{"product_id":"habitats-private-lives-in-the-big-city-paperback","title":"Habitats: Private Lives in the Big City - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eConstance Rosenblum\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere may be eight million stories in the Naked City, but there are also nearly three million dwelling places, ranging from Park Avenue palaces to Dickensian garrets and encompassing much in between. The doorways to these residences are tantalizing portals opening onto largely invisible lives. Habitats offers 40 vivid and intimate stories about how New Yorkers really live in their brownstones, their apartments, their mansions, their lofts, and as a whole presents a rich, multi-textured portrait of what it means to make a home in the world's most varied and powerful city. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese essays, expanded versions of a selection of the Habitats column published in the Real Estate section of The New York Times, take readers to both familiar and remote sections of the city--to history-rich townhouses, to low-income housing projects, to out-of-the-way places far from the beaten track, to every corner of the five boroughs--and introduce them to a wide variety of families and individuals who call New York home. These pieces reveal a great deal about the city's past and its rich store of historic dwellings. Along with exploring the deep and even mystical connections people feel to the place where they live, these pieces, taken as a whole, offer a mosaic of domestic life in one of the world's most fascinating cities and a vivid portrait of the true meaning of home in the 21st-century metropolis.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConstance Rosenblum\u003c\/strong\u003e, most recently the author of the Habitats column published in the Real Estate section of \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, was a longtime editor of the paper's City section and a former editor of the \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e's Arts and Leisure section. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eBoulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.16 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130493472903,"sku":"9780814771549","price":30.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/25a643a93cc508a5013d4896623a65b4.webp?v=1732611273","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/habitats-private-lives-in-the-big-city-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}