Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New YorkFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 8 mar. 2016 - 464 pagini Lucy Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. |
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... later punk mannerisms, coming full circle with the aesthetic that developed in the mid-1970s around CBGB's, the now venerable club actually located on the Bowery. There are other places in Manhattan that are thick with | Pref a c e ...
... later, as settlement moved northward, realized in one grand plan, all except the very uppermost part, where order was finally sacrificed to the dictates of topography. This is, in fact, more or less what happened. The Dutch village of ...
... local authorities authorized funds for a public works project to subdue the population. A canal was built east and west (later to be filled in and eventually known as Canal Street), and the drained pond was s . The B O D Y - J - 5.
... later, after legal challenges by rival hatters nearby. Broadway always was the first thoroughfare to benefit from innovations: the first sidewalk, built of brick, between Vesey and Murray Streets in the mid-1700s; the first numbered ...
... later nineteenth century there was also enough of a nativeborn element to constitute a significant Nativist presence. Essentially, though, the mob was unpredictable and uncontrollable; when the district arose as an entity, its power ...
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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 |