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**Audubon Park’s journey from farmland to cityscape** The study of Audubon Park’s origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban community, an examination of the relationship between people and the land they inhabit. When John James Audubon bought fourteen acres of northern Manhattan farmland in 1841, he set in motion a chain of events that moved forward inexorably to the streetscape that emerged seven decades later. The story of how that happened makes up the pages of __The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the__ __Families Who Shaped It__. This fully illustrated history peels back the many layers of a rural society evolving into an urban community, enlivened by the people who propelled it forward: property owners, tenants, laborers, and servants. __The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot__ tells the intricate tale of how individual choices in the face of family dysfunction, economic crises, technological developments, and the myriad daily occurrences that elicit personal reflection and change of course pushed Audubon Park forward to the cityscape that distinguishes the neighborhood today. A longtime evangelist for Man

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Author

Matthew Spady

Publisher

Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823289431

Category

nonfiction