By 1978, Disco was for Studio 54 and Xenon; Punk and New Wave were south of 14th, and Hip Hop competed with the horns and timbales of Latin Fania for Sound of the Streets. Most of those streets, though, were empty.
New York is a city whose DNA comes from all over the world, a fantastic and unique place belonging to America yet not completely American.
Houses dating to the first Dutch settlers on Staten Island; yellow brick roads in Brooklyn; clocks embedded in the sidewalk in Manhattan; bishop's crook lampposts in Queens; a white elephant in the Bronx—this is New York and this is your ...
New York is the book that Rutherfurd's fans have been waiting for. From the Hardcover edition.
The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.
But look, you put your tap in, through your own covert channel no less, and next thing we know we're trapped in a container decked out like some kind of limbo. Maybe the cloud killed us, and this is us dead.” “No.
40 As the 1980s drew to a close , Tom Wolfe's best - selling novel , The Bonfire of the Vanities , became the most talked about New York book in a generation . With dark humor , Wolfe chronicled the chasm between the rich and everyone ...
Constructed between 1872 and 1896, it was designed by Isaac F. Duckworth. today, the first floors of many of these cast-iron buildings are luxury stores. stroll down Greene street to experience the beauty of ...
In A Queer New York, Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the historic significance of these spaces, mapping the political, economic, and geographic dispossession of an important, thriving community that once called certain New York neighborhoods ...
Presented in two halves - City and Getaway - the book showcases city living from uptown to downtown, as well as the chic retreats of the Hamptons and other exclusive weekend destinations where New Yorkers head to relax and unwind"- ...