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New York City Museum of Complaint: Municipal Collection 1751-1969
New York City Museum of Complaint is a collection of 132 letters written to the Mayor of New York between 1751 and 1969. Selected from the municipal archives and presented chronologically, the letters address a range of issues from dead animals in the street to swindles, capitalism, corruption, civil rights, adventuresses, bad luck, broken hearts, noise and other people. T...more
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published
April 1st 2009
by Steidl Publishing
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How cool is this? I found this book while clearing the floor and had to read it. This is a collection of letters of complaint to the mayor of NYC from 1751-1969. The letters I scanned were about a police officer stealing a 19 year olds baseball, a women in London asking the mayor to find her a good American husband, a man attacked by a gang of youth with a rock in a sock (fortunately he had a stiff hat on to lessen the blow), a concern that the mayor's motorcade went over the 4 mile per hour spe...more
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"10/21/1935. With this letter to you I am... buying a gun... I have no criminal record I do not mix with the cheap ladies or criminals... Why: Your restaurants and business institutions are going just a little to strong - 3 slices of tomato on 2 leafs of lettuce in the ...Automat cost 15 cents. The dirty rats have not seen the blood of women and children in the gutter."
I LOVE NEW YORK.
I LOVE NEW YORK.
One of the coolest coffee table books out there. Take a seat. Flip through this thing. Read what these people wrote to the mayor of New York between 1751 and 1969. Moan, moan, moan, all the day long with these people.
See how trivial Americans can be! 258 years and going strong!
See how trivial Americans can be! 258 years and going strong!
Hilarious and endlessly fascinating tour through the gripes of New Yorkers from literally every era. The letters about organ grinders are particularly amusing. If you have a coffee table this is for you.
Claire S
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JBG.
Great review here:
http://www.steidlville.com/books/816-New...
http://www.steidlville.com/books/816-New...
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