Product Description

This unique volume uncovers the most fascinating and compelling stories from The New York Times about the city the paper calls home.

More than 200 articles and an abundance of photographs, illustrations, maps, and graphs from the preeminent newspaper in the world take a look at the history and personality of the world's most influential city. Read firsthand accounts of the subway opening in 1904 and the day the Metrocard was introduced; the fall of Tammany Hall and recurring corruption in city politics; the Son of Sam murders; jazz clubs in the 1920s and legendary performances at the Fillmore East; baseball's Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier at Brooklyn's storied Ebbets Field in 1947; the 1977 and 2004 blackouts; the openings and closings of the city's most beloved restaurants; and much more. Not just a historical account, this is a fascinating, sometimes funny, and often moving look at how people in New York live, eat, travel, mourn, fight, love, and celebrate.

Organized by theme, the book includes original writings on all topics related to city life, including art, architecture, transportation, politics, neighborhoods, people, sports, business, food, and more. Includes articles from such well-known Times writers as Meyer Berger, Gay Talese, Anna Quindlen, Israel Shenker, Brooks Atkinson, Frank Rich, Ada Louise Huxtable, John Kieran, Russell Baker, and more. Special contributors who have written about New York for the Times include Paul Auster, Woody Allen, and E.B. White, among others.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #91317 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 463 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781579128012
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
The New York Times is regarded as the world's pre-eminent newspaper.  Its news coverage is known for its exceptional depth and breadth, with reporting bureaus throughout the United States and in 26 foreign countries.  The Times has the largest circulation of any seven-day newspaper in the U.S.  It has been awarded many journalism awards over the years, including a total of 94 Pulitzer Prizes and citations, which is far more than any other newspaper.



James Barron is a reporter on the metropolitan staff of The Times.  He wrote the minute-by-minute stories on the 9/11 attacks for The New York Times on the web and the front page lead story on the 2003 blackout.  He initiated the "Public Lives" column (later called "Boldface Names") and currently writes a podcast for The Times's Web site summarizing the next morning's front page.  Barron wrote the timeline summaries for The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages :1851 - 2008, and is the author of Piano: The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand.

Customer Reviews

Shaved Bald
The New York Times Book Of New York is a bit too ambitious for its own good. It begins with "A Note To Readers" written by the editor, James Barron. He writes, "Even in a book as thick as this one turned out to be, the available space was limited, and we had to give many of the stories a trim--but not, we believe, a buzz cut."

Unfortunately, readers will walk away feeling as if a buzz cut was exactly what the articles were given. They will be frustrated because they won't understand why it was done that way. Why, instead of including fewer articles(and printing them at their full length) did Barron choose to print so many articles? Barron provides no answer in his "Note To Readers." That is unfortunate, because readers will feel hungry for more after finishing this book, but not in a good way.

Some better alternatives are "New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of The New York Times," which is edited by Constance Rosenblum, or "City Lights: Stories About New York" by Dan Barry.

A Must, an absolute "Must" for Big Apple Lovers
A "must" for those who love, appreciate, are amused by or are just fascinated with New York, the greatest city in the world, the Big Apple. (In the interest of full disclosure this is coming from an unabashed New York lover, it's excitement, its energy, its everything-ness...)

Stories of New York told as only the New York Times could tell them. Who, after all, knows the city better than the Times? And who is better able to tell the story than the NY Times?

Photos, articles and essays, all kinds of comments and perspecitives, all worthy of the the greatest city in the world.

If you are a New York lover, you will love this book!!

NY is # 1
Awesome...wonderful...a great historical account of NYC told from various NYTimes articles over the ages...absolutely mesmerizing!!!!!!