Street People: Invisible New York Made Visible

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New York City, 1970s. Take a walk on the wild side.

In Street People: Invisible New York Made Visible, spellbinding stories and iconic images combine to create a rare glimpse into a world hiding in plain sight.

1970s New York was a mecca for artists, writers, and musicians drawn to its vibrant energy and creative possibilities. It was also a place of grinding poverty and urban decay, where crime and violence were everyday realities and hope danced with despair.

Prowl the nighttime streets with Margie — the drag queen who inspired more than fifty works by Andy Warhol — and Romeo, part-time mugger, full-time philosopher, and king of the corner of West 98th Street and Broadway. Set up shop at the crack of dawn with Morris as he assembles New York’s oldest newsstand, then spend the day with the denizens of his street corner society. Slip downtown and ride shotgun with amateur pimp and prostitute Frankie and Cookie on their first night out. Cross the bridge into Brooklyn to bear witness to Edward, the self-appointed Second Coming of Christ, here to bring down destruction on the human race.

Step into these extraordinary lives.

This timeless portrayal of life on the margins is accompanied by stark black-and-white images that expose the grit and beauty of a city at its most raw and real. Experience this strikingly illustrated account of this turbulent time and its forgotten people.

Witness invisible New York made visible.

From the Publisher

Morris Kavesh, Newsstand Man

You know why I am happy? I look on my life different way. I’m happy the way I am because I know that other people are worse than I, and some people are better than I, but I don’t look who’s better from me. I look at those people who are worse than me. So in spite of everything, I’m the most happy man. Right?

I am like the worm that got into radish. I mean apple. The worm come into apple sleeps there, eats there, he doesn’t mind. I’m the worm. This is my apple, here on Broadway.

All the News That Fits

I hated most getting off at Times Square, the too-cheerful con­duc­tor singing out “Let ’em off, Let ’em off! Step lively, step lively!” when it was all any of us could do to keep our footing as our hodge­podge of sweaty flesh flowed onto the platform.

Sometimes, foolishly, I would fight back, bracing my arms against the open doorway, holding up the crowd pressing on me until a few inches cleared and I could step onto the platform with human dignity.

Manhattan Notebook

I’ve got only a few dollars in me pocket, but I’ll find work. A man can always find work. You’ve got to dis­tinguish between a man and a stiff. A stiff, whether he’s rich or poor, gets by, doing as little as he has to, right? A man, he works as hard as he can at whatever he does because he’s proud to do so.

There’s not a machine I can’t take apart and put back together. But I’m not braggin’. I didn’t come here to impress nobody. I call a spade a spade and not a diggin’ implement.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B5GT38VB
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Transformations Press (June 29, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 29, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 22661 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 448 pages