Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New YorkMacmillan + ORM, 8 mar. 2016 - 584 pagini The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: “A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves” (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city’s slums; the teeming streets—scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era’s opportunities for vice and entertainment—theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn’t work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city’s tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life is one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written—an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropolis, which has much to say not only about New York’s past but about the present and future of all cities. |
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... eventually known as Canal Street ) , and the drained pond was paved over , its site swiftly becoming the city's first slum . Canal Street was the city's northern limit through the 1820s , but by that time village clusters had sprung up ...
... eventually known as Canal Street ) , and the drained pond was paved over , its site swiftly becoming the city's first slum . Canal Street was the city's northern limit through the 1820s , but by that time village clusters had sprung up ...
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... eventually making itself wholly commercial up to Fifty - ninth Street . It did not , however , succeed in ridding itself of low life , which was substantial , though its dives , concert saloons , and gambling hells had a bit more tone ...
... eventually making itself wholly commercial up to Fifty - ninth Street . It did not , however , succeed in ridding itself of low life , which was substantial , though its dives , concert saloons , and gambling hells had a bit more tone ...
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... eventually became Park Row and Pearl Street , respectively . Its term as a quiet country lane lasted about a century ; its use as a highway by cattle drovers plying between the village downtown and the Bowery village that had grown near ...
... eventually became Park Row and Pearl Street , respectively . Its term as a quiet country lane lasted about a century ; its use as a highway by cattle drovers plying between the village downtown and the Bowery village that had grown near ...
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... eventually . Naturally , some halted there and never left , falling into the mire of drinking or prostitution or getting themselves murdered for their boots or maimed for their good looks . Very early , the Bowery acquired a reputation ...
... eventually . Naturally , some halted there and never left , falling into the mire of drinking or prostitution or getting themselves murdered for their boots or maimed for their good looks . Very early , the Bowery acquired a reputation ...
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... as the Dry Dock section around Tenth Street , and this shaded into and was eventually overtaken by the Jewish territory , radiating outward from a outward from a center that could be putatively located at Rutgers ( later Straus ) Square ,
... as the Dry Dock section around Tenth Street , and this shaded into and was eventually overtaken by the Jewish territory , radiating outward from a outward from a center that could be putatively located at Rutgers ( later Straus ) Square ,
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