This alternative guidebook for one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people’s New York City.
The sites and stories of A People’s Guide to New York City shift our perception of what defines New York, placing the passion, determination, defeats, and victories of its people at the core. Delving into the histories of New York's five boroughs, you will encounter enslaved Africans in revolt, women marching for equality, workers on strike, musicians and performers claiming streets for their art, and neighbors organizing against landfills and industrial toxins and in support of affordable housing and public schools. The streetscapes that emerge from these groups' struggles bear the traces, and this book shows you where to look to find them.
New York City is a preeminent global city, serving as the headquarters for hundreds of multinational firms and a world-renowned cultural hub for fashion, art, and music. It is among the most multicultural cities in the world and also one of the most segregated cities in the United States. The people that make this global city function—immigrants, people of color, and the working classes—reside largely in the so-called “outer boroughs,” outside the corporations, neon, and skyscrapers of Manhattan. A People’s Guide to New York City expands the scope and scale of traditional guidebooks, providing an equitable exploration of the lives of the diverse communities across the city. Through the stories of over 150 sites across the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island as well as thematic tours and contemporary and archival photographs, a people’s New York emerges, one in which collective struggles for justice and freedom have shaped the very landscape of the city.
By:
Carolina Bank Muñoz,
Penny Lewis,
Emily Tumpson Molina
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 5
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9780520289574
ISBN 10: 0520289579
Series: A People's Guide Series
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 25 January 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"List of Maps INTRODUCTION 1 BRONX 1.1 Montefiore Hospital/Local 1199 Health and Hospital Workers Union | 1.2 The ""Allerton Coops,"" Amalgamated Housing Cooperative, and Co-op City | 1.3 Arthur Avenue Retail Market | 1.4 Birthplace of Hip-Hop | 1.5 East Tremont | 1.6 Former Home of Richard Colón (""Crazy Legs"") | 1.7 Charlotte Gardens/Mid-Bronx Desperadoes | 1.8 Former Home of Leon Trotsky | 1.9 Fania All-Stars at Yankee Stadium | 1.10 Hostos Community College | 1.11 Lincoln Hospital | 1.12 Dominicanos USA | 1.13 Casita Rincón Criollo | 1.14 Bronx Music Hall | 1.15 United Bronx Parents | 1.16 Hunts Point Terminal Food Distribution Center | 1.17 New York Expo Center/Former Site of the New York Organic Fertilizer Company Water 2 MANHATTAN 2.1 Sugar Hill | 2.2 City College–City University of New York | 2.3 Renaissance Ballroom and Casino | 2.4 Abyssinian Baptist Church | 2.5 Manhattanville Campus, Columbia University | 2.6 28th Precinct | 2.7 Hotel Theresa | 2.8 Mabel Hampton's Former Apartment | 2.9 Thomas Jefferson Pool | 2.10 Young Lords' Garbage Offensive | 2.11 Central Park | 2.12 San Juan Hill/Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | 2.13 7th Regiment Armory | 2.14 Women's Strike for Equality | 2.15 ACT UP Protest at St. Patrick's Cathedral | 2.16 Broadway Unions at Times Square | 2.17 Play Pen | 2.18 Social Service Employees Union Local 371 | 2.19 Colored Orphan's Asylum/Draft Riots | 2.20 High Line Park | 2.21 Gay Men's Health Crisis | 2.22 Union Square Park | 2.23 Tammany Hall | 2.24 The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center of NYC | 2.25 St. Vincent's Hospital | 2.26 Christopher Street Pier | 2.27 The Stonewall Inn | 2.28 Women's House of Detention/Jefferson Market Library and Garden | 2.29 The Cage | 2.30 Judson Memorial Church | 2.31 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory | 2.32 Emma Goldman's House | 2.33 Village East Cinema/Yiddish Rialto | 2.34 Astor Place Riot | 2.35 Cooper Union Great Hall | 2.36 Public Theater | 2.37 The Village Voice | 2.38 Third Street Men's Shelter | 2.39 Former Site of CBGB & OMFUG | 2.40 Liz Christy Bowery Houston Community Garden | 2.41 Tompkins Square Park | 2.42 CHARAS/El Bohio | 2.43 C-Squat (See Skwat) and Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space | 2.44 Nuyorican Poets Café | 2.45 The Forward Building | 2.46 Henry Street Settlement | 2.47 Former Home of David Ruggles | 2.48 Collect Pond Park | 2.49 African Burial Ground | 2.50 Five Points/Columbus Park | 2.51 Former Site of Silver Palace Restaurant | 2.52 One Chase Manhattan Plaza | 2.53 Former Site of New York Slave Market | 2.54 Standard Oil Building | 2.55 National Museum of the American Indian (Fort Amsterdam) | 2.56 Battery Park/Castle Clinton | 2.57 Statue of Liberty New York City Islands 3 QUEENS 3.1 Steinway Piano Factory | 3.2 Queensbridge Houses | 3.3 Taxi Workers Alliance | 3.4 Former Site of 5Pointz: The Institute of Higher Burning | 3.5 Sunnyside Gardens | 3.6 Voice of Taiwan | 3.7 Julio Rivera Corner | 3.8 Louis Armstrong House | 3.9 Flushing Meadows Corona Park | 3.10 Flushing Friends Meeting House and John Bowne House | 3.11 Hindu Temple Society of North America (Ganesh Temple) | 3.12 Lesbian Avengers | 3.13 Store Front Museum | 3.14 Rochdale Village | 3.15 Howard Beach Riots | 3.16 Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge | 3.17 The People's Beach at Jacob Riis Park Public Transportation 4 BROOKLYN 4.1 Greenpoint Oil Spill | 4.2 Domino Sugar Factory | 4.3 Mayday Space and Brooklyn Commons; Starr Bar and Café | 4.4 Brooklyn Bridge | 4.5 Plymouth Church | 4.6 Knights of Labor, District Assembly 75 | 4.7 Fulton Mall | 4.8 The 1964 School Boycott–Board of Education | 4.9 Atlantic Yards | 4.10 Shirley Chisholm's Presidential Launch at Concord Baptist Church of Christ | 4.11 Restoration Plaza | 4.12 Colored School No. 2/P.S. 68/83/243 | 4.13 Weeksville Heritage Center | 4.14 Junior High School 271 | 4.15 Brownsville Labor Lyceum | 4.16 Margaret Sanger's First Birth Control Clinic | 4.17 East New York Farms! | 4.18 Sunny's Bar | 4.19 Gowanus Canal | 4.20 Washington Park | 4.21 Park Slope Food Coop | 4.22 Lesbian Herstory Archives | 4.23 Crown Heights Tenant Union | 4.24 1991 Crown Heights Riots | 4.25 Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center | 4.26 Sunset Park | 4.27 Erasmus Hall High School | 4.28 Ebinger Baking Company Boycotts | 4.29 Kings Theatre | 4.30 Arab American Association of New York | 4.31 Mortgage Lending in Bay Ridge | 4.32 Master Theater | 4.33 Coney Island Bridges, Tunnels, and Expressways 5 STATEN ISLAND 5.1 Staten Island Ferry | 5.2 Tompkinsville Park | 5.3 Stapleton Carnegie Library | 5.4 Stapleton Union American Methodist Episcopal Church | 5.5 Verrazzano- Narrows Bridge | 5.6 Willowbrook State School | 5.7 Amazon Warehouse Walkout | 5.8 Freshkills Park | 5.9 Sandy Ground | 5.10 Spanish Camp/Former Site of Dorothy Day's Home | 5.11 Lenape Burial Ridge/Conference House Park 6 THEMATIC TOURS 323 Chinatowns Tour | Environmental Justice Tour | 7 Train Tour: Immigration in Queens | Wall Street: Capitalism and Protest Tour Recommended Reading Acknowledgments Credits Index"
Carolina Bank Muñoz is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Penny Lewis is Professor of Labor Studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. Emily Tumpson Molina is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
