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Vanishing New York : how a great city lost its soul / Jeremiah Moss

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, 2017Description: viii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780062439697
  • 0062439693
Other title:
  • How a great city lost its soul
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HT 168 M913v 2017
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.
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"--Jacket..
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HT 168 M913v 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000121306

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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.

"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"--Jacket..

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