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. 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. |
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Uptown, there were farms, some of them large and prosperous; small settlements
at Bloomingdale, Yorkville, Manhattanville, Carmanville; and shantytowns. These
were slap-up encampments (the Bohemia of the Poor, someone called them) ...
... culminated in the cataclysmic riots of 1901, when battles ranged throughout the
blocks between Twenty-fifth and Thirty-seventh Streets west of Eighth Avenue,
which contributed mightily to the black migration farther uptown a few years later.
It could be said, too, without being overly reductive, that while assimilation moved
uptown, success moved inland, toward the fabled Fifth Avenue. Immigrants or
their children who made good could map their progress by increments ...
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Comentariu Utilizator - datrappert - LibraryThingIt took me much longer than it should have to finish this book, because I was constantly putting it down to look up people on Wikipedia or to track down referenced books on Project Gutenberg or ... Citiți recenzia completă
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Comentariu Utilizator - EricCostello - LibraryThingA generally good book, with a handful of flaws. Sante, in this volume, gives an oversight of what New York City was like from roughly the 1830s to the end of World War I, going through various aspects ... Citiți recenzia completă
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 |