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East Harlem
By Christopher Bell - 2003 - 128 pages
Since the early 1800s, East Harlem has welcomed immigrants: African Americans, Irish, Germans, European Jews, Italians, Scandinavians, Puerto Ricans, and Latinos are among the ethnic groups who have shaped this neighborhood, bringing with them their religious, social, and culinary traditions. Photographs of the iron, stone, and rubber factories, the tenements, the 100th Street community, famous politicians such as Fiorella LaGuardia, the 2nd and 3rd Avenue elevated subways, St. Cecilia's, and many other subjects.
Go Green East Harlem Cookbook
By Scott M. Stringer (Editor) 2008
Celebrate great food and healthy eating with the residents of East Harlem. Restaurants, caterers, farmers' markets, members of community groups and a group of darned good cooks, with the help of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, have pooled their resources to come up with scrumptious recipes that can also boast health benefits. From Greenmarket's tangy peach-corn salsa, to Mo-Bay's delicious collard greens, to Rao's famous Lemon Chicken, ending with Debbie Quinones lovely limbel de el Caribe, Go Green East Harlem covers the map when it comes to world cuisine.
And I Haven’t Had a Bad Day Since—From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress
By Congressman Charles B. Rangel - 2007
Rep. Charles Rangel’s autobiography is to encounter the famous community through the eyes of one of its favorite sons—warts and all. And to follow Rangel’s remarkable career to a perch of power as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is to witness, to some degree, the nation’s political history over the last 50 years.
East 100th Street
Bruce Davidson, 2003
Photographs of East 100th Street taken in the early 1960s. Exquisite cloth-bound hardcover
with tipped-in image and clear acetate dustcover. St. Ann's Press, 12.25x11.25", 145 tri-tone plates.
Barrio Dreams : Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City
by Arlene Davila, 2004
Analyzing the simultaneous gentrification and Latinization of what is known as El Barrio
or Spanish Harlem, Barrio Dreams makes a compelling case that dreams of economic
empowerment are never devoid of distinct racial and ethnic considerations.
Teacher With A Heart:
Reflections on Leonard Covello and Community
Vito Perrone Foreword by Herbert Kohl
Between Teacher & Text Series Pub Date: 1998, 160 pages

Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community
by David L. Kirp - Social Science - 2001 - 360 pages
School Choice Really Means: Fact and PR in East Harlem on
STANDARD-ISSUE maps of Manhattan, ... To the north of Ninety-sixth Street lies East Harlem. ...
Mediaspace: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age
2004 - 320 pages. (Vista Media, ‘Hispanic American Marketing')
In recent years, New York's East Harlem, also known as ‘El Barrio',
an historically important stronghold of ...
Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on Heritage
edited by Mary Hufford - Social Science - 1994
Casitas: Rincón Criollo, Bronx Villa Puerto Rico, East Harlem Local Landmarks
House under the roller coaster, Coney Island Parachute jump, Coney Island Adam ...
Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places: Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America
edited by Daniel D Arreola - 2004 - 344 pages
A neighborhood where the invasion may be seen as a threat is East Harlem, “El Barrio.”
Here, boarded-up storefronts are reopening as Mexican-owned and ...
Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights
edited by William Flores, Rina Benmayor - 1998 - 322 pages
Six Claiming Cultural Citizenship in East Harlem:
“Si Esto Puede Ayudar a la Comunidad ...
Pioneros: Puerto Ricans in New York City
by Felix V Matos Rodriguez - 2001 - 128 pages
Puerto Ricans created their colonias, or neighborhoods, in the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, the Lower East Side, the West Side, and East Harlem.
The Life of Langston Hughes
by Arnold Rampersad - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 576 pages
And visitors from overseas continued to climb the steps at 20 East 127th ...
For a Harlem bank, the Carver Federal Savings and Loan, he supervised the ...
Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York
by Evan T Pritchard - History - 2003 - 320 pages
West and becomes Fifth Avenue, which runs along the east side of Central Park.
... to the middle of Central Park's northern end, at Harlem Meet, and beyond. ...
La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience
by Jerre Mangione - History - 1993 - 560 pages
Vito Marcantonio, an East Harlem congressman from 1934 to 1948, was one of the
last great Italian American radicals. ...
Revolution at the Table
by Harvey Levenstein - History - 2003 - 285 pages
... Covello remembered growing up as an Italian immigrant boy in east Harlem, ...
crusty bread of southern Italy—regarded the white bread served in their ...
The Great Mayor: Fiorello Laguardia and the Making of the City of New York
by Alyn Brodsky - 2003 - 544 pages
He had his eyes on his old friend Isaac Siegel's Twentieth (East Harlem), the
city's largest halo-American congressional district. ...
Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician, 1902-1954
by Gerald Meyer - Political Science - 1989 - 303 pages
In 1944 the New York State Legislature expanded his Congressional district to
include Yorkville, an area south of East Harlem whose major ethnic ...
Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background
by Paul Avrich - History - 1996 - 278 pages
... Group of East Harlem bears witness to his gifts as an informer. Wherever he
went—Boston and Providence, Paterson and New York—he succeeded in ...
Burt Lancaster: An American Life
by Kate Buford - 2001 - 488 pages
The Bronx, East Harlem was a place you left. This consciousness of being a
holdover in the old ... and only a handful of these lived in East Harlem. ...
For Girls Only: Making a Case for Single-Sex Schooling
by Janice L Streitmatter - Education - 1999 - 192 pages
Young Women's Leadership Academy The debate about another school, East Harlem
Young Women's Leadership Academy, may embody many of the issues ...
Gender and Computers: Understanding the Digital Divide
by Joel Cooper, Kimberlee D. Weaver - Social Science - 2003
Consider the Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem, for instance.
... secondary school located in East Harlem, New York.
Second Language Syntax
by Roger Hawkins - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 432 pages
... One group consisted of 30 Puerto Rican children in New York City, who had
lived in the US for a year or less (the ‘East Harlem' group). ...
Puerto Rican Students in U.S. Schools
edited by Sonia Nieto - Education - 2000 - 354 pages
District 4 in the East Harlem section of New York City for more than 20 years.
... Community Control East Harlem has had a tradition of progressive ...
Teaching Tomorrow's Medicine Today: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1963-2003
by Barbara J Niss, Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. - Medical - 2005 - 368 pages
Directed by Louise Johnson, was “The People of East Harlem,” carried out ...
researchers went door-to-door in East Harlem, discovering which health ...
Emergency Asthma
by Barry E Brenner - Medical - 1999 - 600 pages
From 1982 to 1987, asthma mortality rates in one very poor New York neighborhood,
East Harlem, were nearly 10 times higher than the average US rate (4).
Colored White
by David R Roediger - Social Science - 2003 - 332 pages
... in the festa and could even be considered not so “black” as the Puerto Ricans.
St. Ann's Parish in East Harlem featured.
Flying over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy ...
by Thomas L. Webber
An amazing book about a white boy growing up in East Harlem --with his family
the only white family in the projects where they live. ...
Chango's Fire
by Ernesto Quinonez - Fiction - 2004 - 288 pages
... I called it the Brown House, home to the president of Spanish Harlem. ...
Spanish Harlem was worthless property in the seventies and early eighties.
Puerto Rican Cuisine in America: Nuyorican and Bodega Recipes
by Oswald Rivera - Cooking - 2002 - 320 pages
... in the area that came to be known as Spanish Harlem (or the Barrio, ...
of savory pork products called frituras. Spanish Harlem gave rise to La ...
Rao's Recipes from the Neighborhood
By Frank Pellegrino - Cooking - 2004 - 224 pages
My uncle Sammy. and my' mother, Ida,
photographed in East Harlem in 1924. |