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Title: Invisible Frontier: Exploring the Tunnels, Ruins, and Rooftops of Hidden New York by L.B. Deyo, David Leibowitz ISBN: 0-609-80931-8 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 22 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW
Comment: Much more than I expected, much better than I had a right to expect. I hoped it would be entertaining and exciting, but I didn't expect to learn so much. The information ranges from ancient Roman engineering techniques to Cartesian geometry, from the price of three tables and thirty chairs at the Tweed Courthouse ($3.2 million in 2001 dollars) to the importance of Jupiter in protecting earth from comets. Thomas Hobbes, Idi Amin, FDR, Typhoid Mary, Pericles, Le Corbusier, the Chinatown Tongs, Taki 183, Malcolm X, Jackie Kennedy, Ted Williams and Henry Hudson all find their way into the narrative. The economics, politics, history, demographics, architecture and spirit of New York are between the pages of this slim volume, worked seamlessly into a series of adventures that were as terrifying as they were thrilling.
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb
Comment: How often do you find a book that really inspires you? Since reading Invisible Frontier I haven't been able to look at my city in the same way. Instead of seeing the dull surfaces of the streets and buildings, I see through them into the structures beneath. The steel skeletons of row houses, the intestine sewers, the soaring bridges and skyscrapers all seem vivid and enticing. I want to see more.
What you have to understand about Invisible Frontier is that it's a series of explorations layered on explorations. The phyisical discoveries and adventures are woven into intellectual discoveries and adventures. The reader follows our heroes into the ruins of Riverside Hospital, but also follows them into the past, when Typhoid Mary was quarantined there, and also into the churning chaos of the river that surrounds her island, and into the mathematics that govern that chaos, and into the agony of the shipwrecked souls who died just offshore in that turbulence.
The authors bring a light touch to their narrative. Their criticisms of contemporary life are trenchant and hilarious, but no more acerbic than their self-assessments. They frankly admit their doubts, and the absurdity of their conceits. It would have been easy indeed for them to leave out the failures, such as their inability to penetrate the Trilateral Commission headquartes. By leaving the failures in, they greatly enhance the thrill of their successes, and lend a gravity to their adventures. I enjoyed their misses as much as their hits.
I won't leave off without mentioning that their last chapter is the best bit of writing about 9/11 I have yet read. It is light, subtle, but deeply moving and beautiful. Don't miss this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A breath of hope
Comment: Invisible Frontier is a masterpiece. Leibowitz and Deyo are brilliant writers, thoughtful historians and powerful philosophers. The book provides a well-needed source of dignity and pride for a generation of lost and humiliated souls. Invisible Frontier gives meaning to our nameless era, turning Generation X into Generation JINX. I thank them both for honoring a city and an era.
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Title: New York's Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind the Subway by Christopher Payne ISBN: 1568983557 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Invisible New York: The Hidden Infrastructure of the City (Creating the North American Landscape) by Stanley Greenberg, Thomas H. Garver ISBN: 080185945X Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
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Title: Waterworks: A Photographic Journey Through New York's Hidden Water System by Stanley Greenberg, Matthew Gandy ISBN: 1568983883 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Underneath New York by Harry Granick, Robert E. Sullivan ISBN: 0823213129 Publisher: Fordham University Press Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth, Margaret Morton, Chris Pape ISBN: 155652241X Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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