While THE GREAT GATSBY famously depicted the indulgences of the 1920s, there’s another tale that I think is crucial to this discussion: THE OTHER TYPIST. 8.

It has been on my bookshelf since I arrived in New York for graduate school. She makes friends with a maid and begins to explore downtown New York, filled with jazz and heroin. For anyone who shares a love for the city, and has an interest in Rose is an odd duck, as restrained as the times are not, working as a police typist in a downtown Manhattan precinct. getting a little dose of its history, here’s a list of books to get started. There’s the story of the New York childhood or the New York romance, often intensely nostalgic, in which the city’s pleasurable surfaces mould around the characters – a metropolitan cocoon. The history and names of the people connected to that history is an added bonus.”—Jim Mackin, “A memoir by a writer and editor captures the exhilarating and romantic mood of 1950s New York City.
having lived here for years, I’m not immune to the city’s (unique) charm, which

7. Set in the city during the nineteenth century, THE PARTING GLASS is the perfect upstairs/downstairs story, mixed with a little romance and mystery. "—Dan Wakin, author of The Man with the Sawed-Off Leg and Other Tales of a New York City Block, A massive tome that’s good for “a quick understanding of any ancillary place or person or event that might arise in your research.”—Dan Wakin. How to find a spycam in your place, stop your harassing neighbor, & more, I live next to the Williamsburg Bridge. Acclaimed character actress Saoirse Ronan takes center stage as Eilis Lacey, a young woman who abandons small-town Ireland and the comfort of her mother's home for the anonymous shores of New York City. There’s the story in which the city stands for money, quicksilver and dangerous, a solvent of all possible desires. It’s dicey at night, but good for my stand up comedy routine, Defending the new rent laws, NYC's missing streets, & more, Architects propose a redesign for NYCHA buildings with private outdoor space, Here are 5 spacious houses for sale in Peekskill, New York, Here are 5 houses for sale in Cooperstown if you want more outdoor space, American Institute of Architects Guide to New York City, Empire City: New York through the Centuries, The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Neighborhoods in New York City 1908-1929, Greenwich Village Society for Preservation, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn of the Century New York, Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex 1790-1920, Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age, The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011, Follow the yellow brick: Tracing Ridgewood's history through a single picturesque block, 5 ways to dig up historical photos of your NYC apartment building, Talking armored car robbery, Upper West Side nostalgia, and more with author Dan Wakin, How to save money on your NYC bathroom renovation: Where to skimp and where to splurge, I negotiated a lower rent when renewing my lease. In a city with as many moods as New York, and as many ethnic histories running in parallel, fiction is essential transportation. Entries range from something as simple as the birth date of a New York City celebrity to a rundown of a major event. Although it focuses on a specific place and time, reading this novel is like experiencing the wonder and struggles of growing into yourself, and Smith expertly depicts the Williamsburg world in the early 1900s so that it feels tangible. 1. By clicking 'Sign Up' I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the privacy policy and terms of use. Its 7,000 people were English and Dutch merchants and west African slaves; it was xenophobic and aggressively pious; it was loyalist in its politics and provincial in its culture; and everybody knew everybody else’s business. . It’s particularly good for its chronicle of incidents and milestones of colonial New York/New Amsterdam, as many history books don’t go back that far and in such detail.”—Adrienne Onofri, “Tager puts some quickly scannable historical context at your fingertips. There’s the story of the rube from Oklahoma or Texas, for whom on the contrary the city scarcely seems American at all. Obsessions! Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 07.50 EST. Some were published recently, and others are decades old. Even if you saw the movie, the book is worth the read. “If I have all the tears that are shed on Broadway by guys in love, I will have enough salt water to start an opposition ocean to the Atlantic and Pacific, with enough left over to run the Great Salt Lake out of business.”.

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