City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York Ashland050926

City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York Ashland050926New York has been Americas city of immigrants for nearly four centuries. Growing from Peter Minuits tiny settlement of 1626 to a clamorous metropolis with more than three million immigrants today, the city has always been a magnet for transplants from all over the globe. City of Dreams is the long overdue, inspiring, and defining account of New Yorks immigrants, both famous and forgotten: the young man from the Caribbean who relocated to New York and

with its embossed cover and color-edged pages

an actress no less

the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black

truthful and wise

Thanks to a mud-slinging exposé

Two-time Caldecott Honor medalist Pamela Zagarenski’s rich

When failing knees permanently derailed his career

and Robert

Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist

Alma starts to think it might be a perfect fit after all — and realizes that she will one day have her own story to tell

the shy and brilliant composer

What can Holmes do to save him