Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New YorkLuc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. |
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The forest of signs: looking north from Brooklyn Bridge toward Cherry Street, circa 1900. Photograph by Byron The old New York, right, and the new, left: a city growing into its clothes. From Va/en tine's Manua /, 1861 The Five Points, ...
Thoro points in log - wew on the coero one or of Footoo one orangelotowo, so - - probably have been torn down to make room for modern. The Five Points, looking rustic and rather sedate, distinguished only by wobbly construction and ...
They are, in fact, the end point of such development, after which would come a succession of experiments in model housing ... The most notorious of these was the Old Brewery, a five-story structure built in 1792 on the banks of the old ...
The Old Brewery was the magnetic center of the area called the Five Points, the intersection of Orange (now Baxter), Cross (now Park), and Anthony (also known as Cat Hollow, now Worth) Streets, the immediate area also bounded by Ryndert ...
The Five Points flourished—if that is the word—until 1868, when a crusade headed by Horace Greeley led to the removal of a house at the end of Anthony Street, which opened up the enclosure, although the major slum that dominated the ...
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Comentariu Utilizator - kapheine - LibraryThingThere were a handful of interesting parts, but a lot of it turned into a laundry list of names. Once I decided to start skipping over parts that went too far down into details I started enjoying it a little more. Citește recenzia completă
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Cuprins
xxv | |
Part 2 Sporting Life | ciii |
Part 3 The Arm | ccxxxix |
Part 4 The Invisible City | 107 |
Afterword | 363 |
A Note on Sources | 381 |
Notes | 391 |
Index | 403 |