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New York Night: The Mystique and Its History

"Who among us cannot testify to the possibilities of the night? To the mysterious, shadowed intersections of music, smoke, money, alcohol, desire, and dream? The hours between dusk and dawn are when we are most urgently free, when high meets low, when tongues wag, when wallets loosen, when uptown, downtown, rich, poor, black, white, gay, straight, male, and female so often chance upon one another. Night is when we are more likely to carouse, fornicate, fall in love, murder, or ourselves fall prey. And if there is one place where the grandness, danger, and enchantment of night have been lived more than anywhere else -- lived in fact for over 350 years -- it is, of course, New York City. From glittering opulence to sordid violence, from sweetest romance to grinding lust, critic and historian Mark Caldwell chronicles, with both intimate detail and epic sweep, the story of New York nightlife from 1643 to the present, featuring the famous, the notorious, and the unknown who have long walked the city's streets and lived its history. New York Night ranges from the leafy forests at Manhattan's tip, where Indians and Europeans first met, to the candlelit taverns of old New Amsterdam, to the theaters, brothels, and saloon prizefights of the Civil War era, to the lavish entertainments of the Gilded Age, to the speakeasies and nightclubs of the century past, and even to the strip clubs and glamour restaurants of today. We see madams and boxers, murderers and drunks, soldiers, singers, layabouts, and thieves. We see the swaggering ""Sporting Men,""the fearless slatterns, the socially prominent rakes, the chorus girls, the impresarios, the gangsters, the club hoppers, and the dead. We see none other than the great Charles Dickens himself taken to a tavern of outrageous repute and be so shocked by what he witnesses that he must be helped to the door. We see human beings making their nighttime bet with New York City. Some of these stories are tragic, some comic, but all paint a resilient metropolis of the night. In New York, uniquely among the world's great cities, the hours of darkness have always brought opposites together, with results both creative and violent. This is a book that is filled with intrigue, crime, sex, violence, music, dance, and the blur of neon-lit crowds along ribbons of pavement. Technology, too, figures in the drama, with such inventions as gas and electric light, photography, rapid transit, and the scratchy magic of radio appearing one by one to collaborate in a nocturnal world of inexhaustible variety and excitement. New York Night will delight history buffs, New Yorkers in love with their home, and anyone who wants to see how human nocturnal behavior has changed and not changed as the world's greatest city has come into being. New York Night is a spellbinding social history of the day's dark hours, when work ends, secrets reveal themselves, and the unimaginable becomes real. "

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Title of ebook: New York Night: The Mystique and Its History
ISBN: 9780743274784
Publisher: Scribner
Internet download file size: 528 kb
Released online for download: 09-13-2005
Author of eBook: Caldwell, Mark

New York Night

The Mystique and Its History

Prologue

Night, in its perpetual journey around the earth, speeds over the East River and reaches the foot of 42nd Street at 73 degrees, 58 minutes, and 4 seconds west longitude. It then pursues the sunset across midtown - and the 74th meridian - to where 42nd meets the Hudson, at 74 degrees, 7 seconds. On the evening of March 31, 2005, night dropped on the FDR Drive shortly after pedestrians' cell phone clocks blinked 5:19 P.M. Then it hurtled across the island roughly one and a half times faster than the speed of sound - just over 1,100 miles an hour - taking about eight seconds, swallowing one east-west block every half second.

Collaborating with land, water, and buildings, this astronomic nightfall, every day different and striking no other place on earth at just t ... read full excerpt from New York Night: The Mystique and Its History ebook