Ebook: Making the City

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Table Of Contents; Introduction; City Life; Takeout story: Behind bulletproof glass and out on a bike for a Chinese restaurant in Mott Haven; Designer shades, quiet hustle: The entrepreneurs of the New York City homeless shelter; Fast times on Avenue A: The life and death of Superdive; Politics; What Anthony Weiner learned from Chuck Schumer, and what he didn't; The gentleman commissioner: Why NYPD controversies never seem to touch Ray Kelly; Why is New York still stuck with the Metrocard?; Andrew Cuomo's favorite columnist is up in arms; Media.;A Palestinian food-cart vendor with a secret recipe and a Chinese family struggling to earn its living with a takeout restaurant in the South Bronx; an ambitious young politician with a knack for working the press and a police chief who's better at politics than his boss; a character actor trying to break into opera and a Queens rapper navigating t.