Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names by Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua
Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names by Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua

Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names

A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet." --Jia...
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Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names by Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua

Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names

$49.83
Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names by Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua

Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names

$49.83
Author: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet." --Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror

In place-names lie stories. That's the truth that animates this fascinating journey through the names of New York City's streets and parks, boroughs and bridges, playgrounds and neighborhoods.

Exploring the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro traces the ways in which native Lenape, Dutch settlers, British invaders, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on the city's map. He excavates the roots of many names, from Brooklyn to Harlem, that have gained iconic meaning worldwide. He interviews the last living speakers of Lenape, visits the harbor's forgotten islands, lingers on street corners named for ballplayers and saints, and meets linguists who study the estimated eight hundred languages now spoken in New York.

As recent arrivals continue to find new ways to make New York's neighborhoods their own, the names that stick to the city's streets function not only as portals to explore the past but also as a means to reimagine what is possible now.

Author: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 04/13/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781524748920


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 02/15/2021
Library Journal 03/01/2021 pg. 98
Booklist 03/15/2021 pg. 29

About the Author
JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO is a geographer and writer. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and Harper's Magazine, among many other publications. He is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World and cocreator (with Rebecca Solnit) of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. He is a scholar-in-residence at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, where he also teaches.
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