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Judith H. Dobrzynski

The Dark Side of Night— A Grim Gotham Nocturne

When I picked up Mark Caldwell’s New York Night, I was expecting a romp through Gotham’s fabled wee-hour life—restaurants, cabarets, theaters, jazz clubs, speakeasies, poetry readings. Mr. Caldwell, I thought, would escort me to Mrs. William Backhouse Astor’s famous gilded balls for the Four Hundred, and to the salons and parties that lit up Harlem Read More

The Dark Side of Night- A Grim Gotham Nocturne

When I picked up Mark Caldwell’s New York Night, I was expecting a romp through Gotham’s fabled wee-hour life—restaurants, cabarets, theaters, jazz clubs, speakeasies, poetry readings. Mr. Caldwell, I thought, would escort me to Mrs. William Backhouse Astor’s famous gilded balls for the Four Hundred, and to the salons and parties that lit up Harlem Read More