Gateway to the Promised Land
Subtitle: Ethnic Cultures on New York's Lower East Side (Amsterdam Monographs in American Studies) (Amsterdam Monographs in American Studies)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Published: January 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9789051836776
Subjects: History: American; New York - Local History; Ethnic Sociology
First sentence: The walker in the city who takes St. Mark's Place at Third Avenue and from there heads east, crossing first the numbered and then the lettered avenues, and from Avenue D proceeds to the knot of streets below East Houston Street, discovers one of New York's most complex realities.