New Fire Boat for New York City—The New Yorker

1891 ◽  
Vol 64 (10) ◽  
pp. 148-148 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
The New Yorker

Scribner’s Bookstore

LOGOS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
David Emblidge
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Business Model ◽  
York City ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Personal Service ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Real Estate Developers

Abstract In 1989, a literary landmark in New York City closed. Scribner’s Bookstore, 597 Fifth Avenue, stood at the epicentre of Manhattan’s retail district. The Scribner’s publishing company was then 153 years old. In the 1920s, driven by genius editor Max Perkins, Scribner’s published Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wolfe. Scribner’s Magazine was The New Yorker of its day. The bookshop and publisher occupied a 10-storey Beaux-Arts building, designed by Ernest Flagg, which eventually won protection from the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Medallions honoured printers Benjamin Franklin, William Caxton, Johann Gutenberg, and Aldus Manutius. The ‘Byzantine cathedral of books’ offered deeply informed personal service. But the paperback revolution gained momentum, bookshop chains like Barnes & Noble and Brentano’s adopted extreme discounting, and the no-discounting Scribner’s business model became unsustainable. Real estate developers swooped in. The bookshop’s ignominious end came when Italian clothier Benetton took over its space.

Political Parties in New York City

1946 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-282
Author(s):  
Hugh A. Bone
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
York City ◽  
Party System ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Fourth Term ◽  
Election Laws

Though declining to run for a fourth term in 1945, Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia boasted: “Listen, I could run on a laundry ticket and be elected!” At one time or another during his political career, the Mayor had run under nine different party labels—under as many as four in a single election. To the outsider and the New Yorker alike, this multiplicity of candidacies and parties in New York City is highly confusing. The multi-party system is due to many factors, especially the election laws, the size and complexion of the population, the existence of an active independent movement, and the recent political activity of and schisms within organized labor.

scholarly journals The Informant, Islam, and Muslims in New York City

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Bechrouri
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Islamic Theology ◽  
State Surveillance ◽  
New Yorkers

Surveillance is part of the Muslim New Yorker experience, and informants, almost always Muslim themselves, are part of their communities. It is in this context that Muslim New Yorkers partly rely on Islamic theology to question their experience with state surveillance. As this article demonstrates, Muslim interpretations of theology tend to see suspicion and surveillance as sinful conduct, rendering the mission of the informant sinful in the eyes of Muslim New Yorkers. Moreover, as suspicion, monitoring, and spreading rumors is often interpreted as Islamically sinful, targets of surveillance often feel conflicted about suspecting a fellow Muslim of being an informant or even discussing such suspicions with other individuals. Moreover, relying on Islamic theology to deal with their experience as surveilled subjects does not prevent Muslims from toning down their religious visibility in order to avoid state surveillance because of chilling effects and the mechanisms of internment of the psyche.

New Yorker's idiolect contrasted to the dialect of New York City

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Neuza Gonçalves Russo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Syntactical Structure

The aim of this paper is to make a comparison between the dialect of a New Yorker and the dialect of New York City. Such a comparison includes solely pronunciation and vocabulary because regional variation occurs mainly in these two levels and relatively little in grammatical forms and syntactical structure. O objetivo deste trabalho é fazer uma comparação entre o idioleto de um nova-iorquino e o dialeto de Nova Iorque. Esta comparação inclui apenas pronúncia e vocabulário porque variações regionais ocorrem principalmente nestes dois níveis, havendo relativamente poucas variações nas formas gramaticais e nas estruturas sintáticas.

“Women and Girls in Jeopardy by His False Testimony”: Charles Dancy, Urban Policing, and Black Women in New York City during the 1920s

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
LaShawn Denise Harris
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
York City ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
New Yorker

Troubling partnerships between the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and criminal informants during the mid-1920s adversely impacted urban African American women’s daily lives. Part of multiple hierarchies of municipal corruption, undercover surveillance operations represented one of many apparatuses law enforcers employed to criminalize black women’s ordinary behavior, to reinforce Progressive era images of black female criminality and promiscuity, and to deny women of their personhood and civil rights. Black New Yorker and criminal informant Charles Dancy, identified by local black newspapers as a vicious con artist and serial rapist, figured prominently in undercover police operations. Dancy falsely identified black women as sex workers and had them arrested, and in the process sexually assaulted women. New York blacks were outraged by some NYPD members’ use of informants as well as black women’s erroneous legal confinement. Situating informant work within the context of police brutality, racial inequity, and the denial of American citizenship, New York African American race leaders, newspaper editors, and ordinary folks devised and took part in resistance strategies that contested police surveillance operations and spoke on behalf of those who were subjected to state sanctioned violence.

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