num_pages: 288
description: Based on a three-year study conducted in Brooklyn's Greenpoint/Williamsburg section, this book is an in-depth, detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New York City's fiscal crisis of 1975-1978. Well-written, intelligent, and full of sensitively drawn portraits, it demonstrates the impact of political and economic changes on everyday lives.
language: English
title: Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood
titlecomplete: Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood
genres: Anthropology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 26
publisher: Oxford University Press