Manhattan Nobody Knows (eBook)

An Urban Walking Guide

William B. Helmreich (Autor)

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2018
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-9041-5 (ISBN)

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William B. Helmreich is the author of many books, including The Brooklyn Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guideand The New York Nobody Knows, which won the Guides Association of New York Award for Outstanding Achievement in Book Writing. He is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City College of New York's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and at CUNY Graduate Center.

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A one-of-a-kind walking guide to Manhattan, from the man who walked every block in New York CityBill Helmreich walked every block of New York City-six-thousand miles in all-to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Later, he re-walked most of Manhattan-721 miles-to write this new, one-of-a-kind walking guide to the heart of one of the world's greatest cities. Drawing on hundreds of conversations he had with residents during his block-by-block journey, The Manhattan Nobody Knows captures the unique magic and excitement of the island and highlights hundreds of facts, places, and points of interest that you won't find in any other guide.The guide covers every one of Manhattan's thirty-one distinct neighborhoods, from Marble Hill to the Financial District, providing a colorful portrait of each area's most interesting, unusual, and unfamiliar people, places, and things. Along the way you'll be introduced to an elderly Inwood man who lives in a cave; a Greenwich Village townhouse where Weathermen terrorists set up a bomb factory; a Harlem apartment building whose residents included W.E.B. DuBois and Thurgood Marshall; a tiny community garden attached to the Lincoln Tunnel; a Washington Heights pizza joint that sells some of the biggest slices in town; the story behind the "e;Birdman"e; of Washington Square Park; and much, much more. An unforgettably vivid chronicle of today's Manhattan, the book can also be enjoyed without ever leaving home-but it's almost guaranteed to inspire you to get out and explore this fascinating metropolis.Covers every one of Manhattan's neighborhoods, providing a colorful portrait of their most interesting, unusual, and unfamiliar people, places, and thingsEach neighborhood section features a brief overview and history; a detailed, user-friendly map keyed to the text; and a lively guided walking tourDraws on the author's 721-mile walk through every Manhattan neighborhoodIncludes insights from conversations with hundreds of residents

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.12.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 25 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 133rd Street (Manhattan) • 155th Street (Manhattan) • 181st Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line) • 47th Street (Manhattan) • 52nd Street (Manhattan) • 54th Street (Manhattan) • 55th Street (Manhattan) • 57th Street (Manhattan) • 66th Street (Manhattan) • 72nd Street (Manhattan) • 74th Street (Manhattan) • 79th Street (Manhattan) • 85th Street (Manhattan) • 89th Street (Manhattan) • 93rd Street (Manhattan) • 96th Street (Manhattan) • alley • Alphabet City, Manhattan • anti-establishment • Apartment • Avenue A (Manhattan) • Avenue B (Manhattan) • Avenue C (Manhattan) • Avenue D (Manhattan) • Bakery • Battery Park City • bohemianism • Boutique • Brookfield Place (New York City) • Brooklyn College • Broome Street • Bushwick, Brooklyn • City College of New York • City Place • Cleopatra's Needle (New York) • Collapse of the World Trade Center • Columbus Park (Manhattan) • commercial area • Confucius Plaza • Counterculture • defection • Dim Sum • Diner • Down Town Association • Dyckman Street • East Broadway (Manhattan) • East Harlem • East Village, Manhattan • Eighth Avenue (Manhattan) • Eleventh Avenue (Manhattan) • False door • fertility • flightless bird • Fraud • Gentrification • Gramercy Park • Greenwich Avenue • Greenwich Street • Greenwich Village • Harlem • Harlem River • Hester Street (Manhattan) • Holland Tunnel • Homelessness • Hudson River • Hudson River Park • Hudson Square • Hudson Street (Manhattan) • income • Jerry Seinfeld • John Wanamaker • Little Boxes • Lower East Side • Ludlow Street (Manhattan) • Manhattan • Manhattan Valley • Mercer Street • Midtown Manhattan • Morningside Drive (Manhattan) • Morningside Heights, Manhattan • Moscow on the Hudson • Mulberry Street (Manhattan) • Mural • name-dropping • nepotism • New York City • New York City Housing Authority • new york harbor • New York Restoration Project • nightclub • NoHo, Manhattan • Not for Sale (organization) • One57 • opium den • Orchard Street (Manhattan) • polygyny • poor folk • Poverty • Prostitution • Public housing • Queens–Midtown Tunnel • Racism • Reverse commute • rikers island • Robert de Niro • Rundown (Scientology) • Second Avenue (Manhattan) • Single-family detached home • Single room occupancy • Sixth Avenue (Manhattan) • Skyscraper • Slum • Staten Island • Statue • Stone Street (Manhattan) • Streets (ice cream) • Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village • Technology • Tenement • Terraced House • The Bronx • The New York Times • The New York Times Building • The Wall Street journal • Tile • Tompkins Square Park • Tom Wolfe • Tribeca • Unemployment • University Place (Manhattan) • Upper East Side • Upper Manhattan • Upper West Side • Upstate New York • walkway • war • Wealth • West Broadway • West Side (Manhattan) • West Village
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-9041-1 / 1400890411
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-9041-5 / 9781400890415