Nightshift NYC [electronic resource] / Russell Leigh Sharman & Cheryl Harris Sharman ; photographs by Corey Hayes.

ISBN:

9780520942066

9780520252714

Title:

Nightshift NYC [electronic resource] / Russell Leigh Sharman & Cheryl Harris Sharman ; photographs by Corey Hayes.

Author:

Sharman, Russell Leigh, 1972-

Personal Author:

Sharman, Russell Leigh, 1972-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

Nightfall -- One big family -- I'll take my chances on the nightshift -- Our own little city -- A stillness -- Stay awake -- You have to give up something -- Fulfilling my dreams -- I don't know where is the keys -- All night on the street -- Call it a night -- I just work here -- Everyone is the same down there -- The real hard core -- I'm here all night -- Night boat weekends -- Night fishing -- Different fish, different places -- Here is not my home -- Daybreak.

Local Note:

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Subject Term:

Night work -- New York (State) -- New York.

Night people -- New York (State) -- New York.

Added Author:

Sharman, Cheryl Harris.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2008

Publication Information:

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Shelf Number	Material Type	Copy	Shelf Location	Status
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Summary

New York is the city that never sleeps. This luminous book peels back the cover of darkness over the city as it hums along in the night, revealing a hidden world populated by the thousands of women and men who work and live the nightshift. Written with beauty and grace, Nightshift NYC weaves together cultural critique, vivid reportage, and arresting photographs to trace the inverted logic of the city at night. Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman spent a year interviewing and shadowing fry cooks and coffee jockeys, train conductors, cab hacks, and dozens of others who keep the city running when the sun goes down. Investigating familiar places such diners and delis, they explore some less familiar ones as well--taking us on a walking tour of homelessness in Manhattan, onto a fishing boat out of Brooklyn, and into other little-known corners of the night. Traveling past the threshold of voyeurism into the lives of real people, they depict a social space entirely apart--one that is highly structured and inherently subversive. Together, these stories open a compelling view on contemporary urban life and, along the way, reveal the soul of the city itself.

Author Notes

Sharman Russell Leigh :

Russell Leigh Sharman , Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College, is author of The Tenants of East Harlem (UC Press). Cheryl Harris Sharman is a writer and researcher whose work has appeared in The Lancet, the Miami Herald, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications.

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

Through conversations over the course of a year with hospital workers, cab drivers, restaurant employees, deckhands, bodega owners, transit workers, homeless outreach service providers, and others who, by choice or necessity, are awake while the rest of us sleep, the authors examine the "social space" of the night. The personal stories capture the peculiar mood of the night shift, from the dangers of working behind a deli counter or the wheel of a taxi when the customers are often drunk and ornery, to the camaraderie of diner and hospital workers who bond together during the dark hours. Almost universally, the night shift workers claim to lack sufficient sleep and suffer health effects from their schedules. Russell Leigh Sharman (anthropology, Brooklyn Coll.; The Tenants of East Harlem) and Cheryl Harris Sharman, a writer and researcher, contextualize the personal anecdotes of their subjects by seamlessly weaving into the narrative pertinent data on the economy, transportation, health, industry, crime, labor, homelessness, immigration, and New York City history. This well-researched volume is illustrated by atmospheric black-and-white photographs. Recommended for public and academic libraries.--Donna L. Davey, NYU Lib. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.