A New York Times Notable Book of 2017!Here isNew York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, & the guts ofNew York City, based onJulia Wertz'spopular illustrated columns inThe New Yorker&Harper's.InTenements, Towers & Trash,Julia Wertztakes us behind the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York-the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance & the Empire State Building not at all-but the guts, the underbelly, of this city that never sleeps. With drawings & comics in her signature style, Wertz regales us with streetscapes"Then and Now"& little-known tales, such as the lost history of Kim's Video, the complicated & unresolved business of Ray's Pizza, the vintage trash & horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn's Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Island's secret abandoned boatyard, & the hair-raising legend of the infamous abortionist of Fifth Avenue, Madame Restell.From bars, bakeries, & bookstores to food carts, street cleaners, & apartments both cramped & grand,Tenements, Towers & Trashis a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.°°°Julia WertzCartoonist. Urban explorer. Balatron.Sonoma County, CANew book:Impossible People, A Completely Average Recovery Story, out 5/9/23linktr.ee/juliawertzJulia Wertzis a professional cartoonist, amateur historian, & part-time urban explorer. Her books includeImpossible People: A Competley Average Recovery Story,The Fart Party,Museum of Mistakes,Drinking at the Movies, andThe Infinite Wait & Other Stories. She does monthly comics & doodles for theNew Yorker&the New York Times. After leaving New York City, she settled down in Northern California with Oliver (yes, that Oliver) & their son, Felix.