Vanishing New York : how a great city lost its soul / Jeremiah Moss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moss, Jeremiah, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gentrification--New York (State)--New York.

Gentrification.

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Manners and customs.

New York (N.Y.)--History--1951-.

History.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, 2017.

Summary:

"An unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York. For generations, New York City has been a mecca for artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be part of its rich cultural exchange and unique social fabric. But today, modern gentrification is transforming the city from an exceptional, iconoclastic metropolis into a suburbanized luxury zone with a price tag only the one percent can afford."--Jacket flap.

Contents:

The East Village

Hyper-gentrification in the revanchist city

Ludlow Street and the Lower East Side

The battle for New York's soul

The Bowery

The neoliberal turn

Little Italy

September 11

Greenwich Village

Bloomberg

The Gold Coast of Bleecker Street

In the new New York

High Line 1: the meatpacking district

The new gilded age and the Enron society

Chelsea

On the sidewalk

High Line 2: West Chelsea to Hudson Yards

The trouble with tourists

Times Square

Suburbanizing the city

Harlem and East Harlem

Gentrifiers and the new manifest destiny

Brooklyn

Coney Island

Queens

The South Bronx

On memory and forgetting

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-442) and index.

ISBN:

9780062439697

0062439693

OCLC:

960707363