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The Longform Guide to Bygone New York
A collection of picks about different eras of life in New York City, inspried by Twice Upon a Time: Listening to New York, the new, multilayered essay by acclaimed author Hari Kunzru. Buy it today from Atavist Books.
A Jazz Age Autopsy
The lonesome death of Arnold Rothstein, notorious gambler, inspiration for a the character Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby, alleged fixer of the 1916 World Series, opiate importation pioneer, mobster and Jew.
Nick Tosches Vanity Fair May 2005 40min
My Lost City
When New York was perpetually on fire.
Luc Sante New York Review of Books Nov 2003 15min
A Report from Occupied Territory
On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.
James Baldwin The Nation Jul 1966
Billie Holiday
Watching the jazz singer in New York.
Elizabeth Hardwick New York Review of Books Mar 1976 15min
The Genesis of the Gang
Jacob Riis, writing in 1899, on how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.
Jacob Riis The Atlantic Sep 1899 25min
Chloë's Scene
A profile of Chloë Sevigny, 19-year-old It Girl.
Jay McInerney New Yorker Nov 1994
A Boy Grew In Brooklyn
Memories of the old neighborhood, before everything changed.
Arthur Miller Holiday Mar 1955 25min
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