Beneath the surface of Manhattan's Riverside Park run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people took shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams ventured into the tunnel residents' world, seeking to understand life on the margins and out of sight.
Beneath the surface of Manhattan's Riverside Park run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused people took shelter. The sociologist Terry Williams ventured into the tunnel residents' world, seeking to understand life on the margins and out of sight.
Terry Williams is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. His previous Columbia University Press books are The Con Men: Hustling in New York City (2015); Teenage Suicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm (2017); Le Boogie Woogie: Inside an After-Hours Club (2020); and The Soft City: Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City (2022).
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Prologue Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Descent 2. Genesis 3. Underground Ecology 4. Men Underground: Bernard, Kal, and Jason 5. Working Life 6. Food: Restaurants and Soup Kitchens 7. Women Underground: Tin Can Tina 8. Beatrice and Bobo 9. The Tagalong 10. The Rabbit Hole 11. Reflections on Life Under the Street Endnote Epilogue: Mediating the Underground: Bernard's Exit Appendix A: Income and Housing in New York City, 2002-2014 Appendix B: Behavior Mapping and Cartography Appendix C: Interview Questions for Bernard, Princeton University, 2012 Appendix D: Bernard's Dream and Postcard Appendix E: Legacies of Harm: Policy and Policing Appendix F: Where Are They Now? Notes Index
Prologue Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Descent 2. Genesis 3. Underground Ecology 4. Men Underground: Bernard, Kal, and Jason 5. Working Life 6. Food: Restaurants and Soup Kitchens 7. Women Underground: Tin Can Tina 8. Beatrice and Bobo 9. The Tagalong 10. The Rabbit Hole 11. Reflections on Life Under the Street Endnote Epilogue: Mediating the Underground: Bernard's Exit Appendix A: Income and Housing in New York City, 2002-2014 Appendix B: Behavior Mapping and Cartography Appendix C: Interview Questions for Bernard, Princeton University, 2012 Appendix D: Bernard's Dream and Postcard Appendix E: Legacies of Harm: Policy and Policing Appendix F: Where Are They Now? Notes Index
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