Habitats : : Private Lives in the Big City / / Constance Rosenblum.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rosenblum, Constance,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 40 black and white illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Starting Out --; 1. His Hacienda in the Sky --; 2. A Single Man Buys a Home for Someday --; 3. Very Bushwick and Very Fabulous --; 4. Southern Shimmer --; Starting Over --; 5. The House of Open Arms --; 6. Her Cottage by the Sea --; 7. Here I Am. And Here We Are. --; Living with Ghosts --; 8. The House That Saved His Life --; 9. And for Compensation, the View --; 10. The Domestication of a Dive --; 11. A Man and His Miscellany --; 12. A Beach Bungalow with a Magnetic Pull --; 13. The Almost Landless Gardener --; 14. Lair and Sanctuary in the South Bronx --; Creative Types --; 15. The Traveling Circus Stops Here --; 16. For a Writer, a Home with a Hideout --; 17. Where Wit Pays the Rent --; 18. The Art of Sparkle --; 19. Her Second Home, the One without Wheels --; 20. Magic Moments --; 21. Caretakers of a Culture --; 22. Paradise Found --; 23. Trim Jim Creates a Masterpiece --; Old Stomping Grounds --; 24. Ensconced in the Bronx --; 25. Over the Family Store, Staff Quarters --; 26. With Sky and the Weather for Neighbors --; 27. A Hand-Me-Down Home --; 28. The Leader of the Cheers --; 29. A Moment of Remarkable Optimism --; 30. Elastic Elegance --; 31. Elephants for Luck --; 32. A Young Life --; 33. The Rebel Girl of Borough Park --; Palaces and Jewel Boxes --; 34. For a Family, Elaborate Elbow Room --; 35. Enter, Hammering --; 36. Pocket-Sized on West 47th Street --; 37. Ardent Admirer, Devoted Steward --; Nesting --; 38. Kitten Heaven --; 39. With Family Built In --; 40. Threading the Needle on West 12th Street --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814771556; 9783110706444
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814771556.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Constance Rosenblum.

There may be eight million stories in the Naked City, but there are also nearly three million dwelling places, ranging from Park Avenue palaces to Dickensian garrets and encompassing much in between. The doorways to these residences are tantalizing portals opening onto largely invisible lives. Habitats offers 40 vivid and intimate stories about how New Yorkers really live in their brownstones, their apartments, their mansions, their lofts, and as a whole presents a rich, multi-textured portrait of what it means to make a home in the world’s most varied and powerful city. These essays, expanded versions of a selection of the Habitats column published in the Real Estate section of The New York Times, take readers to both familiar and remote sections of the city-to history-rich townhouses, to low-income housing projects, to out-of-the-way places far from the beaten track, to every corner of the five boroughs-and introduce them to a wide variety of families and individuals who call New York home. These pieces reveal a great deal about the city’s past and its rich store of historic dwellings. Along with exploring the deep and even mystical connections people feel to the place where they live, these pieces, taken as a whole, offer a mosaic of domestic life in one of the world’s most fascinating cities and a vivid portrait of the true meaning of home in the 21st-century metropolis.