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100 1 $aCaldwell, Mark.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83166207
245 10 $aNew York night :$bthe mystique and its history /$cMark Caldwell.
260 $aNew York :$bScribner,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $a404 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 378-390).
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tNew Amsterdam noir : the dark nights of Dutch Manhattan -- $gCh. 2.$tRattle watch nights : city streets after sundown, from Peter Stuyvesant to the early republic -- $gCh. 3.$tHearthside and rushlight : old New York at home -- $gCh. 4.$tBroadway after dark : pleasures and horrors of federal New York -- $gCh. 5.$t"Bowery gals will you come out to-night?" : nighttime on the Bowery before the Civil War -- $gCh. 6.$t"Under the rain of gaslights" : from the Civil War to the gilded and gruesome 1870s -- $gCh. 7.$tElectric costumes and brass knuckles : glamour, crime, sports, and the commercialization of night in the 1890s -- $gCh. 8.$tMr. Dieter vanishes, November 1923 : the Volstead Act, jazz, and Earl Carroll's vanities -- $gCh. 9.$tFrom poorhouse to penthouse and back : at home, homeless, and on the town in the mid-1930s -- $gCh. 10.$tWhen the lights went out : World War II, the 1950s, and the suburbanization of night -- $gCh. 11.$tFull moon over the stonewall : the gay epiphany, discomania, and the surfacing of hidden night -- $tEpilogue : spring 2004 : back to the wooden horse.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial life and customs.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091434
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116328
650 0 $aNight$xSocial aspects$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.
650 0 $aStreet life$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.
650 0 $aCity and town life$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108454
852 00 $bglx$hF128.3$i.C35 2005