The man with the sawed-off leg and other tales of a New York City block
By: Daniel J. Wakin
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781628728453
Subjects: Anecdotes; Biography; History
Description: "They stand proudly gazing across the Hudson River at the cliffs of New Jersey. Their brows are marked by ornamental pediments. Greek columns stand as sentries by their entrances and stone medallions bedeck their chests. They are seven graceful relics of Beaux Arts New York, townhouses built more than 100 years ago for a new class of industrialists, actors and scientists -- many from abroad -- who made their fortunes in the United States and shaped the lives of Americans. This book brings to life the ghosts who inhabit that row of townhouses on Manhattan?s stately Riverside Drive"--Page 2 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205).
Table of contents: title: The Planning, Stage 1: "Bags of Money"; title: Origins: "A Benefit to the Neighborhood"; title: The Kidnapping: "You Are His God Now"; title: No. 330: Baking Powder: "Their Difficulties Are Well Known"; title: The Planning, Stage 2: "One Good Ton Deserves Another"; title: No. 336: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"; title: The Heist, Part I: "Ramshackle or Abandoned Mansions"; title: No. 333: The Canavans, Bellow and the Duke; title: The Heist, Part II: "Say a Word, and It Spits"; title: No. 334: Adrenaline and "Sakura, Sakura"; title: The Getaway: Bennie Loses a Leg; title: No. 334, Continued: "Four Out of Five Have It"; title: The Hunt: "A Motion Picture Director's Dream"; title: No. 335: "More Potent for Evil"; title: The Gang Disintegrates: "I Lived High, Wide and Handsome"; title: No. 336: Rubber and Clay; title: Breakthrough; title: No. 337: Mrs. Havisham's House: "Freedom Was Mine"; title: Farewells; title: The Fates of Townhouses: "Life Is Particularly Difficult".