotten Queens. Despite popular culture, my only 'tattoo' is the residual scarring from my 1960s smallpox vaccine, one the few vaccines required for admission to public elementary school. I found it to be a very smooth transition into the new routine.
Why the high rating from me? I am now exercising 6 days per week and enjoying it. Few who have studied the issue carefully would agree with him -- some y
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