In the early 1970s, the writer Ian Frazier left a small town in Ohio to move to a loft in lower Manhattan. ” Gone to New York” is Frazier`s account of the city over the thirty years he`s lived there, a book as full of vitality & charm as the city it describes. It features street scenes from every corner of the metropolis, where every block is an event & where the denizens are larger than life. Meet the man who climbed the World Trade Center, learn the location of Manhattan`s antipodes, & follow Frazier down Canal Street in the mid 1970s, to Brooklyn in the 1980s & aboard the F train just last year. Like his literary forbears Joseph Mitchell & A.J. Liebling, Frazier makes us fall in love with America`s greatest city all over again
- just the way he did.