Showing Suburbanization of New York by Jerilou Hammett

The city that never sleeps also never stops changing. And while New Yorkers are renowned for their trendsetting  this thought-provoking book argues that New York City itself has become a follower rather than a leader. Once-distinctive streets and neighborhoods have become awash in generic stores  apartment boxes  and garish signs and billboards. Legendary neighborhoods (Little Italy  Hell's Kitchen  Harlem  the Lower East Side) have been smoothed over with cute monikers  remade for real-estate investment and for sale to the highest bidder.