JULIAN MACIAS
Unlike other great cities, as eminent essayist and New York devotee Lopate (Getting Personal) observes, “Manhattan is almost pathologically averse to letting you wander to the river’s edge and get close enough to touch the water.” In this loose circumnavigation, first up the West Side from the Battery to Washington Heights and then up the East Side from South Street Seaport to Highbridge Park, he takes the reader up close on an information-packed journey—dipping, as the particular location suggests, into memoir, history, current events, marine biology, city planning, literature, architecture, interviews, biography, films, ecology and more.
Video Credits | Marcus Möller