Making the City 9781483501376, 148350137X

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Table Of Contents; Introduction; City Life; Takeout story: Behind bulletproof

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Making the City
 9781483501376, 148350137X

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Table Of Contents
Introduction
City Life
Takeout story: Behind bulletproof glass and out on a bike for a Chinese restaurant in Mott Haven
Designer shades, quiet hustle: The entrepreneurs of the New York City homeless shelter
Fast times on Avenue A: The life and death of Superdive
Politics
What Anthony Weiner learned from Chuck Schumer, and what he didn't
The gentleman commissioner: Why NYPD controversies never seem to touch Ray Kelly
Why is New York still stuck with the Metrocard?
Andrew Cuomo's favorite columnist is up in arms
Media. Arianna Huffington's untrivial pursuit: Capital-J journalism at the Huffington PostThe kingdom and the power of David Carr
Tales of a skirt-chaser: On the radically democratic theory, and autocratic practice, of being Bill Cunningham
Culture
The making of a falafel king
License to trill: The reinvention of Robert Davi
Funny face
Sports
The man from Paterson: Victor Cruz saves the Giants and himself, again and again
The night Jeremy Lin drew double coverage and the Garden lost its mind
The future just happened: Jose Reyes and the season Mets fans have been waiting for.

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