New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time

New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time

Author: Craig Taylor

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2021-03-23

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0393242331

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Winner of the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its people—from the best-selling author of Londoners. In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voices of some of the city’s best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in our time—and a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people. Best-selling author Craig Taylor has been hailed as “a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman” (David Rakoff), acclaimed for the way he “fuses the mundane truth of conversation with the higher truth of art” (Michel Faber). In the wake of his celebrated book Londoners, Taylor moved to New York and spent years meeting regularly with hundreds of New Yorkers as diverse as the city itself. New Yorkers features 75 of the most remarkable of them, their fascinating true tales arranged in thematic sections that follow Taylor’s growing engagement with the city. Here are the uncelebrated people who propel New York each day—bodega cashier, hospital nurse, elevator repairman, emergency dispatcher. Here are those who wire the lights at the top of the Empire State Building, clean the windows of Rockefeller Center, and keep the subway running. Here are people whose experiences reflect the city’s fractured realities: the mother of a Latino teenager jailed at Rikers, a BLM activist in the wake of police shootings. And here are those who capture the ineffable feeling of New York, such as a balloon handler in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or a security guard at the Statue of Liberty. Vibrant and bursting with life, New Yorkers explores the nonstop hustle to make it; the pressures on new immigrants, people of color, and the poor; the constant battle between loving the city and wanting to leave it; and the question of who gets to be considered a "New Yorker." It captures the strength of an irrepressible city that—no matter what it goes through—dares call itself the greatest in the world.


Native New Yorkers

Native New Yorkers

Author: Evan T. Pritchard

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1641603895

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To be stewards of the earth, not owners: this was the way of the Lenape. Considering themselves sacred land keepers, they walked gently; they preserved the world they inhabited. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, interviews with living Algonquin elders, and first-hand explorations of the ancient trails, burial grounds, and sacred sites, Native New Yorkers offers a rare glimpse into the civilization that served as the blueprint for modern New York. A fascinating history, supplemented with maps, timelines, and a glossary of Algonquin words, this book is an important and timely celebration of a forgotten people.


New York for New Yorkers

New York for New Yorkers

Author: Liza M. Greene

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780393020069

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Updated to include major new buildings of the last five years, this volume is a celebration of the buildings of New York City and their history with over 600 color photos.


The New Yorkers

The New Yorkers

Author: Cathleen Schine

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1429934441

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Inspired by her account in The New Yorker of adopting a profoundly troubled dog named Buster, acclaimed author Cathleen Schine's The New Yorkers is a brilliantly funny story of love, longing, and overcoming the shyness that leashes us. On a quiet little block near Central Park, five lonely New Yorkers find one another, compelled to meet by their canine companions. Over the course of four seasons, they emerge from their apartments, in snow, rain, or glorious sunshine to make friends and sometimes fall in love. A love letter to a city full of surprises, The New Yorkers is an enchanting comedy of manners (with dogs!) from one of our most treasured writers.


The Borowitz Report

The Borowitz Report

Author: Andy Borowitz

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-05-11

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1439129495

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Prepare to be shocked. From the man The Wall Street Journal hailed as a "Swiftean satirist" comes the most shocking book ever written! The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers, by award-winning fake journalist Andy Borowitz, contains page after page of "news stories" too hot, too controversial, too -- yes, shocking -- for the mainstream press to handle. Sample the groundbreaking reporting from the news organization whose motto is "Give us thirty minutes -- we'll waste it."


My City, My New York

My City, My New York

Author: Jeryl Brunner

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011-10-04

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0762777168

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What do famous people love to do during their free time in the Big Apple? Like all New Yorkers, even the well-known among them have cherished rituals that connect them to their city in a unique way—favorite restaurants, delis, museums, parks, galleries, landmarks, haunts, and hideaways. For one resident, it may be watching tango dancers on Saturday nights in Central Park; for another, it’s riding a bike over the Brooklyn Bridge to get a slice of Grimaldi’s pepperoni pizza and a view of the Manhattan skyline from across the East River. Perhaps it entails choosing from the many varieties of bread at Rock Hill Bake House in the Union Square Greenmarket or simply walking across 46th Street and ending up at the great Broadway hangout, Angus McIndoe. In a refreshing step beyond the usual travel guides and tourist listings, My City, My New York quotes VIPs and gives readers something truly unique: a chance to experience Manhattan the way its most notable luminary residents do. The activities and establishments included are diverse, often eclectic, and, most-importantly, nonexclusive––you don’t need to be a celebrity to enjoy them. While offering new and creative possibilities for exploration, My City, New York is also a love letter to the Big Apple and will touch even the most jaded New Yorkers. Celebrities include: - Matthew Broderick - Woody Allen - Bette Midler - Joan Rivers - Donald Trump - Chris Noth - Mayor Michael Bloomberg - Alex Rodriguez


Here is New York

Here is New York

Author: E. B. White

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2011-03-30

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 1590174798

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In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author’s stroll around Manhattan—with the reader arm-in-arm—remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. Here is New York has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. The New Yorker calls it “the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.”


Bloomberg's New York

Bloomberg's New York

Author: Julian Brash

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0820335665

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New York mayor Michael Bloomberg claims to run the city like a business. In Bloomberg's New York, Julian Brash applies methods from anthropology, geography, and other social science disciplines to examine what that means. He describes the mayor's attitude toward governance as the Bloomberg Way--a philosophy that holds up the mayor as CEO, government as a private corporation, desirable residents and businesses as customers and clients, and the city itself as a product to be branded and marketed as a luxury good. Commonly represented as pragmatic and nonideological, the Bloomberg Way, Brash argues, is in fact an ambitious reformulation of neoliberal governance that advances specific class interests. He considers the implications of this in a blow-by-blow account of the debate over the Hudson Yards plan, which aimed to transform Manhattan's far west side into the city's next great high-end district. Bringing this plan to fruition proved surprisingly difficult as activists and entrenched interests pushed back against the Bloomberg administration, suggesting that despite Bloomberg's success in redrawing the rules of urban governance, older political arrangements--and opportunities for social justice--remain.


The New York Nobody Knows

The New York Nobody Knows

Author: William B. Helmreich

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 0691169705

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"As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he 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. His epic journey lasted four years and took him to every corner of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Helmreich 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. Their stories and his are the subject of this captivating and highly original book. 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."--Publisher's description.


The Lifestyles of New Yorkers

The Lifestyles of New Yorkers

Author: Sampson Obeng

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2017-09-27

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1640279911

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To the best of my knowledge understandably when I first saw the New Yorkers, I was in a state of euphoria concerning the awesome lifestyles of the great people on earth. I choked out a few words the first time I interacted with them. I immediately realized there is so much more to explore about their characteristics and to create a highly readable novel about them to the world’s profundity of their lifestyles. Reading this novel will be more than ecstatic to add more time to your readings, and have you on the edge of your seat or bed, make you want to stay at one place to turn the last pages or finish the novel. So sweet without honey. Ecstatically, a great way to spend your ample time due to any action they take is complex and interesting scenario characters that deliver a good reading attention, an impressive array of characteristics. Writing about New Yorkers’ lifestyle is entertaining that blends them all beautifully together, never letting the novel drop, keeping the reading flawlessly intact, and riveting. Reading about New Yorkers has no stopping especially about their insatiable educational background that refutes the imbued from their respective parents. They are talented, expressive, sophisticated, sexy, beautiful, courageous, and controversial, tending to conform to societal norms when it comes to dress codes and celebrate their beauty with clothes that accentuate their style and look dreary and bereft and elegant. New Yorkers’ food IQ refrain from binging nonstop on an appalling diet of fried potato chips, jumbo sausages, fried eggs, and heavily salted bacon. They fix holiday period especially a scheduled period during which their activities in schools or other regular business are suspended. New Yorkers’ lifestyles in sports are phenomenal especially when it comes to the Super Bowl, with a giant appetite that stands a record breaker every year. Music was first originated in Africa, but the transformation of its quality digital sound has long been transferred to New York and America as a whole in decades. One of the best Christmas spectacular is the celebration of playing Santa Claus in a New York role. They wish the world all the best, and hope the coming year repeats all the best and eliminates all the worst of the past. New Yorkers celebrate July 4—Independence Day annually, and at sometimes remember that fireworks are illegal in New York City. Memorial Day is a special public holiday to commemorate American soldiers who died in wars, and New Yorkers’ patriotic tributes to honor and celebrate is awesome. New Yorkers have a uniquely diverse approach to Thanksgiving Day, a legal holiday marking the feast given in thanks for the harvest by the pilgrim colonists in 1621, celebrated on Thursdays in the month of November. New York parents have been treated exactly like kings and queens whether traditional or more unique in their Father’s and Mother’s days incessantly. New Yorkers’ Halloween celebrations are one of the biggest carnivals in the world. Valentine’s Day is the Christian feast day of Saint Valentine and the traditional day for sending a romantic card or gift, especially anonymously to somebody you love, on the date of February 14. As enunciated, few percentages of New Yorkers are gay and lesbian, and they’re pretty happy about the status. New York City’s New Year’s Eve ball drop countdown celebration is fun and entertaining to witness. The festivities in the middle of Times Square is held annually with millions of spectators around the world.