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Content: “There are eight million stories in the Naked City.” This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City itself. One publication cultivating many of New York City's greatest stories is the City section in The New York Times. Each Sunday, this section of The New York Times, distributed only in papers in the five boroughs, captivates readers with tales of people and places that make the city unique.Featuring a cast of stellar writers-Phillip Lopate, Vivian Gornick, Thomas Beller and Laura Shaine Cunningham, among others-New York Stories brings some of the best essays from the City section to readers around the country. New Yorkers can learn something new about their city, while other readers will enjoy the flavor of the Big Apple. New York Stories profiles people like sixteen-year-old Barbara Ott, who surfs the waters off Rockaway in Queens, and Sonny Payne, the beloved panhandler of the F train. Other essays explore memorable places in the city, from the Greenwich Village townhouse blown up by radical activists in the 1970s to a basketball court that serves as the heart of its Downtown neighborhood.The forty essays collected in New York Stories reflect an intimate understanding of the city, one that goes beyond the headlines. The result is a passionate, well-written portrait of a legendary and ever-evolving place.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , Introduction -- , Part I A Sense of Place -- , 1 The House on West 11th Street: Three Decades After Young Radicals Blew Up an Elegant Brownstone in Greenwich Village, Echoes of the Blast Linger -- , 2 Spanish Harlem on His Mind: As Latinos From Many Lands Stream Into New York, Puerto Ricans Watch, Remembering a Time El Barrio Was Theirs Alone -- , 3 The Old Neighbors: Who Lives Where We Live? Who Sprinted Down This Hall, Smelled Spring From This Window? In a City Where the Past Is Ever Present, Tracing the Footsteps of Those Who Came Before Is a Haunting Journey -- , 4 Everyone Knows This Is Somewhere, Part I: An Englishman Finds Himself in the City of His Childhood Dreams, a Strange, Lofty, Urgent Presence, Beckoning Westward. -- , 5 Everyone Knows This Is Somewhere, Part II: He Journeyed From the Frozen Wastes of the Great Plains in Search of New York City Cool. He May Have Found It -- , 6 Nothing But Net: The Basketball Court Was Just a Patch of Asphalt in a West Village Playground, an Empty Page in the Urban Landscape. It Needed Players to Give It Meaning. -- , 7 New York’s Rumpus Room: For Nearly 150 Years, Central Park Has Been the City’s Endlessly Changing, All-Frills Heart. It’s Hard to Imagine New York Without It. -- , 8 Manhattan ’03: The Attacks of September 11 Prompted People Around the World to Articulate How Much New York Means to Them -- , 9 Back to the Home Planet: My East Side, No-Name Nabe -- , 10 Latte on the Hudson: New York’s Original Starbucks Has Closed. But 162 Remain, and a Day Idled Away in One of Them Reveals That These Marvels of Engineered Mood Have Become the City’s Ultimate Study Halls, Offices and Village Green -- , 11 Screech, Memory: The No. 2 Train Roared By Not 25 Yards From His Childhood Bedroom, Punctuating All the Rites of His Bronx Youth -- , 12 Bungalow Chic: Discovering the Romance of Rockaway, That Peninsula With an Esteem Problem -- , 13 The Allure of the Ledge: Working Close to the Clouds, the Window Washer Is the Ultimate Risk Taker, the Ultimate Voyeur -- , 14 There’s No Place Like Home. But There’s . . . No Place: A Long Hunt for an Apartment Uncovers Triple Bunk Beds, a Kitchen-Cum-Shower—and Some Insights Into the True Meaning of Home -- , 15 The Town That Gags Its Writers: The Buzz and Banter of New York, a Novelist Argues, Can Make It Hard to Hear Your Own Voice. Try Gainesville -- , 16 Rockaway Idyll: Eight in a Bungalow, $250 Each, for a Summer of Stars and Waves -- , 17 Waiting to Exhale: In a Town of Towers and Tight Spaces, Claustrophobics Yearn to Breathe Free -- , 18 A “Law and Order” Addict Tells All: The TV Series Is a Hit Around the Country. But Its Heart Beats to a New York Rhythm, for Us and Us Alone. -- , 19 Look Away: The Unwritten Law of Survival in the Teeming City -- , 20 On the Run: New York, Fast Paced and Deeply Social, Taught Him to Love to Smoke. Now the City Has Changed Its Mind and Demands That He Do the Same -- , 21 Marriage of Inconvenience? She Was Living Young and Carefree in the East Village. Then Came the Robbery -- , 22 Rain, Rain, Come Again: When It Pours in the City, There’s a Sense of Limited Possibilities. That’s Not So Bad -- , 23 The Agony of Victory: The Yankees Have Won 26 World Series Titles and 38 Pennants. The Giants, Knicks, Jets, Rangers—Even the Mets—Win Once in a While, Too. So Why Do New York Fans Whine So Much? -- , 24 Street Legal, Finally: Married. Divorced. In Your 40’s. Life Has Its Stops and Starts. Getting Your Driver’s License Is One of Them -- , 25 Time Out: Loving the Sport. Hating the Scene. Confessions of a Reluctant Soccer Dad -- , 26 Wild Masonry, Murderous Metal and Mr. Blonde: An Electrical Mistake, an Accidental Death. New Yorkers Learn That Even Their Powerful City Must Kneel Before the Random Hand of Fate -- , Part III New Yorkers -- , 27 Love’s Labors: She and Her Husband Roamed the World in Search of Exotic Plants. Now, Alone in a Bronx Office, Celia Maguire Tends to His Legacy -- , 28 Ballpark of Memory: Decades Ago, Lawrence Ritter Journeyed From the West Side to Roam the Country in Search of Baseball’s Past. He Came Back With Perhaps the Best Book Ever Written on the Sport -- , 29 The Paper Chase: The Collyer Brothers, Harlem’s Legendary Pack Rats, Offer a Gruesome Cautionary Tale -- , 30 The War Within: A Brand-New New Yorker, He Is Enchanted by the Storied City. But His Tour of Duty in Iraq Has Clouded His View of Himself and of His Adopted Home -- , 31 Uptown Girl: In Researching Her Book on the South Bronx, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Absorbed Its Poverty, Its Toughness, Its Glacial Pace. She Also Rediscovered Herself. -- , 32 My Friend Lodovico: Finding a Soul Mate on Upper Fifth Avenue -- , 33 Fare-Beater Inc. A Former Seminarian Found His True Calling in the Subtle Art of Sluggery -- , 34 The Ballad of Sonny Payne: The Subway Is Filled With Panhandlers. But Perhaps None Is as Beloved as the Man With the White Beard and Gentle Eyes Who Moves Through the F Train -- , Part IV City Lore -- , 35 The White Baby: In the Botanicas of Spanish Harlem, the Spirits Are Asked to Grant Prayers. But Long Ago, a Visitor Learns, the Gods Cruelly Mocked One Man’s Wish. -- , 36 New York, Brick by Brick: The AIA Guide, That Admiring, Classic Work on New York’s Ad Hoc, Additive Architecture, Offers Its First New Edition in More Than a Decade. -- , 37 Memory’s Curveball: Thick With the Glaze of Age, the Baseball Evoked Thoughts of a Legendary Team. But It Was Not What It Seemed. -- , 38 My Neighborhood, Its Fall and Rise: Safe But Dreary in the 50’s, the West Farms Area of the Bronx Had Grown Desolate in the 70’s. Now It’s on the Mend -- , 39 Ship of Dreams: In 1780, H.M.S Hussar Sank Near Hell Gate. Joseph Governali Was in Hot Pursuit, With Good Reason: Legend Says the Frigate Was Laden With Gold -- , 40 The Day the Boy Fell From the Sky: Decades Later, a Park Slope Nurse Remembers -- , ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- , ABOUT THE EDITOR , In English.

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DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814769355

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Content: What do Francine Prose, Suketu Mehta, and Edwidge Danticat have in common? Each suffers from an incurable love affair with the Big Apple, and each contributed to the canon of writing New York has inspired by way of the New York Times City Section, a part of the paper that once defined Sunday afternoon leisure for the denizens of the five boroughs. Former City Section editor Constance Rosenblum has again culled a diverse cast of voices that brought to vivid life our metropolis through those pages in this follow-up to the publication New York Stories (2005).The fifty essays in More New York Stories unite the city’s best-known writers to provide a window to the bustle and richness of city life. As with the previous collection, many of the contributors need no introduction, among them Kevin Baker, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Dorothy Gallagher, Colin Harrison, Frances Kiernan, Nathaniel Rich, Jonathan Rosen, Christopher Sorrentino, and Robert Sullivan; they are among the most eloquent observers of our urban life. Others are relative newcomers. But all are voices worth listening to, and the result is a comprehensive and entertaining picture of New York in all its many guises.The section on “Characters’’ offers a bouquet of indelible profiles. The section on “Places”takes us on journeys to some of the city’s quintessential locales. “Rituals, Rhythms, and Ruminations” seeks to capture the city’s peculiar texture, and the section called “Excavating the Past” offers slices of the city’s endlessly fascinating history.Delightful for dipping into and a great companion for anyone planning a trip, this collection is both a heart-warming introduction to the human side of New York and a reminder to life-long New Yorkers of the reasons we call the city home.

Note: More New York Stories -- , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Part One. Characters -- , 1. Mr. Maxwell and Me -- , 2. Strumming toward Self-Awareness -- , 3. Her Private Serenade -- , 4. Tom’s World -- , 5. In Noah’s Room -- , 6. The Days and Nights of Maurice Cherry -- , 7. Werner Kleeman’s Private War -- , 8. The Chicken and Rice Man -- , 9. A Life, Interrupted -- , 10. When Johnny Comes Marching In -- , Part Two. Places in the City’s Heart -- , 11. Razzle-Dazzle Me -- , 12. New York Was Our City on the Hill -- , 13. Here Is New York, Right Where We Left It -- , 14. Comfort Food -- , 15. The Great Awakening -- , 16. The Worst Ballpark in the World -- , 17. A Toast, with a Shot and a Beer -- , 18. The Secret Life of Hanover Square -- , 19. New York’s Lighthouse -- , 20. Call It Booklyn -- , 21. Breathless, Buoyant -- , 22. In the Courtyard of Miracles and Wonders -- , 23. Stranger in a Strange Land -- , 24. Hard Times along Gasoline Alley -- , 25. A Game of Inches -- , Part Three. Rituals, Rhythms, and Ruminations -- , 26. Please Get Me Out of Here Please -- , 27. The Starling Chronicles -- , 28. A Chance to Be Mourned -- , 29. Doodles à la Carte -- , 30. Unstoppable -- , 31. The Urban Ear -- , 32. Children of Darkness -- , 33. Tunnel Vision -- , 34. The Unthinkable, Right around the Corner -- , 35. His City, Lost and Found -- , 36. Any Given Monday -- , 37. Lemon Zest -- , 38. Tree Proud -- , 39. Faces in the Crowd -- , 40. Fertility Rites -- , 41. His Kind of River -- , 42. Soul Train -- , Part Four. Excavating the Past -- , 43. A Mother Lost and Found -- , 44. Battle in Black and White -- , 45. Morrisania Melody -- , 46. BoHo, Back in the Day -- , 47. Was He the Eggman? -- , 48. When He Was Seventeen -- , 49. A Long Day’s Journey into Lip Gloss -- , 50. Always, the Crack of the Bat -- , About the Contributors -- , About the Editor , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/9780814769027

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Content: A vivid memoir of life in one of New York City’s most dynamic neighborhoodsGrowing Up Bank Street is an evocative, tender account of life in Greenwich Village, on a unique street that offered warmth, support, and inspiration to an adventurous and openhearted young girl. Bank Street, a short strip of elegant brownstones and humble tenements in Greenwich Village, can trace its lineage back to the yellow fever epidemics of colonial New York. In the middle of the last century, it became home to a cast of extraordinary characters whose stories intertwine in this spirited narrative. Growing up, Donna Florio had flamboyant, opera performer parents and even more free-spirited neighbors. As a child, she lived among beatniks, artists, rock musicians, social visionaries, movie stars, and gritty blue-collar workers, who imparted to her their irrepressibly eccentric life rules. The real-life Auntie Mame taught her that she is a divine flame from the universe. John Lennon, who lived down the street, was gracious when she dumped water on his head. Sex Pistols star Sid Vicious lived in the apartment next door, and his heroin overdose death came as a wake-up call during her wild twenties. An elderly Broadway dancer led by brave example as Donna helped him comfort dying Villagers in the terrifying early days of AIDS, and a reclusive writer gave her a path back from the brink when, as a witness to the attacks of 9/11, her world collapsed. These vibrant vignettes weave together a colorful coming of age tale against the backdrop of a historic, iconoclastic street whose residents have been at the heart of the American story. As Greenwich Village gentrifies and the hallmarks of its colorful past disappear, Growing Up Bank Street gives the reader a captivating glimpse of the thriving culture that once filled its storied streets

Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Foreword , MY BANK STREET , 1. Six Blocks of America , 2. Opera on Bank Street , MY BUILDING , 3. The Frydels , 4. Mr.Bendtsen , 5. Mrs. Swanson and the Browders , 6. John Lavery , 7. Grace Bickers , 8. Lena , 9. Sabine , 10. Sid Vicious , ARTISTIC BANK STREET , 11. John, Yoko, Rex, and Many More , 12. Al , 13. John Kemmerer , 14. George and Gloria , STYLISH AND SPLENDID BANK STREET , 15. Jack Heineman Jr. , 16. Jack and Madeline Gilford , 17. Auntie Mame: Marion Tanner , 18. Bella Abzug , SECRET BANK STREET , 19. The Jester, the Bishop, and the Eavesdropper , 20. Stella Crater , 21. Yeffe Kimball , THE HEART OF BANK STREET , 22. Billy Joyce , 23. Marty, Roz, and Marty’s Harem , 24. The Many Kinds of Friendships , Epilogue , Acknowledgments , Works Consulted , Index , About the Author , In English

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

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Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

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Format: xiii, 295 p. : , ill.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Uniform Title: New York times.

Note: Continues: New York stories. New York : New York University Press, c2005. , Includes index.

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Format: xii, 267 p. : , ill.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

ISBN: 0814776086 , 9780814776087

Content: Stretching over four miles through the center of the West Bronx, the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, known simply as the Grand Concourse, has gracefully served as silent witness to the changing face of the Bronx, and New York City, for a century. Now, a New York Times editor brings to life the street in all its raucous glory. Designed by a French engineer in the late nineteenth century to echo the elegance and grandeur of the Champs Elysées in Paris, the Concourse was nearly twenty years in the making and celebrates its centennial in November 2009. Over that century it has truly been a boulevar

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: A PROMENADE FOR THE BRONX; 1 "A Drive of Extraordinary Delightfulness"; 2 "Get a New Resident for the Bronx"; 3 "I Was Living in 'a Modern Building'"; II: THE GOLDEN GHETTO; 4 "Something That Everybody Had in Awe"; 5 "An Acre of Seats in a Garden of Dreams"; 6 "By the Waters of the Grand Concourse"; 7 The Grand Concourse of the Imagination; III: TO HELL AND BACK; 8 "The Borough of Abandonment"; 9 Who Killed the Concourse?; 10 "Bends in the Road"; Sources; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z , About the Author , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Boulevard of Dreams : Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx

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Format: 1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-8147-6902-0 , 0-8147-7673-6

Uniform Title: New York times.

Content: What do Francine Prose, Suketu Mehta, and Edwidge Danticat have in common? Each suffers from an incurable love affair with the Big Apple, and each contributed to the canon of writing New York has inspired by way of the New York Times City Section, a part of the paper that once defined Sunday afternoon leisure for the denizens of the five boroughs. Former City Section editor Constance Rosenblum has again culled a diverse cast of voices that brought to vivid life our metropolis through those pages in this follow-up to the publication New York Stories (2005).The fifty essays in More New York Stories unite the city’s best-known writers to provide a window to the bustle and richness of city life. As with the previous collection, many of the contributors need no introduction, among them Kevin Baker, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Dorothy Gallagher, Colin Harrison, Frances Kiernan, Nathaniel Rich, Jonathan Rosen, Christopher Sorrentino, and Robert Sullivan; they are among the most eloquent observers of our urban life. Others are relative newcomers. But all are voices worth listening to, and the result is a comprehensive and entertaining picture of New York in all its many guises.The section on “Characters’’ offers a bouquet of indelible profiles. The section on “Places”takes us on journeys to some of the city’s quintessential locales. “Rituals, Rhythms, and Ruminations” seeks to capture the city’s peculiar texture, and the section called “Excavating the Past” offers slices of the city’s endlessly fascinating history.Delightful for dipping into and a great companion for anyone planning a trip, this collection is both a heart-warming introduction to the human side of New York and a reminder to life-long New Yorkers of the reasons we call the city home.

Note: Continues: New York stories. New York : New York University Press, c2005. , Includes index. , More New York Stories -- , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Part One. Characters -- , 1. Mr. Maxwell and Me -- , 2. Strumming toward Self-Awareness -- , 3. Her Private Serenade -- , 4. Tom’s World -- , 5. In Noah’s Room -- , 6. The Days and Nights of Maurice Cherry -- , 7. Werner Kleeman’s Private War -- , 8. The Chicken and Rice Man -- , 9. A Life, Interrupted -- , 10. When Johnny Comes Marching In -- , Part Two. Places in the City’s Heart -- , 11. Razzle-Dazzle Me -- , 12. New York Was Our City on the Hill -- , 13. Here Is New York, Right Where We Left It -- , 14. Comfort Food -- , 15. The Great Awakening -- , 16. The Worst Ballpark in the World -- , 17. A Toast, with a Shot and a Beer -- , 18. The Secret Life of Hanover Square -- , 19. New York’s Lighthouse -- , 20. Call It Booklyn -- , 21. Breathless, Buoyant -- , 22. In the Courtyard of Miracles and Wonders -- , 23. Stranger in a Strange Land -- , 24. Hard Times along Gasoline Alley -- , 25. A Game of Inches -- , Part Three. Rituals, Rhythms, and Ruminations -- , 26. Please Get Me Out of Here Please -- , 27. The Starling Chronicles -- , 28. A Chance to Be Mourned -- , 29. Doodles à la Carte -- , 30. Unstoppable -- , 31. The Urban Ear -- , 32. Children of Darkness -- , 33. Tunnel Vision -- , 34. The Unthinkable, Right around the Corner -- , 35. His City, Lost and Found -- , 36. Any Given Monday -- , 37. Lemon Zest -- , 38. Tree Proud -- , 39. Faces in the Crowd -- , 40. Fertility Rites -- , 41. His Kind of River -- , 42. Soul Train -- , Part Four. Excavating the Past -- , 43. A Mother Lost and Found -- , 44. Battle in Black and White -- , 45. Morrisania Melody -- , 46. BoHo, Back in the Day -- , 47. Was He the Eggman? -- , 48. When He Was Seventeen -- , 49. A Long Day’s Journey into Lip Gloss -- , 50. Always, the Crack of the Bat -- , About the Contributors -- , About the Editor , English

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DOI: 10.18574/9780814769027

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ISBN: 0-8147-7155-6

Content: There may be eight million stories in the Naked City, but there are also nearly three million dwelling places, ranging from Park Avenue palaces to Dickensian garrets and encompassing much in between. The doorways to these residences are tantalizing portals opening onto largely invisible lives. Habitats offers 40 vivid and intimate stories about how New Yorkers really live in their brownstones, their apartments, their mansions, their lofts, and as a whole presents a rich, multi-textured portrait of what it means to make a home in the world’s most varied and powerful city. These essays, expanded versions of a selection of the Habitats column published in the Real Estate section of The New York Times, take readers to both familiar and remote sections of the city—to history-rich townhouses, to low-income housing projects, to out-of-the-way places far from the beaten track, to every corner of the five boroughs—and introduce them to a wide variety of families and individuals who call New York home. These pieces reveal a great deal about the city’s past and its rich store of historic dwellings. Along with exploring the deep and even mystical connections people feel to the place where they live, these pieces, taken as a whole, offer a mosaic of domestic life in one of the world’s most fascinating cities and a vivid portrait of the true meaning of home in the 21st-century metropolis.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Habitats -- , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Starting Out -- , 1. His Hacienda in the Sky -- , 2. A Single Man Buys a Home for Someday -- , 3. Very Bushwick and Very Fabulous -- , 4. Southern Shimmer -- , Starting Over -- , 5. The House of Open Arms -- , 6. Her Cottage by the Sea -- , 7. Here I Am. And Here We Are. -- , Living with Ghosts -- , 8. The House That Saved His Life -- , 9. And for Compensation, the View -- , 10. The Domestication of a Dive -- , 11. A Man and His Miscellany -- , 12. A Beach Bungalow with a Magnetic Pull -- , 13. The Almost Landless Gardener -- , 14. Lair and Sanctuary in the South Bronx -- , Creative Types -- , 15. The Traveling Circus Stops Here -- , 16. For a Writer, a Home with a Hideout -- , 17. Where Wit Pays the Rent -- , 18. The Art of Sparkle -- , 19. Her Second Home, the One without Wheels -- , 20. Magic Moments -- , 21. Caretakers of a Culture -- , 22. Paradise Found -- , 23. Trim Jim Creates a Masterpiece -- , Old Stomping Grounds -- , 24. Ensconced in the Bronx -- , 25. Over the Family Store, Staff Quarters -- , 26. With Sky and the Weather for Neighbors -- , 27. A Hand-Me-Down Home -- , 28. The Leader of the Cheers -- , 29. A Moment of Remarkable Optimism -- , 30. Elastic Elegance -- , 31. Elephants for Luck -- , 32. A Young Life -- , 33. The Rebel Girl of Borough Park -- , Palaces and Jewel Boxes -- , 34. For a Family, Elaborate Elbow Room -- , 35. Enter, Hammering -- , 36. Pocket-Sized on West 47th Street -- , 37. Ardent Admirer, Devoted Steward -- , Nesting -- , 38. Kitten Heaven -- , 39. With Family Built In -- , 40. Threading the Needle on West 12th Street -- , About the Author , English

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DOI: 10.18574/9780814771556

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ISBN: 9780814777404

Content: Stretching over four miles through the center of the West Bronx, the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, known simply as the Grand Concourse, has gracefully served as silent witness to the changing face of the Bronx, and New York City, for a century. Now, a New York Times editor brings to life the street in all its raucous glory.Designed by a French engineer in the late nineteenth century to echo the elegance and grandeur of the Champs Elysées in Paris, the Concourse was nearly twenty years in the making and celebrates its centennial in November 2009. Over that century it has truly been a boulevard of dreams for various upwardly mobile immigrant and ethnic groups, yet it has also seen the darker side of the American dream. Constance Rosenblum unearths the colorful history of this grand street and its interlinked neighborhoods. With a seasoned journalist’s eye for detail, she paints an evocative portrait of the Concourse through compelling life stories and historical vignettes. The story of the creation and transformation of the Grand Concourse is the story of New York—and America—writ large, and Rosenblum examines the Grand Concourse from its earliest days to the blighted 1960s and 1970s right up to the current period of renewal. Beautifully illustrated with a treasure trove of historical photographs, the vivid world of the Grand Concourse comes alive—from Yankee Stadium to the unparalleled collection of Art Deco apartments to the palatial Loew’s Paradise movie theater.An enthralling story of the creation of an iconic street, an examination of the forces that transformed it, and a moving portrait of those who called it home, Boulevard of Dreams is a must read for anyone interested in the rich history of New York and the twentieth-century American city.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1 “A Drive of Extraordinary Delightfulness” -- , 2 “Get a New Resident for the Bronx” -- , 3 “I Was Living in ‘a Modern Building’” -- , 4 “Something That Everybody Had in Awe” -- , 5 “An Acre of Seats in a Garden of Dreams” -- , 6 “By the Waters of the Grand Concourse” -- , 7 The Grand Concourse of the Imagination -- , 8 “The Borough of Abandonment” -- , 9 Who Killed the Concourse? -- , 10 “Bends in the Road” -- , Sources -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , About the Author , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/9780814777404

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