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Lädt ... Biography of a Tenement House in New York City (2006)von Andrew S. Dolkart
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"I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower," writes Andrew S. Dolkart. "Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, but to the more prosaic tenement on the southeast corner of East Broadway and Clinton Street named the Mayflower, where my father was born in 1914 to Russian-Jewish immigrants." For Dolkart, his father's experience of being raised in a tenement became a metaphor for the life that was afforded countless immigrant children growing up in Lower Manhattan during the past century. In this revised edition of his classic book, Dolkart presents for us a precise and informative biography of a typical tenement house in New York City that became, in 1988, the site for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. The author documents, analyzes, and interprets the architectural and social history of this building at 97 Orchard Street, beginning in the 1860s when it was erected, moving on to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the neighborhood started to change, and concluding in the present day as the building is reincarnated as the museum. This edition includes new research on the basement storefronts (specifically the Schneider saloon and the kosher butcher), the backyard privies and their reconstruction, and the new Irish Moore apartment. Biography of a Tenement House in New York City is a lasting tribute to the legacy of immigrants and their children, who were part of the transformation of New York City and the fabric of everyday American urban life. Distributed for the Center for American Places at ColumbiaCollege Chicago Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I picked it up after a visit to the Tenement Museum on the lower East Side of Manhattan. The visit was great (if you're in NY you should definitely make the time to go). The book is equally great. It is of course really a history of immigration, especially of poor immigrants, into New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But it's also a history of building in NY at this time, especially in poor areas, and of social changes affecting what is considered to be adequate housing. It's all held together by reference to this particular building at 97 Orchard Street as it is built and changes over the years.
It's an easy read; short, concisely written, lots of pictures and illustrations. But also full of good information including vignettes of the people who lived in this particular building. Well worth reading if you enjoy architecture, social history, or maybe just seeing what life was like for your grandparents. ( )