New York night
Subtitle: the mystique and its history
By: Mark Caldwell.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780743242769
Subjects: Night -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Street life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs; New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-390).
Table of contents: title: New Amsterdam noir : the dark nights of Dutch Manhattan; title: Rattle watch nights : city streets after sundown, from Peter Stuyvesant to the early republic; title: Hearthside and rushlight : old New York at home; title: Broadway after dark : pleasures and hours of federal New York; title: Bowery gals will come out to-night? : nighttime on the Bowery before the Civil War; title: Under the rain of gaslights : from the Civil War to the gilded and gruesome 1870s; title: Electric costumes and brass knuckles : glamour, crime, sports, and the commercialization of night in the 1890s; title: Mr. Dieter vanishes, November 1923 : the Volstead Act, jazz, and Earl Carroll's Vanities; title: From poorhouse to penthouse and back : at home, homeless, and on the town in mid-1930's; title: When the lights went out : World War II, the 1950's and the suburbanization of night; title: Full moon over the Stonewall : the gay epiphany, discomania, and the surfacing of hidden night.