Unexpected New York - Softcover

Sandy Miller

3.33

6 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566568056 ISBN 13: 9781566568050

Publisher: Interlink Books, 2010

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This well-written and sumptuously illustrated book is filled with surprises that add texture and richness to life in the Big Apple. Wild peacocks, parrots, and raccoons rather than the Bronx Zoo; cricket, lawn bowling, surfboarding, and pistol shooting rather than the Yankees and the Mets; a Japanese pagoda-inspired house and a Frank Lloyd Wright house rather than a Brooklyn brownstone or the Empire State building; wineries, rolling ladder manufacturers, and fishing tackle businesses rather than the New York Stock Exchange; key lime pies not seltzer; fragments of the Berlin Wall and Gaudi-like mosaic benches rather than the Guggenheim or the Met; a statue of Lenin rather than the Statue of Liberty.

Unexpected New York is about places, activities, events, and entities in New York City that surprise. These are not secret or hidden, nor necessarily off the beaten track, just not what the words New York City immediately call to mind. But perhaps the unexpected aspects of New York are what truly make its world-class diversity. If not quintessential New York, nonetheless, essential.

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About the Author:

Sandy Miller is the author of Café Life New York.
Juliana Spear photographed Café Life Paris, Café Life New York, Romantic Paris, and Steeped in the World of Tea.

From Publishers Weekly:

In his latest book on the city that never sleeps, Miller (Caf� Life New York) offers a glimpse into the businesses, activities, architectural structures, and hidden wonders not usually seen by visitors or even denizens of the city. From a section about a rolling ladder purveyor in Manhattan™s SoHo district to one about the Coney Island Lighthouse, Miller™s New York boasts surprises in its diversity: the mosaic benches around Grant™s Tomb, the welcoming Nuyorican casitas ("little houses") that have sprung up on unsightly vacant lots in the South Bronx. Even seasoned New Yorkers will be shocked by some facets of the city, such as the continued existence of urban slaughterhouses: a photo of caged lambs awaiting slaughter is juxtaposed with an image of a butcher™s scale. On the cheerier side, with Spear™s lively photographs of the Trapeze School and lush grapes on a farm in Queens punctuating Miller™s informative narration, this lovely coffee-table book will provide a plethora of talking points about this quirky, astonishing city.
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