| Description |
viii, 404 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [376]-390) and index. |
| Contents |
New Amsterdam noir : the dark nights of Dutch Manhattan -- Rattle watch nights : city streets after sundown, from Peter Stuyvesant to the early republic -- Hearthside and rushlight : old New York at home -- Broadway after dark : pleasures and horrors of federal New York -- "Bowery gals will you come out to-night?" : nighttime on the Bowery before the Civil War -- "Under the rain of gaslights" : from the Civil War to the gilded and gruesome 1870s -- Electric costumes and brass knuckles : glamour, crime, sports, and the commercialization of night in the 1890s -- Mr. Dieter vanishes, November 1923 : the Volstead Act, jazz, and Earl Carroll's Vanities -- From poorhouse to penthouse and back : at home, homeless, and on the town in the mid-1930s -- When the lights went out : World War II, the 1950s, and the suburbanization of night -- Full moon over the Stonewall : the gay epiphany, discomania, and the surfacing of hidden night. |
| Subject |
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
|
|
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
|
|
Night -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
|
|
Street life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
|
|
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
|
|
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
|
| ISBN |
0743242769 |
| Standard No. |
9780743242769 |
|
