10024

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Manhattan. The Upper West Side. Zip code 10024.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A memoir of the author's early life from the ages of seven to thirty when he lived in this rarefied air. The true star of the story a New York neighborhood undergoing radical transformation since repeated by the city's other four boroughs.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Born in 1938 the author remembers city elements lost to development: the schools restaurants parks playing fields stores and the buildings themselves. Broadway was a cobblestone boulevard with trolleys. Indian Walk Shoe Store had a fluoroscope x-ray machine that let you see your toes wiggle inside your shoes. Egg creams were universally available. Lincoln Center was a slum.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You will appreciate this and other details of a bygone era in this</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>entertaining recollection of the life and the social history of one of New York's most famous and influential neighborhoods.</span></p>