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Tenements, Towers & Trash
- An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
Engelsk Paperback
Tenements, Towers & Trash
- An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
Engelsk Paperback

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**A New York Times Notable Book of the Year**

Here is New York, as you''ve never seen it before! Acclaimed cartoonist Julia Wertz regales us with her triumphant, entertaining, and side-splittingly funny illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, the guts, and the little known charms (and horrors) of the greatest city in the world.

In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind, underneath, around, and into the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist''s 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 Kim''s Video, the complicated and unresolved business of Ray''s Pizza, the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn''s Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Island''s 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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780316582339
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0316582336
Udg. Dato:
29 maj 2025
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
196mm
Højde:
258mm
Forlag:
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
Oplagsdato:
29 maj 2025
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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