New York Calling - From Blackout to Bloomberg

Informationen zum Autor Marshall Berman is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at City College of New York and CCNY Graduate Center! where he teaches political theory and urban studies. His books include On The Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square (2006) and All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1983). Born and raised in the Bronx! he lives in Manhattan with his family. Brian Berger is a poet! journalist! and photographer who remembers the view of Playland from the terrace of his grandparents' apartment in Rockaway Beach! Queens. He's written about music for Forced Exposure! the Austin Chronicle and Geek Weekly! while his verse has appeared at jargonbooks.com and elsewhere. His own dark hollow is whowalkinbrooklyn.com Klappentext Acclaimed historian Berman and journalist Berger gather a stellar group of writers and photographers who combine their energies to weave a rich tale of New York Citys struggle! excitement! and wonder. Zusammenfassung Taking us back to the streets of New York City where eccentricity and anomie were pervasive! this title unlocks life in the unpolished Apple! where! it seemed! anything could happen. It explains how Uptown has taken over Downtown! as Tom Robbins examines the mayors and would-be mayors who have presided over the transformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Marshall Berman PUBLIC SPACES 1. Subterranean Vaudeville - Jim Knipfel 2. From Wise Guys to Woo-Girls' - John Strausbaugh 3. There's Hope For the Bronx - C. J. Sullivan 4. My Life in Graffiti - Joe Anastasio 5. Commerce - Luc Sante 6. Staten Island: The Forgotten Borough - Steve Maluk 7. Pictures from Brooklyn - Brian Berger 8. Everyone-and-Everywhere in Queens - Kevin Walsh 9. Documenting New York's Homeless - Margaret Morton CITY LIFE 1. The Other New York Awaits its Leader - Tom Robbins 2. NYPD in Brief - Leonard Levitt 3. The Practice of Everyday Life - Jean Thilmany 4. At Least it's Not New York - Richard Meltzer 5. New York State of Crime - Tim McLoughlin 6. What Happens There Matters - Leonard Greene 7. Speaking Truth to Power - Armond White 8. I Am a Renter - Philip Dray 9. Growing up on St Mark's Place - Edmund Berrigan THE THINGS WE DO 1. Going Downtown (on an Uptown Train) - Paul Kopasz 2. From Stonewall to Ground Zero - Robert Atkins 3. The Sexual City - Catherine Schmitz 4. An Incomplete History of New York Galleries - John Yau 5. My Life in New York Jazz - Allen Lowe 6. Death and Transfiguration in New York Rock 7. BIG ART Inc. - Anthony Haden-Guest 8. Coffee! Cocktails and Cigarettes - Daniel Young 9. Writing New York - Meakin Armstrong 10. From Blackout to Blintzes (and Beyond) - Robert Sietsema ...

Product details

• Authors: Brian Berger, Marshall Berger Berman
• Assisted by: Brian Berger (Editor), Marshall Berman (Editor)
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.2007
• EAN: 9781861893383
• ISBN: 978-1-86189-338-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous