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...contrast of those black lines on a white page - a bit less when it was reprinted on the Times' gray newsprint. Which is why you should look at his work in book form: the handsomely illustrated autobiography "Hirschfeld On Line," or, for about the price of a manicure, the Gotham-glorifying "Hirschfeld's New York" and the all-movie "Hirschfeld's Hollywood...
...This is a moment in history that I learned nothing about as a child. For most people I talk to, it's forgotten. So I read books like "Gotham" and [Herbert Asbury's] "The Gangs of New York," just to try to get a feel and essence of this time. It truly is a forgotten time; it's like the wild west in New York. I mean, at one point New York really wanted to succeed from the union. They thought of themselves as an entity unto themselves...
During her year in the city, Jen formed a literary society of sorts with friends Louise R. Radin ’76 and Jonathan D. Weiner ’76. They attended poetry readings and made frequent trips to Gotham Bookmart, while Jen took writing classes at the New School...
...lives in our world, in New York City--not "Gotham" or "Metropolis," a resonant fact, considering the real-life supervillainy his hometown has suffered. Unlike WW II comics' patriotism, Spider-Man's nods to the current war era are more elliptical. The World Trade Center towers were excised from one scene; New Yorkers refusing to be terrorized by the Green Goblin sound a note of Let's-Roll-ism. (The American flag filling the screen in the final moments, on the other hand, is as subtle as a black-widow bite.) It might be off-putting, seeing a superhero saving...
...special connotation because the audience knows it is New York. It begs the question: Were these pictures not taken in New York, would they carry the same emotive force? Given the set of ready associations that the city has in our cultural memory, likely not. However, this is Gotham unlike many have ever witnessed. Levitt’s is the New York of people—of stories in the naked city, of personal, simple events of everyday people: a concrete jungle transformed into an urban garden...