By Joanne Reitano
The stressed urban: a quick historical past of recent York from Colonial instances to the Present is a quick, energetic heritage of the world’s most fun and various city. It exhibits how New York’s perpetual struggles for energy, wealth, and standing exemplify the vigour, creativity, resilience, and impact of the nation’s top-rated city middle.
The up-to-date moment variation contains nineteen photographs and brings the tale correct up throughout the mayoral election of 2009. In those pages are the tales of a huge cross-section of individuals and occasions that formed town, together with mayors and moguls, ladies and staff, and policemen and poets. Joanne Reitano indicates how big apple has invigorated the yank dream through confronting the elemental fiscal, political, and social demanding situations that face each urban. Energized by means of switch, enriched by way of immigrants, and enlivened by means of provocative leaders, big apple City’s restlessness has constantly been its maximum asset.
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12 However, the poor who were squatting on land that was previously considered public property faced disaster. Dislocated by the sale of lands and the erection of fences, people angrily tore down fences throughout the 1820s. Hundreds rioted to protest the fencing of Stuyvesant family land in 1828. ”13 The clash of values over the meaning of progress in early-nineteenth-century New York also was evident in the dog and hog riots. Trying to address urban problems such as disease and dirt, unpaved and unlit streets, foul water and fires, the city government began expanding its supervisory role.
The act hit both rich and poor by directly taxing items used in professional and personal life such as customs papers, legal documents, licenses for selling or marrying, as well as ordinary goods such as newspapers, dice, and cards. Stamps verifying that the taxes had been paid were tangible tokens of taxation and, therefore, became targets of protest. Moreover, the revenues collected from the stamps were intended to support the very British troops that the colonists found so objectionable. The fact that the proposed taxes were light was less important than that they were to be enforced.
Trying to address urban problems such as disease and dirt, unpaved and unlit streets, foul water and fires, the city government began expanding its supervisory role. It required Gotham • licenses for numerous jobs, promoted cleanliness, and set standards for selling in and transporting goods to the marketplace. In 1811, the city mandated that all dog owners pay a tax as well as tag and leash their animals. 14 The city fathers saw loose dogs and hogs as dirty pests, even if they helped clean the streets of garbage long before a sanitation department existed.