Vanishing New York
by Jeremiah Moss · 19 May 2017 · 479pp · 140,421 words
Chelsea’s west side, from a scrappy neighborhood of blue-collar businesses to a shimmering pleasure dome for tourists and oligarchs, what many would call “Dubai on the Hudson.” In 1931, steelworkers began the construction of an elevated viaduct that would remove dangerous railroad tracks from the street and lift them thirty feet into