Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City (Hardcover)

(W/A/CA) Julia Wertz. In Tenements* Towers & Trash* Julia Wertz takes us behind the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York* but the guts* the underbelly* of this city that never sleeps. With drawings and comics in her signature style* Wertz regales us with streetscapes "Then and Now" and little-known tales* such as the lost history of Kim's Video* the complicated and unresolved business of Ray's Pizza* the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn's Bottle Beach* the ludicrous pinball prohibition* Staten Island's secret abandoned boatyard* and the hair-raising legend of the infamous abortionist of Fifth Avenue* Madame Restell. From bars* bakeries* and bookstores to food carts* steet cleaners and apartments both cramped and grand* Tenements* Towers & Trash is a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.