Flushing
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Regular price $24.99 Sale price $12.50 Save 50%Flushing explores the dramatic changes of this ever growing city with many never-before-seen images. Jason D. Antos is the author of three other local Queens history books.
In the 1890s, electric lighting and improved roads were just the beginning of the changes about to take place in Flushing, New York. Once a rural village of wide-open farms and magnificent estates, Flushing transformed into a community of more than 200,000 people and quickly became one of the busiest neighborhoods in Queens.
Gravesend, Brooklyn
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Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Experience the old farming days of what was once the agricultural community of Gravesend, Brooklyn and how the town has transformed into the urban neighborhood it is today.
Permanently settled in 1645, the farming town of Gravesend, Long Island, was annexed to the city (now borough) of Brooklyn, New York, in 1894. Few reminders from Gravesend's rural days survive around the urban landscape it has become. Even its more recent past is quickly disappearing.
Troy
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Regular price $24.99 Sale price $12.50 Save 50%Dobbs Ferry
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Regular price $23.99 Sale price $12.00 Save 50%Named after the operator of a primitive ferry that in Colonial and Revolutionary days transported citizens across the Hudson, Dobbs Ferry is an integral piece of New York City history.
Dobbs Ferry takes its name from the operator of a primitive ferry that in Colonial and Revolutionary days provided the first passage across the Hudson River north of New York City. In the 19th century, the river and the new castles built on its banks attracted tourists who christened the area ""the heart of the American Rhine."" Judith Doolin Spikes, writer, and Anne Marie Leone, photographer, coauthor a weekly then-and-now column in the Rivertowns Enterprise.
The Three Villages
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Regular price $24.99 Sale price $12.50 Save 50%The long and turbulent history of Three Villages is revealed here.
From its roots in the 17th century through the turbulence of the Revolutionary War, the Three Village community of New York has faced the challenge of maintaining its own identity in a constantly shifting world.