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
