When did the Stature of Liberty Turn Green? 101 Other Questions About New York City written by the Staff of the New-York Society Library

It's a beautiful and sunny book When did the Stature of Liberty Turn Green?

101 Other Questions About New York City written by the Staff of the New-York Society Library. If you love New York, if you want to discover realitistically the story of New York in a light way, passing through characters, places, people and what and who made the story of NYC, this one will be a great reading. Published by Columbia University Press this book is divided in various sections: Firsts and Origins, History and Politics, Curiosities and Wonders, Buildings, Streets and Neighborhoods, Arts, Leisures and Diversities. New York: known for his Christmas, and his Christmas's Trees, the first one vendors started their commerce of Christmas's Trees in the city was on 1851. The first book printed thanks to William Bradford in 1685. Although the New York Times is famous internationally, there is to add that the New York Post was the first newsmagazine released in New York, and it was at the end of 1800s, beginning of 1900s that some locals started to being identified as gay-ones.

You will learn that the New York Historical Society was founded by John Pintard, who had previously also founded the Massachusetts Historical Society. At the moment the Historical Society continues to play an important role in the cultural and educational life of the city. You will learn when slavery was suppressed in New York City and an important voice will involve also the so-called "orphan trains" trains of orphans fostered by families in the mid-west or in the west of the USA. 

A club the Harmonie one was founded by a German Jews attracting all that people refused by the exclusive clubs of New York City.

The Club was opened to everyone, not just Jewish people of course. With the time some polemics. Bloomberg resigned from this club and other three ones because he thought that there wasn't too much diversity and Barack Obama gave up from hosting a fund-raising because there are still no blacks in the club. The Harmonie accepts all people and at the moment blacks often visit the club as members's guest.

It was a terrible winter-time that year in NYC.1888, Roscoe Conkling, a senator of 59, successful, great life, plenty of health had had a life still to be living at the fullest. A heavy snow was descending from the sky. When he left his office and took a taxi, considering the 50 dollars that the man pretended, Roscoe preferred to giving up, starting to walk. His end was terribly sad.

Madame C.J. Walker was famous because she was the first millionaire woman. She sold all her life products for improving the quality of hair and fought against discriminations.

John Purroy Mitchel was the youngest mayor of NYC, but his history dramatically sad.

Although Sept 11 2001 that let us see with terror what it meant the impact of two airplanes in two skycrapes, you will read that NYC's problems with airplanes and buildings "existed" also in the past.

The story of mail deliveries in NYC is tremendously interesting but also the story of the research of corpes will intrigue you a lot for sure.

Considering that there wasn't any kind of regulation on the matter, it was custom in the past in NYC at opening graves for searching  for corpses necessary for experiment in laboratories or just for research. If at first this activity was done with a certain discretion, later became morbid and obsessive. 

Let's just add that someone, pretty upset caused a lot of mess because of the disappearance of the bodies of his beloved ones from the cemetery. 

The story of premature babies and Coney Island is captivating like also the one of Topsy an elephant who killed several people. For this reason she was killed as well. 

Balto, differently was an heroic dog. He saved thanks to his work, the existence of many people, and so someone thought that it would have been great remembering this dog with a statue, giving to him and the rest of dogs, dignity when alive.

A voice is dedicated at New Year's Eve; how New Yorkers celebrated the festivity and the arrival of the choice of Times Square iconic place attracting every end of the year New Yorkers and tourists from the world.

There is a statue of Edwin Booth in New York; he was the brother of John Wilkes Booth the killer of Abraham Lincoln. Edwin was a great actor, and he played a crucial role for the city.

Many more voices, many more facts, events, people in this book, fresh, quick, but at the same time informative and very well done.

Highly recommended.

I thank Columbia University Press for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori