Blogs in January 1970

The Bottom of the Harbor 1st January 1970

The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Clean easy prose, and well observed characters along the waterfront of the Hudson River

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Up in the Old Hotel 1st January 1970

Saloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old “seafoodetarian” who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades. These are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his...

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