<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > Twin Cities Story: The Worst and Best Time in New York Today Copyright Information</h1>
ISBN：9787540475635
Barcode: 9787540475635 ; 978-7-5404-7563-5
Binding: Plain copy
Edition: 1
Number of volumes: None
Weight: None
Number of printing times: 1
Category: Literary > Anthologies
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > Twin Cities Story: The Worst and Best Times in New York Today This book features</h1>
● 28 contemporary writers, New Yorkers, recreate every new York life you are curious about
Welcome to New York, a seductive and deeply divided "city on both sides": it has a dazzling Broadway, elegant Lincoln Center, a noisy and boiling Fifth Avenue, rats speeding through subway tracks, dirty backstreets, and homeless people everywhere.
The *1% of the people in the pyramid own more than 1/3 of the city's total income, while thousands of children are still wandering the streets: What is it like for New Yorkers living on a cliff-like gap between rich and poor?
28 contemporary writers, New Yorkers, travel back and forth through this vast and lonely city every day, trying to describe the insults, heartbreak and helplessness of every wandering soul in the city.
Gentrification, housing, wages, health care, education system, racial issues, beliefs, sexual orientation, services, and socializing
Taking New York as a model, discussing the dilemmas that living in the world's megacities must face, from today's New York, peeking into Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo... The face of tomorrow in every modern city.
Combining fiction and documentary, the book depicts meticulously, "following the tradition of journalists and creating a hair-raising portrait of New York." ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > Twin Cities Story: The Worst and Best Of New York Today Content Brief</h1>
The book is a powerful response by 28 New Yorkers to the huge gap between rich and poor and social injustice; through fiction and non-fiction reporting, it chronicles the stories of people from all walks of life living in New York. They illuminate the lives of marginalized people hidden in the darkness, trying to find a little bit of humanity that has survived in this extremely divided city: here you can read the fate and legends of the homeless who sleep in the tunnels every night; the heavy pressure of gentrification on a Brooklyn neighborhood; the farce of the night shift assistants of the extremely marginalized firm; the intolerable tenants who resort to court trials to defend their rights; and the anger of billionaires trapped in a snowstorm People walk past lavishly decorated pet shops and yoga studios, which ironically open next to cheap hair salons and addiction clinics. This wonderful and moving collection of New York stories is a wake-up call to this city in crisis, reflecting on the future and future of the metropolis.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > Twin Cities Story: The Worst and Best Times in New York Today Catalog</h1>
Northbound 16
Select 32
Die a little bit every night 41
Edge of Darkness 59
Children who commit suicide 65
Partial Vacate 72
Where are we 91
Another four years 95
Back to origin 108
Foreigners of special ability 113
Confused Courtier: Lorenzo da Ponte in the United States 135
Etiquette, it's as simple as 146
Director of "Home in the Park Slope" 161
Home live in Park Slope 165
One minute before the fire, maybe two minutes 170
Service and Non-Service: How Bartenders See New Yorkers 180
A self-dividing street 189
District 6 205
Childhood 213
Engine 217
Synthetic materials, variable dimensions 228
**Avenue and Second Street 246
Home 256
Foreword to Little Destiny 1912 263
Little Destiny 1912 265
Looking for 290
If the 1 percent kills new York creativity, I'll leave here 300
Walter Whitman 306 in the far lane
Contributor 319
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > Twin Cities Story: The Worst and Best times in New York Today Excerpt</h1>
Tales of Two Cities: New York Today 's *Bad and *Good Times'"
City life is defined by the proximity of the crowd, and when some people feel that living in the city is not good, it can cause stress to everyone in the city. Bill de Blasio was elected mayor in part because he likened New York to a "city on two sides" in his campaign speech, a phrase that touched the heartstrings of people living in the city, calling it "the central problem of our time." New Yorkers can feel his frustrations and passions, and they can understand his dream that the city can be better. It could also be said that they were inspired by the idea he expressed during his campaign that New York had become an uninhabitable city because the differences between the rich and the poor, between the rich and the poor, between the rich and the proletariat, were getting bigger and bigger. The city's myth — a special place, a city of dreams — collapsed in the face of reality: New Yorkers' income gap reached the highest ever high.
I feel the need to mention a few numbers here, just in case you don't pay much attention to the news. Almost half of New Yorkers live in abject poverty, and over the past two decades, the income gap among New Yorkers has returned to pre-Great Depression levels. The 1 percent of New York's richest people, who sit at the top of the income*, increased their average income from $452,000 to $717,000 between 1990 and 2010. Meanwhile, the 10 percent of Income-Lower New Yorkers grew almost negligibly, rising from $8,500 in 1990 to just $9,500 in 2010. The wealth of this period was clearly tilted toward the rich. In 1990, the top 10 percent of households owned 31 percent of all New York income; by 2010, that number had increased to ]7 percent. And in this group, the super-rich make up a large proportion: In 2009, the top 1 percent owned more than a third of the city's total income. This message tells us clearly that today the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
The middle class is disappearing at full speed, even though they did exist for a time in American history. Just before De Blasio entered the race, James Surovich wrote a prescient column for the New Yorker, analyzing the general reasons for all this. The city relies heavily on the financial sector to generate revenue for it — the top 1 percent pays an incredible 43 percent of income taxes — but at the same time, it's a major contributor to income inequality. Moreover, the kind of jobs that underpin the middle class — such as manufacturing — have died. Between 2001 and 2011, the city had lost 51 percent of its manufacturing jobs. Surovich pointed out that the cost of doing business in New York was so high that factories, workshops, shipyards and everything else were moved elsewhere.
These numbers reflect extremely what is happening in many U.S. cities: People moving from the suburbs to living in the cities are rapidly driving up housing prices and rents in cities. New York is witnessing this trend in an exaggerated way. New Yorkers, who don't belong to the top 10 percent, find their incomes slightly higher, but they have to contend with a helicopter-like spiral of rents. Between 2002 and 2012, rents rose by an average of 75 percent. New York rents are now three times the national average, and as a result, almost half of New Yorkers' annual income is spent on rent. Many New Yorkers can't even afford to rent, let alone buy a home.
People living in New York City pay a high percentage of their income — in the Bronx, for example, an average family spends 66 percent of their income to rent a three-bedroom apartment — and therefore they are also poor. By the way, that's where my brother rented an apartment and stayed for a while.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > Twin Cities Story: The Worst and Best Times in New York Today Author Bio</h1>
John Freeman (Editor)
Former editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Granta and former national book
Critics Circle) Chairman. His work is common in newspapers such as The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal.
Molly Kabapu
Illustrator. Her portrait of Occupy Wall Street( the Occupy Wall Street movement) in 2012 received a lot of admiration.
[Translator's Introduction]
Jiang Xiangming
Translation. Born in September 1971. Graduated from Shizuoka University in Japan, majoring in European and American Literature. He is a member of the Shanghai Translators Association. Specializes in literary translation in English and Japanese. His major translations include Fitzgerald's "Those Sorrowful Young Men", Philip Ross's "The Ghost of Exit", Richard Yates's "Good School" and so on.
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