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Manhattan's Turtle Bay: Story of a Midtown Neighborhood Book

Manhattan's Turtle Bay: Story of a Midtown Neighborhood
Manhattan's Turtle Bay: Story of a Midtown Neighborhood, The mid-20th century ushered in a new era for the East Midtown neighborhood of Turtle Bay. The United Nations moved into its headquarters on the East River, and the Third Avenue El—last of Manhattans elevated rail lines—was dismantled, making way for one , Manhattan's Turtle Bay: Story of a Midtown Neighborhood has a rating of 3 stars
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Manhattan's Turtle Bay: Story of a Midtown Neighborhood, The mid-20th century ushered in a new era for the East Midtown neighborhood of Turtle Bay. The United Nations moved into its headquarters on the East River, and the Third Avenue El—last of Manhattans elevated rail lines—was dismantled, making way for one , Manhattan's Turtle Bay: Story of a Midtown Neighborhood
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  • Manhattan's Turtle Bay: Story of a Midtown Neighborhood
  • Written by author Pamela Hanlon
  • Published by Arcadia Pub, January 2008
  • The mid-20th century ushered in a new era for the East Midtown neighborhood of Turtle Bay. The United Nations moved into its headquarters on the East River, and the Third Avenue El—last of Manhattans elevated rail lines—was dismantled, making way for one
  • The mid-20th century ushered in a new era for the East Midtown neighborhood of Turtle Bay. The United Nations moved into its headquarters on the East River, and the Third Avenue El—last of Manhattans elevated rail lines—was dismantled, making
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Acknowledgments     vii
Prologue     viii
Mid-Century Makeover: The 1950s     13
The El Comes Down
This Place Called Turtle Bay: A Look Back
The Way It Was
Living Among Stars
The Wrong Side
Girl Scouts Arrive
Tackling the Traffic Tangle
Recognizing Change: The 1960s     37
Towers Rise
The Dollhouse
Celebrating Early Landmarks
Side-by-Side
Challenges Ahead
The U.N. Expands: Four Plans
Beekman Place and a Bridge Not to Be
Trying Times: The 1970s     61
Community Challenged
Turtle Bay's Pentagon Papers
Copter Controversy
Fountain Folly and Waterfall Wonder
Greening of a Neighborhood
Hurricane Winds
Sunlight Preserved: The 1980s     110
Keeping the Charm
Don't Slay Turtle Bay
A Park Named Peter Detmold
Stuck on First
White Christmas
Call Me Madam
Host to the World
New and Renewed: The 1990s     125
A Plaza Created
Planning for Plaza Renewal
A Park Bench
Tumultuous Times for a Landmark
First Avenue: Old and New
Planning for Tomorrow: The Early 2000s     146
Remembering
The Willow Tree
Reaching for the Sun
Sources     153
Index     157


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