Vanishing New York : how a great city lost its soul
Title:
Vanishing New York : how a great city lost its soul
Author:
Moss, Jeremiah, 1971- , author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
[Place of publication not identified] : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, 2017.
©2017
Physical Description:
viii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
"An unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York. For generations, New York City has been a mecca for artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be part of its rich cultural exchange and unique social fabric. But today, modern gentrification is transforming the city from an exceptional, iconoclastic metropolis into a suburbanized luxury zone with a price tag only the one percent can afford."--Jacket flap.
Language:
English
Contents:
The East Village -- Hyper-gentrification in the revanchist city -- Ludlow Street and the Lower East Side -- The battle for New York's soul -- The Bowery -- The neoliberal turn -- Little Italy -- September 11 -- Greenwich Village -- Bloomberg -- The Gold Coast of Bleecker Street -- In the new New York -- High Line 1: the meatpacking district -- The new gilded age and the Enron society -- Chelsea -- On the sidewalk -- High Line 2: West Chelsea to Hudson Yards -- The trouble with tourists -- Times Square -- Suburbanizing the city -- Harlem and East Harlem -- Gentrifiers and the new manifest destiny -- Brooklyn -- Coney Island -- Queens -- The South Bronx -- On memory and forgetting -- Conclusion.
ISBN:
9780062439697
Format :
Book
