The Gentrification Plot : : New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel / / Thomas Heise.
For decades, crime novelists have set their stories in New York City, a place long famed for decay, danger, and intrigue. What happens when the mean streets of the city are no longer quite so mean? In the wake of an unprecedented drop in crime in the 1990s and the real-estate development boom in the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literature Now
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction. Death and Life in Postindustrial New York
- Chapter One. The Lower East Side: Cops, Culture, and the Creative Class
- Chapter Two. Chinatown: Policing the Ethnic Enclave
- Chapter Three. Red Hook: Blood on the Industrial Waterfront
- Chapter Four. Harlem: Uptown Dead Zones
- Chapter Five. Bedford- Stuyvesant: White Boys in the Hood
- Epilogue. Escape from New York
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX