Get Your Copy Habitats: Private Lives In The Big City Illustrated By Constance Rosenblum Distributed As Bound Copy

may be eight million stories in the Naked City, but there are also nearly three million dwelling places, ranging from Park Avenue palaces to Dickensian garrets and encompassing much in between.
The doorways to these residences are tantalizing portals opening onto largely invisible lives, Habitats offersvivid and intimate stories about how New Yorkers really live in their brownstones, their apartments, their mansions, their lofts, and as a whole presents a rich, multitextured portrait of what it means to make a home in the world's most varied and powerful city.


These essays, expanded versions of a selection of the Habitats column published in the Real Estate section of The New York Times, take readers to both familiar and remote sections of the cityto historyrich townhouses, to lowincome housing projects, to outoftheway places far from the beaten track, to every corner of the five boroughsand introduces them to a wide variety of families and individuals who call New York home.
These pieces reveal a great deal about the city's past and its rich store of historic dwellings, Along with exploring the deep and even mystical connections people feel to the place where they live, these pieces, taken as a whole, offer a mosaic of domestic life in one of the world's most fascinating cities and a vivid portrait of the true meaning of home in thestcentury metropolis.


Constance Rosenblum, most recently the author of the Habitats column published in the Real Estate section of The New York Times, is the longtime editor of the paper's City section and a former editor of the Times's Arts and Leisure section.
She is the author of Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, A very interesting book,
I really enjoyed it, "It's easy to feel alone in a crowd"

Habitats is a collection of articles that were written for The New York Times over the years, I liked it because there werepeople who live in the city that I have always dreamed of visiting, The book is split into sections to categorize the people into the type of life they live or how they ended up in the Big City, You get your starters, starting overers, the creative ones, the families, the ones reliving the past, the rich, and the ones who are not so well off, So with this combination of people telling their individual stories where does this book fall flat Well, first of all I felt like there was either too many people in the book that we did not get to hear enough from each of them.
It left me wanting to hear more about a particular family, but the other times I read about somebody and did not care to have even read it, The other thing I did not really like was that there were not a lot of pictures, Each story had only one picture to accommodate it and most of the time you did not really see the house, I had to use my imagination so many times to try and figure out how these homes were designed and what the decor was like, Aside from that I did like hearing how people pulled through their struggles and how others fell upon their wealth, New York is such an amazing city that I feel like these stories will never get old no matter how many different shapes they take and how many times they are told.
Thanks NetGalley and NYU Press for this copy, Very easy read this was one of my favourite columns from the New York Times, It was so nice to be taken back to the NY neighbourhoods and 'live', albeit briefly, with the diverse characters here, Some have tiny studios, some verging on mansions, but the writer is never patronising, just insightful and respectful, Very much enjoyed this one, Found it in a building's book exchange counter in Hoboken,

I was familiar with Roseblum's column in the New York Times, and always enjoyed reading it,
Here she has compiled some of those articles giving the reader a plethora of intimate lives and people's stories of how they made it in NYC once they arrive how they made a haven for themselves within the chaos that
the city could sometimes be.
I could relate to some of the residents, and that was very nice,

Serendipity paid off this time, There is nothing I love more than snooping in people's homes! My main complaints were that this was a too skewed to wealthy or fancy homes, It was very New York Times,Flights Up is the Village Voice version and I think we get more variety and weirdness, Also I wanted pictures. Color pictures and so many of them! I want to see inside these home! Constance Rosenblum, most recently the author of the Habitats column published in the Real Estate section of The New York Times, is the longtime editor of the papers City section and a

former editor of the Timess Arts and Leisure section.
She is the author of Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, .