TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dann,Kevin
TI  - Enchanted New York: A Journey along Broadway through Manhattan's Magical Past 
SN  - 9781479828746
AV  - F128.67.B7 D36 2020
U1  - 974.7/1 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Magic
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - History
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Travel / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African Burial Ground
KW  - Albert Einstein
KW  - Alice Bailey
KW  - Andrew Jackson Davis
KW  - Anthroposophy
KW  - Arthur Conan Doyle
KW  - Bell Labs
KW  - Bruce Barton
KW  - Charles Fort
KW  - City Hall Park
KW  - Cloisters
KW  - Cooper Union
KW  - Ehrenfried Pfeiffer
KW  - Fascism
KW  - Federal Hall
KW  - Forteana
KW  - Fox Sisters
KW  - Freemasonry
KW  - H. P. Lovecraft
KW  - Harry Houdini
KW  - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
KW  - Helena Roerich
KW  - Henry Steele Olcutt
KW  - Inwood
KW  - James Reuel Smith
KW  - John Street Theater
KW  - Lenape
KW  - Manhattan Project
KW  - Manhattan
KW  - New York City
KW  - Orson Welles
KW  - P.T. Barnum
KW  - Park Theater
KW  - Pinkster
KW  - Rubens Peale
KW  - Rudolf Steiner
KW  - Samuel Morse
KW  - Spiritualism
KW  - St. John’s Lodge
KW  - St. Paul’s Chapel
KW  - Superman
KW  - Theosophy
KW  - Thomas Paine
KW  - Trinity Church
KW  - disenchantment
KW  - enchantment
KW  - etheric
KW  - eugenics
KW  - guidebook
KW  - mesmerism
KW  - occultism
KW  - phrenology
KW  - travel guide
KW  - witchcraft
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. An Enchanted Inauguration: 1789 --; 2. Masonic Manhattan: 1798– 1835 --; 3. Magnetic Manhattan: 1836– 1874 --; 4. Occult Manhattan: 1875– 1914 --; 5. Fortean Manhattan: 1920– 1930 --; 6. Apocalyptic Manhattan: 1933– 1948 --; 7. Sinister Manhattan: 1952– 1981 --; Conclusion Manhattan’s Magical Future --; Notes --; Index --; About the author; restricted access
N2  - A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical pastManhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour—a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic, literary, and commercial celebrity lends an aura of the fantastic to even its most commonplace locales. Enchanted New York chronicles an alternate history of this magical isle. It offers a tour along Broadway, focusing on times and places that illuminate a forgotten and sometimes hidden history of New York through site-specific stories of wizards, illuminati, fortune tellers, magicians, and more. Progressing up New York’s central thoroughfare, this guidebook to magical Manhattan offers a history you won’t find in your Lonely Planet or Fodor’s guide, tracing the arc of American technological alchemies—from Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton to the Manhattan Project—to Mesmeric physicians, to wonder–working Madame Blavatsky, and seers Helena Roerich and Alice Bailey. Harry Houdini appears and disappears, as the world’s premier stage magician’s feats of prestidigitation fade away to reveal a much more mysterious—and meaningful—marquee of magic.Unlike old-world cities, New York has no ancient monuments to mark its magical adolescence. There is no local memory embedded in the landscape of celebrated witches, warlocks, gods, or goddesses—no myths of magical metamorphoses. As we follow Kevin Dann in geographical and chronological progression up Broadway from Battery Park to Inwood, each chapter provides a surprising picture of a city whose ever-changing fortunes have always been founded on magical activity
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479828746.001.0001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479828746
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479828746/original
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