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Helmreich, William B.
Subjects
Neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York.
Community life -- New York (State) -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Civilization -- 21st century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
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Helmreich, William B.
Neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York.
Community life -- New York (State) -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Civilization -- 21st century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
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The
New
York
nobody knows : walking 6,000 miles in the city / William B. Helmreich.
by
Helmreich, William B.
Princeton University Press, [2013]
Call #:
917.471 H481n
Subjects
Neighborhoods
--
New
York
(State)
--
New
York
.
Community life
--
New
York
(State)
--
New
York
.
New
York
(
N
.Y.)
--
Social conditions
--
21st
century
.
New
York
(
N
.Y.)
--
Social life and customs
--
21st
century
.
New
York
(
N
.Y.)
--
Civilization
--
21st
century
.
New
York
(
N
.Y.)
--
Description and travel.
New
York
(
N
.Y.)
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9780691144054 (hc.)
0691144052 (hc.)
Description:
xv, 449 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-436) and index.
Summary:
"William Helmreich decided that the only way to truly understand
New
York
was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs
--
an astonishing 6,000 miles, a journey which lasted four years and took him to every corner of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. He spoke with hundreds of
New
Yorkers from every part of the globe and from every walk of life, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former mayors Rudolph Giuliani, David Dinkins, and Edward Koch. We meet the Guyanese immigrant who grows beautiful flowers outside his modest Queens residence in order to always remember the homeland he left behind, the Brooklyn-raised grandchild of Italian immigrants who illuminates a window of his brownstone with the family's old neon grocery-store sign, and many, many others. Helmreich draws on firsthand insights to examine essential aspects of urban social life such as ethnicity, gentrification, and the use of space. He finds that to be a
New
Yorker is to struggle to understand the place and to make a life that is as highly local as it is dynamically cosmopolitan. William B. Helmreich is professor of sociology at City University Graduate Center (CUNY) and City College of
New
York
"--Provided by publisher.
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