The must-have guide to pop culture, history, and world-changing
ideas that started in New York City, from the magazine at the
center of it all. Since its founding in 1624, New York City has
been a place that creates things. What began as a trading post for
beaver pelts soon transformed into a hub of technological, social,
and cultural innovation-but beyond fostering literal inventions
like the elevator (inside Cooper Union in 1853), Q-tips (by Polish
immigrant Leo Gerstenzang in 1923), General Tso's chicken
(reimagined for American tastes in the 1970s by one of its Hunanese
creators), the singles bar (1965 on the Upper East Side), and
Scrabble (1931 in Jackson Heights), the city has given birth to or
perfected idioms, forms, and ways of thinking that have changed the
world, from Abstract Expressionism to Broadway, baseball to
hip-hop, news blogs to neoconservatism to the concept of
"downtown." Those creations and more are all collected in The
Encyclopedia of New York, an A-to-Z compendium of unexpected origin
stories, hidden histories, and useful guides to the greatest city
in the world, compiled by the editors of New York Magazine (a city
invention itself, since 1968) and featuring contributions from
Rebecca Traister, Jerry Saltz, Frank Rich, Jonathan Chait, Rhonda
Garelick, Kathryn VanArendonk, Christopher Bonanos, and more. Here
you will find something fascinating and uniquely New York on every
page: a history of the city's skyline, accompanied by a tour
guide's list of the best things about every observation deck; the
development of positive thinking and punk music; appreciations of
seltzer and alternate-side-of-the-street parking; the oddest object
to be found at Ripley's Believe It or Not!; musical theater next to
muckracking and mugging; and the unbelievable revelation that
English muffins were created on...West Twentieth Street. Whether
you are a lifelong resident, a curious newcomer, or an armchair
traveler, this is the guidebook you'll need, straight from the
people who know New York best.
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