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Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua.
Subjects
Names, Geographical -- New York (State) -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- Historical geography.
New York (N.Y.) -- History.
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Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua.
Names, Geographical -- New York (State) -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- Historical geography.
New York (N.Y.) -- History.
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Names
of
New
York
: discovering the city's past, present, and future through its place
names
/ Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.
by
Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua.
Pantheon Books, 2021.
Call #:
974.71 J48n
Subjects
Names
,
Geographical
--
New
York
(
State
)
--
New
York
.
New
York
(N.Y.)
--
Historical geography.
New
York
(N.Y.)
--
History.
ISBN:
9781524748920 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
243 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"From the coauthor of the award-winning Nonstop Metropolis
--
a short, fascinating journey into the past, present, and future of
New
York
City through its place
names
and the stories they contain. Drawing on his background in cultural geography, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro excavates the wealth of stories that are embedded in
New
York
City's place
names
and uses them to illuminate the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place. He traces the ways that the native Lenape, the Dutch settlers, the British invaders, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on the island and continue to reshape it. He explores how many
New
York
place
names
have accrued iconic significance far beyond the city's boundaries; for example, 'Brooklyn' is the name of a notorious street gang in Haiti, of restaurants from
New
Zealand to Paris, and of thousands of children (it is among the top fifty girl's
names
in America). He interviews the last living speaker of Lenape, tours the harbor's many 'out-islands' with a tugboat captain, and meets the linguists at the Endangered Language Alliance who study the estimated eight hundred languages now spoken in
New
York
. And he makes clear that as immigrants and marginalized groups continue to find
new
ways to make the city's streets and boroughs their own, the
names
that adhere to the landscape function not only as portals to explore the past but as a means to reimagine what's possible now"--Publisher.
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