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I have vowed to keep my posts short. So let’s have a quick look at my nonfiction title New Yorkers: A Feisty People Who Will Unsettle, Madden, Amuse and Astonish You, the third work in my #Wild New York series of books about New York and New Yorkers, then and now. It combines memoir, history, and travel lore, so what can a reader expect? Just about anything, and much of it weird.
- A look at the great blizzard of 1888, when the snowfall was so deep that, on the following day, people who went out were walking over the tops of trees.
- An imaginary walk along the docks, circa 1870, with glimpses of sugar refineries twelve stories high, and under the docks, a shadowy forest of pilings where harbor thieves stashed their stolen goods.
- Taxi drivers who may be gypsies, Basques, Tibetans, or Sherpas from Nepal.
- Gentle fun, hot fun, and weird fun (and I do mean weird).
- How people die in New York (that can be really weird).
- Booze, and why Prohibition has never worked in New York, and never will.
- How Fifth Avenue went from goats to grandeur.
- And oh yes, my affair with a Broadway chorus boy, to show that if the Cardinal Archbishop of New York could do it, so could I.
A fun book, but with serious moments. Weird, fascinating facts to surprise visitors and residents alike.
Available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
© 2021 Clifford Browder
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