num_pages: 305
description: Pete Hamill is a New York native who has never stopped loving his city. In this memoir of his life there, he begins with his first sight of the skyline, from Brooklyn, when he was a boy, and goes on to walk the city's streets, from Times Square south to the tip of the island. Mixing history and architecture with personal recollections, Hamill conveys a deep appreciation for New York and an awareness that the basic tolerance New Yorkers develop toward each other is what holds the place together in all its staggering diversity.
language: English
title: Downtown: My Manhattan
titlecomplete: Downtown: My Manhattan
genres: Biography, The United States Of America, Memoir, Nonfiction, Essays, American History, Travel, New York, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 1438
publisher: Back Bay Books