Gateway to the Promised Land: Ethnicity and Culture in New York's Lower East Side

by Maffi and Mario Maffi

The cultural diversity of America is often summed up by way of a different metaphors: Melting Pot, Patchwork, Quilt, Mosaic--none of which capture the symbiotics of the city. Few neighborhoods personify the diversity these terms connote more than New York City's Lower East Side. This storied urban landscape, today a vibrant mix of avant garde artists and street culture, was home, in the 1910s, to the Wobblies and served, forty years later, as an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814755097
• ISBN13: 9780814755099
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"