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Author: Craig Taylor

Winner of the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its people—from the best-selling author of Londoners. In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voices of some of the city’s best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in our time—and a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people. Best-selling author Craig Taylor has been hailed as “a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman” (David Rakoff), acclaimed for the way he “fuses the mundane truth of conversation with the higher truth of art” (Michel Faber). In the wake of his celebrated book Londoners, Taylor moved to New York and spent years meeting regularly with hundreds of New Yorkers as diverse as the city itself. New Yorkers features 75 of the most remarkable of them, their fascinating true tales arranged in thematic sections that follow Taylor’s growing engagement with the city. Here are the uncelebrated people who propel New York each day—bodega cashier, hospital nurse, elevator repairman, emergency dispatcher. Here are those who wire the lights at the top of the Empire State Building, clean the windows of Rockefeller Center, and keep the subway running. Here are people whose experiences reflect the city’s fractured realities: the mother of a Latino teenager jailed at Rikers, a BLM activist in the wake of police shootings. And here are those who capture the ineffable feeling of New York, such as a balloon handler in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or a security guard at the Statue of Liberty. Vibrant and bursting with life, New Yorkers explores the nonstop hustle to make it; the pressures on new immigrants, people of color, and the poor; the constant battle between loving the city and wanting to leave it; and the question of who gets to be considered a “New Yorker.” It captures the strength of an irrepressible city that—no matter what it goes through—dares call itself the greatest in the world.

New Yorkers A City and Its People in Our Time Craig Taylor 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part One

1: Nonstop Hustle

Antwon Shavers, a recent arrival

Andrea Pawlak, the owner of a dog-walking business

Zack Arkin, a former cab driver

Dejon Santos, a street bookseller and author

Shayna Brown, a lice consultant

Joseph Lewis, a private cook

2: Stressed Out

Deborah Karlsson, a therapist

Arthur Kent, a dentist

Dyanne Rosado, a Wall Street HR executive

Ben Turshen, a meditation teacher

3: Building Stories

Doug Turshen, once a landlord

Louise Weinberg, a curator at the Queens Museum

Marvin Abram, a window cleaner

Steve Rosenthal, the owner of a recording studio

Sondra Shaye, a healer

Jaiquan Fayson, a painter

David Freeman, an elevator repairman

Michael Rodriguez, a seeker

4: The Rich Are Different

Yesim Ak, a real estate agent

Maggie Parker, a nanny

Liam McCarthy, a private tutor

André Mack, a sommelier

Bunny Williams, an interior designer

Ben Gardner, personal staff

Two anonymous bankers, on what it takes to live in New York

5: Crime and Punishment

Dan Bauso, a personal injury lawyer

Tom Moore, a lawyer

Mr. M, a car thief

Marilyn Alicea, whose son has been incarcerated on Rikers Island

Jaiquan Fayson, a painter who used to be incarcerated on Rikers Island

Interlude: A Sunday on the Street

Part Two

6: Clashing in the Streets

Daree Lewis, a philanthropic foundation officer

Pete Meehan, a cop

Sonia Rodriguez, a protester

Bob Sauter, a former bus driver

Laura Henderson, an activist and political organizer

Jim Eigo, a gay-rights activist

7: Song of the Rockaways

Dan Bauso and Jerry Rea, on surviving Hurricane Sandy

Nora Bauso, a student

8: Life Is a Parade

Michael Buzzard, a Salvation Army bell ringer

Alyssa Theresa Lopez, a student from Staten Island

Scott Wiener, a pizza guide

Edmund Thomas, a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon captain

9: Beneath the Streets

Emily Kramer, a retiree

Sal Leone, a subway conductor

Projjal Dutta, an MTA official

Dino Ng, a NYC Department of Transportation engineer

10: The Teeming Shore

Craig Geraghty, a runner through the five boroughs

Nasim Almuntaser, a bodega employee

Camila Ortiz, Yesenia Mejia, and Marta Flores on the long journey to New York

11: Pandemic City

Amy Hughes, Dan Bauso, and Siobhan Clifford on one New Yorker’s battle with COVID-19

Interlude: Another Sunday on the Street

Part Three

12: The Golden Door

Louise Weinberg, a curator at the Queens Museum

Gladys DeJesus Mitchell, a retired 911 dispatcher

Pete Meehan, a cop

Justin Gonzalez, a security guard at the Statue of Liberty

13: Winning and Losing

Elliott Carter, a recycler

Luis Serrano, a boxer

Abigail Noy, a die-hard Mets fan

Chris Carrino, the voice of the Brooklyn Nets

14: Getting Out

Khristina Narizhnaya, a journalist from Russia

Maggie Parker, a nanny from Houston

Antwon Shavers, a singer from Arkansas

15: The End of the Journey

Jason Nunes, an electrician working on the Empire State Building

Ralph Martin, a doorkeeper at the Welcome Table

Balem Choi, a nurse

Edmée Reit, on growing old in New York

Michael Rodriguez, a seeker

Michael Dos Santos, a singer

Coda: A Last Sunday on the Street

Acknowledgments

Index

Also by Craig Taylor

Copyright

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