Destination City - A Gallery of New York s Most Surprising Visitors Residents

Destination City presents the surprising stories of historical figures who are not usually associated with New York City but spent key parts of their lives there.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. And Never Looked Back
2. Extending the Grand Tour
3. College Days
4. Roommates
5. Tying the Knot
6. “Fun City”
7. My New York Years
8. On the People’s Business
9. The Obligatory Book Tour Stop
10. On the Road to Freedom
11. A Wider Audience
12. Not a Fan (Perhaps with Good Reason)
13. Just Passing Through
14. Out-of-Network
15. Before Remote Working
16. Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line
17. Chouette New York
18. Ticker-Tape Parades
19. State Visits
20. Exiles, Refugees, and Wartime Visitors
21. Eastward Ho
22. The Kennedys of the Bronx
23. A Good Place to Retire
24. Crossing the Bar
25. A Gaping Hole in an Otherwise Full Life: Nary a Trip to Gotham
Appendix: The Cutting-Room Floor
Index

About the author

Robert Pigott is the general counsel of a New York City nonprofit that develops affordable housing. He is a former section chief and bureau chief of the New York Attorney General’s Charities Bureau as well as the author of New York’s Legal Landmarks, a historical guidebook. A lifelong New Yorker, Pigott lives in Manhattan.

Summary

Destination City presents the surprising stories of historical figures who are not usually associated with New York City but spent key parts of their lives there.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Pigott, Pigott Robert
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.01.2025
• EAN: 9780231216487
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21648-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; Ethnic Studies, History, Biography: general, Local History, Travel and holiday guides, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional, history; biography & autobiography; travel