Only in New York
An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City
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Publisher Description
A "street-smart, informative and occasionally hilarious" look at the places, personalities, and history that make New York one of a kind (Publishers Weekly).
Reporter Sam Roberts has covered the city in all its quirkiness, both in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts. In Only in New York, now updated with new stories, he writes about what makes this city tick and why things are the way they are in the greatest of all metropolises on earth. These essays cover topics such as:
-How New Yorkers react during disasters
-Maritime history (the Hudson River)
-Crowds, space, and population growth
-The pooper scooper revolution
-The Jewish Daily Forward
-What happens when a neighborhood loses its tony ZIP code, and more
"Roberts has covered the city for 40 years. So as we locals say, he knows from, and it shows in this fabulous collection of essays. With wit and grace, he tells stories of its citizens—some illustrious, others not; some living, others long dead. But the story he's really telling is that of New York, and he nails it." —Daily News (New York)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A staple among readers of the New York Times, urban affairs correspondent Roberts collects 40 of his podcasts for the Times Web site savvy snapshots of the city that prides itself on its restless energy. Roberts (Who We Are Now) pens snappy glimpses of its personalities, trends, events and general mayhem, including topics such as the gender gap and "eligible men," fat New Yorkers, the New York City pooper-scooper law, gangster Nicky "Mr. Untouchable" Barnes, and the terror and fear of the 9/11 tragedy. His writing really crackles when he sinks his teeth into the antics of some of those who put their stamp on the city, such as writers Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin in their 1969 madcap political race, Mayor Bloomberg's deep pockets for wooing voters or President Obama's early student days of roughing it in Manhattan. Street-smart, informative and occasionally hilarious, Roberts's new book is New York City as it is and always has been. 20 b&w line drawings.
