A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its peopleâfrom the best-selling author of Londoners.
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 cityâs best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in our timeâand a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people.
Best-selling author Craig Taylor has been hailed as âa peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsmanâ (David Rakoff), acclaimed for the way he âfuses the mundane truth of conversation with the higher
truth of artâ (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 Taylorâs growing engagement with the city.
Here are the uncelebrated people who propel New York each dayâbodega 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 cityâs 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 Macyâs 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 thatâno matter what it goes throughâdares call itself the greatest in the world.