Gateways to the Promised Land
Subtitle: Ethnicity and Culture in New York's Lower East Side
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: April 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780814755099
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Local history; New York (State); History - General History; Ethnic Sociology; New York - Local History; Social conditions; History - U.S.; New York; History; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; Emigration & Immigration; United States - State & Local - General; IMMIGRANTS_UNITED STATES; MANHATTAN (NEW YORK, N.Y.); NEW YORK (N.Y.)_HISTORY; NEW YORK (N.Y.)_SOCIAL CONDITIONS; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Ethnology; Immigrants; New York (N.Y.)
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.