Habitats : private lives in the big city / Constance Rosenblum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenblum, Constance.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dwellings--New York (State)--New York--History--21st century.

Dwellings.

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--21st century.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There may be eight million stories in the Naked City, but there are also nearly three million dwelling places, ranging from Park Avenue palaces to Dickensian garrets and encompassing much in between. The doorways to these residences are tantalizing portals opening onto largely invisible lives. Habitats offers 40 vivid and intimate stories about how New Yorkers really live in their brownstones, their apartments, their mansions, their lofts, and as a whole presents a rich, multi-textured portrait of what it means to make a home in the world’s most varied and powerful city. These essays, expanded versions of a selection of the Habitats column published in the Real Estate section of The New York Times, take readers to both familiar and remote sections of the city—to history-rich townhouses, to low-income housing projects, to out-of-the-way places far from the beaten track, to every corner of the five boroughs—and introduce them to a wide variety of families and individuals who call New York home. These pieces reveal a great deal about the city’s past and its rich store of historic dwellings. Along with exploring the deep and even mystical connections people feel to the place where they live, these pieces, taken as a whole, offer a mosaic of domestic life in one of the world’s most fascinating cities and a vivid portrait of the true meaning of home in the 21st-century metropolis.

Contents:

Habitats

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Starting Out

1. His Hacienda in the Sky

2. A Single Man Buys a Home for Someday

3. Very Bushwick and Very Fabulous

4. Southern Shimmer

Starting Over

5. The House of Open Arms

6. Her Cottage by the Sea

7. Here I Am. And Here We Are.

Living with Ghosts

8. The House That Saved His Life

9. And for Compensation, the View

10. The Domestication of a Dive

11. A Man and His Miscellany

12. A Beach Bungalow with a Magnetic Pull

13. The Almost Landless Gardener

14. Lair and Sanctuary in the South Bronx

Creative Types

15. The Traveling Circus Stops Here

16. For a Writer, a Home with a Hideout

17. Where Wit Pays the Rent

18. The Art of Sparkle

19. Her Second Home, the One without Wheels

20. Magic Moments

21. Caretakers of a Culture

22. Paradise Found

23. Trim Jim Creates a Masterpiece

Old Stomping Grounds

24. Ensconced in the Bronx

25. Over the Family Store, Staff Quarters

26. With Sky and the Weather for Neighbors

27. A Hand-Me-Down Home

28. The Leader of the Cheers

29. A Moment of Remarkable Optimism

30. Elastic Elegance

31. Elephants for Luck

32. A Young Life

33. The Rebel Girl of Borough Park

Palaces and Jewel Boxes

34. For a Family, Elaborate Elbow Room

35. Enter, Hammering

36. Pocket-Sized on West 47th Street

37. Ardent Admirer, Devoted Steward

Nesting

38. Kitten Heaven

39. With Family Built In

40. Threading the Needle on West 12th Street

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-7155-6

OCLC:

828793023