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Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
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ISBN10: 0316582336
ISBN13: 9780316582339
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Published: May 6 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 2.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 7.60 Depth: 10.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780316582339
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Published: May 6 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 2.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 7.60 Depth: 10.10
Language: English
An acclaimed cartoonist presents New York City as you've never seen it before, with a 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 underbelly of the 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. **A New York Times Notable Book of the Year**
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