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Author Moss, Jeremiah, 1971- author.

Title Vanishing New York : how a great city lost its soul / Jeremiah Moss.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, 2017.
©2017

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 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  307.34 MOSS    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-442) and index.
Contents The East Village -- Hyper-gentrification in the revanchist city -- Ludlow Street and the Lower East Side -- The battle for New York's soul -- The Bowery -- The neoliberal turn -- Little Italy -- September 11 -- Greenwich Village -- Bloomberg -- The Gold Coast of Bleecker Street -- In the new New York -- High Line 1: the meatpacking district -- The new gilded age and the Enron society -- Chelsea -- On the sidewalk -- High Line 2: West Chelsea to Hudson Yards -- The trouble with tourists -- Times Square -- Suburbanizing the city -- Harlem and East Harlem -- Gentrifiers and the new manifest destiny -- Brooklyn -- Coney Island -- Queens -- The South Bronx -- On memory and forgetting -- Conclusion.
Summary "An unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York. For generations, New York City has been a mecca for artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be part of its rich cultural exchange and unique social fabric. But today, modern gentrification is transforming the city from an exceptional, iconoclastic metropolis into a suburbanized luxury zone with a price tag only the one percent can afford."--Jacket flap.
Subject Gentrification -- New York (State) -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951-
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Gentrification. (OCoLC)fst00940296
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Chronological Term Since 1900
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780062439697
0062439693
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