In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century New York City has been convulsed by
terrorist attack blackout hurricane recession social injustice and pandemic. New Yorkers
weaves the voices of some of the city's best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in
our time-and a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people. Best-selling author
Craig Taylor has been hailed as a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman (David Rakoff)
acclaimed for the way he fuses the mundane truth of conversation with the higher truth of art
(Michel Faber). In the wake of his celebrated book Londoners Taylor moved to New York and
spent years meeting regularly with hundreds of New Yorkers as diverse as the city itself. New
Yorkers features 75 of the most remarkable of them their fascinating true tales arranged in
thematic sections that follow Taylor's growing engagement with the city. Here are the
uncelebrated people who propel New York each day-bodega cashier hospital nurse elevator
repairman emergency dispatcher. Here are those who wire the lights at the top of the Empire
State Building clean the windows of Rockefeller Center and keep the subway running. Here are
people whose experiences reflect the city's fractured realities: the mother of a Latino
teenager jailed at Rikers a BLM activist in the wake of police shootings. And here are those
who capture the ineffable feeling of New York such as a balloon handler in the Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade or a security guard at the Statue of Liberty. Vibrant and bursting with
life New Yorkers explores the nonstop hustle to make it the pressures on new immigrants
people of color and the poor the constant battle between loving the city and wanting to leave
it and the question of who gets to be considered a New Yorker. It captures the strength of an
irrepressible city that-no matter what it goes through-dares call itself the greatest in the
world.
