New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times

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New York Stories

The Best of the City Section of the New York Times

Herausgegeben von: Constance Rosenblum

Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 2005

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The City Section of The New York Times shows us "real New Yorkers".

“There are eight million stories in the Naked City.” This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City itself. One publication cultivating many of New York City's greatest stories is the City section in The New York Times. Each Sunday, this section of The New York Times, distributed only in papers in the five boroughs, captivates readers with tales of people and places that make the city unique.
Featuring a cast of stellar writers—Phillip Lopate, Vivian Gornick, Thomas Beller and Laura Shaine Cunningham, among others—New York Stories brings some of the best essays from the City section to readers around the country. New Yorkers can learn something new about their city, while other readers will enjoy the flavor of the Big Apple. New York Stories profiles people like sixteen-year-old Barbara Ott, who surfs the waters off Rockaway in Queens, and Sonny Payne, the beloved panhandler of the F train. Other essays explore memorable places in the city, from the Greenwich Village townhouse blown up by radical activists in the 1970s to a basketball court that serves as the heart of its Downtown neighborhood.
The forty essays collected in New York Stories reflect an intimate understanding of the city, one that goes beyond the headlines. The result is a passionate, well-written portrait of a legendary and ever-evolving place.

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Rosenblum Constance :

Constance Rosenblum, most recently the author of the Habitats column published in the Real Estate section of The New York Times, was a longtime editor of the paper’s City section and a former editor of the Times’s Arts and Leisure section. She is the author of Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.

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A reminder that there are stories still untold in New York, and writers hard at work to find them for us.

Rosenblum, who edits the City section, has collected 40 representative pieces that showcase the ups and downs of life in a metropolis that still exerts a gravitational pull on those seeking their fortune. Many of the essays are by well-known authors, such as Jan Morris, Phillip Lopate and Vivian Gornick, but others, equally winning, are by emerging writers. All of the pieces are engrossing and share a painstaking attention to craft. … This is both an excellent addition to New York history and a pleasure for casual browsing.

You don't have to have a particular interest in the Big Apple to pick up this book. These are stories of human life in all its quirky richness. . . . New York Stories is a series of love letters to a city that, for all its problems and peculiarities, beckons people from all over the world.

Given the subject matter, it should come as no surprise that the pieces evoke a powerful sense of place. Coming as this does from the pages of the New York Times, it is also no surprise that the material is of high literary caliber.

This collection of engaging stories will appeal to a broad range of adult readers interested in pushing back the concealing vapors of legend to discover the otherwise hidden gears and cogs that keep the enchanted ideal of New York City humming smoothly along.

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Literaturwissenschaft Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur, allgemein

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	xi
Introduction Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	1
Part I A Sense of Place
1 The House on West 11th Street: Three Decades After Young Radicals Blew Up an Elegant Brownstone in Greenwich Village, Echoes of the Blast Linger Mel Gussow Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	5
2 Spanish Harlem on His Mind: As Latinos From Many Lands Stream Into New York, Puerto Ricans Watch, Remembering a Time El Barrio Was Theirs Alone Ed Morales Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	17
3 The Old Neighbors: Who Lives Where We Live? Who Sprinted Down This Hall, Smelled Spring From This Window? In a City Where the Past Is Ever Present, Tracing the Footsteps of Those Who Came Before Is a Haunting Journey Jim Rasenberger Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	25
4 Everyone Knows This Is Somewhere, Part I: An Englishman Finds Himself in the City of His Childhood Dreams, a Strange, Lofty, Urgent Presence, Beckoning Westward. Glyn Maxwell Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	32
5 Everyone Knows This Is Somewhere, Part II: He Journeyed From the Frozen Wastes of the Great Plains in Search of New York City Cool. He May Have Found It Chuck Klosterman Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	36
6 Nothing But Net: The Basketball Court Was Just a Patch of Asphalt in a West Village Playground, an Empty Page in the Urban Landscape. It Needed Players to Give It Meaning. Thomas Beller Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	41
7 New York’s Rumpus Room: For Nearly 150 Years, Central Park Has Been the City’s Endlessly Changing, All-Frills Heart. It’s Hard to Imagine New York Without It. Witold Rybczynski Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	49
8 Manhattan ’03: The Attacks of September 11 Prompted People Around the World to Articulate How Much New York Means to Them Jan Morris Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	55
9 Back to the Home Planet: My East Side, No-Name Nabe Robert Lipsyte Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	63
10 Latte on the Hudson: New York’s Original Starbucks Has Closed. But 162 Remain, and a Day Idled Away in One of Them Reveals That These Marvels of Engineered Mood Have Become the City’s Ultimate Study Halls, Offices and Village Green Patricia Volk Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	67
11 Screech, Memory: The No. 2 Train Roared By Not 25 Yards From His Childhood Bedroom, Punctuating All the Rites of His Bronx Youth Richard Price Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	75
12 Bungalow Chic: Discovering the Romance of Rockaway, That Peninsula With an Esteem Problem Jill Eisenstadt Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	81
13 The Allure of the Ledge: Working Close to the Clouds, the Window Washer Is the Ultimate Risk Taker, the Ultimate Voyeur Ivor Hanson Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	87
14 There’s No Place Like Home. But There’s . . . No Place: A Long Hunt for an Apartment Uncovers Triple Bunk Beds, a Kitchen-Cum-Shower—and Some Insights Into the True Meaning of Home Tara Bahrampour Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	95
15 The Town That Gags Its Writers: The Buzz and Banter of New York, a Novelist Argues, Can Make It Hard to Hear Your Own Voice. Try Gainesville David Leavitt Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	105
16 Rockaway Idyll: Eight in a Bungalow, $250 Each, for a Summer of Stars and Waves Field Maloney Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	111
17 Waiting to Exhale: In a Town of Towers and Tight Spaces, Claustrophobics Yearn to Breathe Free Katherine Marsh Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	119
18 A “Law and Order” Addict Tells All: The TV Series Is a Hit Around the Country. But Its Heart Beats to a New York Rhythm, for Us and Us Alone. Molly Haskell Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	127
19 Look Away: The Unwritten Law of Survival in the Teeming City Siri Hustvedt Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	135
20 On the Run: New York, Fast Paced and Deeply Social, Taught Him to Love to Smoke. Now the City Has Changed Its Mind and Demands That He Do the Same Denny Lee Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	139
21 Marriage of Inconvenience? She Was Living Young and Carefree in the East Village. Then Came the Robbery Suki Kim Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	147
22 Rain, Rain, Come Again: When It Pours in the City, There’s a Sense of Limited Possibilities. That’s Not So Bad Meg Wolitzer Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	151
23 The Agony of Victory: The Yankees Have Won 26 World Series Titles and 38 Pennants. The Giants, Knicks, Jets, Rangers—Even the Mets—Win Once in a While, Too. So Why Do New York Fans Whine So Much? Joe Queenan Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	155
24 Street Legal, Finally: Married. Divorced. In Your 40’s. Life Has Its Stops and Starts. Getting Your Driver’s License Is One of Them Suzanne Vega Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	163
25 Time Out: Loving the Sport. Hating the Scene. Confessions of a Reluctant Soccer Dad André Aciman Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	171
26 Wild Masonry, Murderous Metal and Mr. Blonde: An Electrical Mistake, an Accidental Death. New Yorkers Learn That Even Their Powerful City Must Kneel Before the Random Hand of Fate Jerome Charyn Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	175
Part III New Yorkers
27 Love’s Labors: She and Her Husband Roamed the World in Search of Exotic Plants. Now, Alone in a Bronx Office, Celia Maguire Tends to His Legacy Laura Shaine Cunningham Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	179
28 Ballpark of Memory: Decades Ago, Lawrence Ritter Journeyed From the West Side to Roam the Country in Search of Baseball’s Past. He Came Back With Perhaps the Best Book Ever Written on the Sport David Margolick Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	189
29 The Paper Chase: The Collyer Brothers, Harlem’s Legendary Pack Rats, Offer a Gruesome Cautionary Tale Franz Lidz Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	197
30 The War Within: A Brand-New New Yorker, He Is Enchanted by the Storied City. But His Tour of Duty in Iraq Has Clouded His View of Himself and of His Adopted Home David C. Botti Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	205
31 Uptown Girl: In Researching Her Book on the South Bronx, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Absorbed Its Poverty, Its Toughness, Its Glacial Pace. She Also Rediscovered Herself. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	213
32 My Friend Lodovico: Finding a Soul Mate on Upper Fifth Avenue David Masello Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	221
33 Fare-Beater Inc. A Former Seminarian Found His True Calling in the Subtle Art of Sluggery Jim Dwyer Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	225
34 The Ballad of Sonny Payne: The Subway Is Filled With Panhandlers. But Perhaps None Is as Beloved as the Man With the White Beard and Gentle Eyes Who Moves Through the F Train Steven Kurutz Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	229
Part IV City Lore
35 The White Baby: In the Botanicas of Spanish Harlem, the Spirits Are Asked to Grant Prayers. But Long Ago, a Visitor Learns, the Gods Cruelly Mocked One Man’s Wish. Ernesto Quiñonez Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	237
36 New York, Brick by Brick: The AIA Guide, That Admiring, Classic Work on New York’s Ad Hoc, Additive Architecture, Offers Its First New Edition in More Than a Decade. Phillip Lopate Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	247
37 Memory’s Curveball: Thick With the Glaze of Age, the Baseball Evoked Thoughts of a Legendary Team. But It Was Not What It Seemed. Dan Barry Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	253
38 My Neighborhood, Its Fall and Rise: Safe But Dreary in the 50’s, the West Farms Area of the Bronx Had Grown Desolate in the 70’s. Now It’s on the Mend Vivian Gornick Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	261
39 Ship of Dreams: In 1780, H.M.S Hussar Sank Near Hell Gate. Joseph Governali Was in Hot Pursuit, With Good Reason: Legend Says the Frigate Was Laden With Gold Tom Vanderbilt Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	269
40 The Day the Boy Fell From the Sky: Decades Later, a Park Slope Nurse Remembers Wendell Jamieson Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	277
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	285
ABOUT THE EDITOR Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	291

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1. Mai 2005

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https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814769355.001.0001

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