{"title":"Robert W. Snyder","description":"Robert W. Snyder is Associate Professor of Journalism and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of Transit Talk and The Voice of the City and co-author of Metropolitan Lives. Formerly the editor of Media Studies Journal, he also worked at Newsday, the journalism review More, the Tarrytown Daily News, and Channel 13\/WNET, the public television station of New York City. Snyder served as a consultant and interview source for National Public Radio's Sonic Memorial project on September 11 and the World Trade Center, which won the Peabody Award.","products":[{"product_id":"crossing-broadway-washington-heights-and-the-promise-of-new-york-city-paperback","title":"Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert W. Snyder's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrossing Broadway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear.\u003c\/b\u003e It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed \"Frankfurt on the Hudson\" for its large population of German Jews became \"Quisqueya Heights\"--the home of the nation's largest Dominican community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City's long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrossing Broadway\u003c\/i\u003e is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan's journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway--over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born--and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367070531807,"sku":"9781501746840","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/5VGTSjjjU_9781501746840.webp?v=1789102305"},{"product_id":"when-the-city-stopped-stories-from-new-yorks-essential-workers-paperback","title":"When the City Stopped: Stories from New York's Essential Workers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen the City Stopped\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Robert Snyder tells the story of COVID-19 in the words of ordinary New Yorkers, illuminating the fear and uncertainty of life in the early weeks and months, as well as the solidarity that sustained the city.\u003c\/b\u003e New Yorkers were \"alone together,\" separated by the protective measures of social distancing and the fundamental inequalities of life and work in New York City. Through their personal accounts, we see that while many worked from home, others knowingly exposed themselves to the dangers of the pandemic as they drove buses, ran subways, answered 911 calls, tended to the sick, and made and delivered meals. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSnyder builds bridges of knowledge and empathy between those who bore dangerous burdens and those who lived in relative safety. The story is told through the words of health care workers, grocery clerks, transit workers, and community activists who recount their experiences in poems, first-person narratives, and interviews. \u003ci\u003eWhen the City Stopped\u003c\/i\u003e preserves for future generations what it was like to be in New York when it was at the center of the pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368434532575,"sku":"9781501780387","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Pjx1za2EbL9781501780387.webp?v=1789128413"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/robert-w-snyder.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}