Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City, Hardcover - Julia Wertz

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Here is New York, as youve never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertzs popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harpers.In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind the New York that you think you know. Not the tourists New York-the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all-but the guts, the underbelly, of this city that never sleeps. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Wertz regales us with streetscapes ``Then and Now`` and little-known tales, such as the lost history of Kims Video, the complicated and unresolved business of Rays Pizza, the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyns Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Islands secret abandoned boatyard, and the hair-raising legend of the infamous abortionist of Fifth Avenue, Madame Restell. From bars, bakeries, and bookstores to food carts, street cleaners, and apartments both cramped and grand, Tenements, Towers & Trash is a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.

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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers