Williamsburg (NY) (Images of America)

Type

Book

Authors

Victor Lederer

Brooklyn Historical Society

ISBN 10

0738537926

ISBN 13

9780738537924

Tags

History, Travel, State & Local, Pictorial

Description

There is no New York neighborhood that boasts a richer history or more exciting present than Williamsburg. At first a quiet waterside community, Williamsburg briefly became a wealthy suburb of Manhattan in the middle of the nineteenth century. Heavy industrialization and a tidal wave of immigrants later turned Williamsburg into New York’s poorest, most crowded quarter. With images drawn chiefly from the rich photographic collection of the Brooklyn Historical Society, Williamsburg illustrates the neighborhood’s transformation from one of New York’s most impoverished and least fashionable neighborhoods to a modern-day example of the city’s capacity for self-renewal. - from Amzon

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