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Résumé : Photographer Camilo José Vergara has been chronicling the neighborhood for forty-three years, and Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto is an unprecedented record of urban change. Vergara began his documentation of Harlem in the tradition of such masters as Helen Levitt and Aaron Siskind, and he later turned his focus on the neighborhood’s urban fabric, both the buildings that compose it and the life and culture embedded in them. By repeatedly returning to the same locations over the course of decades, Vergara is able to show us a community that is constantly changing—some areas declining, as longtime businesses give way to empty storefronts, graffiti, and garbage, while other areas gentrify, with corporate chain stores coming in to compete with the mom-and-pops. He also captures the ever-present street life of this densely populated neighborhood, from stoop gatherings to graffiti murals memorializing dead rappers to impersonators honoring Michael Jackson in front of the Apollo, as well as the growth of tourism and racial integration. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : "A timely update of the authoritative, engaging history of Wall Street and its role in the economic history of the United States and the world" -- source : éditeur

Résumé : James and Karla Murray have been capturing impeccable photographs from the streets of New York City since the 1990s; Store Front II chronicles their continued efforts to document a little-known but vitally important cross-section of New York's Mom and Pop economy. The Murrays' penetrating photographs are only half the story, though. In the course of their travels throughout the city's boroughs the Murrays have taken great care to document the stories behind the scenery. Their copious background texts, gleaned largely from interviews with the stores' owners and employees, bring wonderful color and nuance to the importance of these unique one-off establishments. The Murrays have rendered the out of the way bodegas, candy shops and record stores just as faithfully as the historically important institutions and well known restaurants, bars and cafes. From the Stonewall Inn to the Brownsville Bike Shop and The Pink Pussycat to Smith and Wolensky, the Murrays reveal how New York's long-standing mom & pop businesses stand in sharp contrast to the city's rapidly evolving corporate facade. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : Une présentation de New York à travers ses habitants aux multiples origines, ses inégalités, ses rues, ses créateurs et leurs oeuvres cinématographiques, littéraires, musicales mais aussi les portraits d'acteurs de la finance et de l'industrie. ©Electre 2023

Résumé : Evocation de cette ville aux mille visages à travers son histoire, ses faubourgs, ses lieux de promenade, et en puisant dans sa mémoire, la musique, la littérature, l'architecture, le cinéma... Propose une anthologie littéraire, structurée autour de grands thèmes (mythes, immigration, ascension sociale et verticale, excès...) et des principaux lieux, et un dictionnaire de près de 500 entrées.

Résumé : De nos jours, New York est l'une des villes les plus importantes au monde d'un point de vue économique, politique et culturel. Si la statue de la Liberté et la ligne des gratte-ciel sont des images universelles, il est difficile d'imaginer comment, en presque quatre siècles, la petite colonie de quelques centaines d'Indiens, d'Européens et d'Africains est devenue non seulement la plus grande ville des États-Unis, mais également la plus dense et la plus diverse. Organisé de manière thématique et chronologique, ce livre nous raconte la fondation de la Nouvelle-Amsterdam et le rôle joué par New York dans plusieurs des épisodes fondamentaux de l'histoire des États-Unis. A travers les chapitres sur l'industrialisation de la ville, son rôle de terre d'accueil pour de nombreux immigrants et sa croissance autour des cinq boroughs : la légendaire New York prend vie. Le livre souligne aussi l'implication de la ville dans les domaines de la littérature, de la musique, de la mode et de l'art. Au fur et à mesure des chapitres, la grande diversité de New York est mise en valeur.

Résumé : In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national to global prominence — an urban dynamo driven by restless ambition, boundless energy, immigrant dreams, and Wall Street greed. Within the first two decades of the twentieth century, a newly consolidated New York grew exponentially. The city exploded into the air, with skyscrapers jostling for prominence, and dove deep into the bedrock where massive underground networks of subways, water pipes, and electrical conduits sprawled beneath the city to serve a surging population of New Yorkers from all walks of life. New York was transformed in these two decades as the world's second-largest city and now its financial capital, thriving and sustained by the city's seemingly unlimited potential. Wallace's new book matches its predecessor in pure page-turning appeal and takes America's greatest city to new heights. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : L'histoire de New York et de ses immigrations successives, depuis l'arrivée des protestants européens, des Irlandais, des Allemands et des Italiens qui fuyaient la misère sévissant dans leur pays, jusqu'au XXe siècle. ©Electre 2018

Résumé : Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to New York’s streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it taken to the streets without controversy: 1819 was the year of the city’s first bicycle and also its first bicycle ban. Debates around the bicycle’s place in city life have been so persistent not just because of its many uses—recreation, sport, transportation, business—but because of changing conceptions of who cyclists are. In On Bicycles, Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how it has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics since it first appeared. It has been central, as when horse-drawn carriages shared the road with bicycle lanes in the 1890s; peripheral, when Robert Moses’s car-centric vision made room for bicycles only as recreation; and aggressively marginalized, when Ed Koch’s battle against bike messengers culminated in the short-lived 1987 Midtown Bike Ban. On Bicycles illuminates how the city as we know it today—veined with over a thousand miles of bicycle lanes—reflects a fitful journey powered, and opposed, by New York City’s people and its politics. - Note de l'éditeur

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