Crossing Broadway : Washington Heights and the promise of New York City

Publication Data

• Title Crossing Broadway : Washington Heights and the promise of New York City
• Author Robert W. Snyder
• Publisher Cornell University Press
• Publication date 2015
• Publication location Ithaca
• Language English

Contents

Prologue: A place I thought I knew
An ordinary neighborhood in an extraordinary city
A useless and terrible death
Apartness rules our roost
In the shadow of the South Bronx
Crack years
A new neighborhood in a new city
Epilogue: Bittersweet victory.

Topics

• Washington Heights (New York, N.Y.) :: Social conditions :: 20th century
• Washington Heights (New York, N.Y.)

Crossing Broadway : Washington Heights and the promise of New York City by Robert W. Snyder. ISBN 9780801449611. Published by Cornell University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.