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Vanishing New York : how a great city lost its soul /

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 cul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moss, Jeremiah, 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Dey Street, an imprint of William Morrow, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
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.
Table of 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.