Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York

by Terry Williams

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Aboveground, Manhattan's Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people have taken shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams ventured into the tunnel residents' world, seeking to understand life on the margins and out of sight. He visited the tunnels between West Seventy-Second and West Ninety-Sixth Streets hundreds of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0231177933

ISBN13:9780231177931

Release Date:February 2024

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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Social Science Social Sciences

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