| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part One: The West Side -- 1. The Battery -- 2. Battery park city -- 3. The World Trade Center -- 4. Excursus: the Harbor and the Old Port -- 5. Tribeca: the River Project -- 6. The Soho/Greenwich Village Corridor -- 7. Excursus: Outboard, or the Battle of Westway and its Aftermath -- 8. Chelsea, Chelsea Piers and Trocchi-Land -- 9. Excursus: Shipworms -- 10. From Forty-Second Street to Riverside South -- 11. Riverside Park and Manhattanville -- 12.The Sewage Treatment Plant and Salsa Party -- 13. Washington Heights and Inwood -- Part Two: The East Side 14. Introduction: On the aesthetics of urban walking and writing -- 15. Captain Kidd and Pearl Street -- 16. Excursus: Sailors and Merchant Seamen in New York -- 17. The South Street Seaport and the Fulton Fish Market -- 18. Excursus: The Elusive Joseph Mitchell -- 19. The South Street Seaport, continued -- 20.The Brooklyn Bridge -- 21. Under the bridges -- 22. Con Edisonland: from one power plant to another -- 23. Excursus: Robert Moses, a Revisionist take -- 24.Tudor City, the United Nations and the Upper East Side -- 25. East Harlem and Points North -- 26. Excursus: Ode to the Projects -- 27. North Brother Island -- 28. Highbridge Park -- 29. The dilemma of Waterfront development. |
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Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Description and travel.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel.
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Waterfronts -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Walking -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Lopate, Phillip, 1943- -- Travel -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Tours.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Tours.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Lopate, Phillip, 1943- Waterfront. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2004 (OCoLC)653398947 |
| ISBN |
0609605054 hardcover |
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9780609605059 hardcover |
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