num_pages: 180
description: 1970s New York City: Go-go dancers The Peppermint Lounge gangsters Billys Topless and Stephanie JohnsonIn 2019 Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson but shes better known to HONY followers as Tanqueray the indefatigable woman who was once one of the best-known burlesque dancers in New York City. Brandon Stanton chronicled her life in the longest series he had yet posted on HONY but now Stephanie Johnsona woman as fabulous unbowed and irresistible as the city she lives intells all in Tanqueray a book filled with never-before-told stories personal photos from her own collection and glimpses of New York City back in the day when the name Tanqueray was on everyones lips.
language: English
title: Tanqueray
publisher: St. Martin's Press