Downtown
Subtitle: my Manhattan
By: Pete Hamill
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780316734516
Subjects: Homes and haunts; American Authors; History
Description: A history of Manhattan from the perspective of a forty-year journalist conveys the author's intimate knowledge of the region's neighborhoods and people, from former 1920s speakeasies to the cobblestones of South Street Seaport.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1; title: The Capital of Nostalgia -- 3 -- 2; title: The First Downtown -- 27 -- 3; title: Trinity Country -- 55 -- 4; title: Velocity -- 79 -- 5; title: The Music of What Happens -- 103 -- 6; title: Park Row -- 132 -- 7; title: The Fifth Avenue -- 155 -- 8; title: On the Rialto -- 171 -- 9; title: Some Villages -- 191 -- 10; title: Crossroads of the World -- 232 -- 11; title: Envoi-- 269.