Barrios, bloques y basura

In Neighborhoods, Blocks and Trash, Julia Wertz takes us to the back of that New York that you think you know. It is not touristy New York -the Statue of Liberty makes just a brief appearance and the Empire State Building does not appear at all- but its entrails, the most secret places in this city that, to this day, still does not sleep. Through magnificent and fun drawings and comics, Wertz reveals urban landscapes in which we can find "the before and after" of many of its most incredible corners and the craziest stories, such as the legend of Kim's Video, the tricky business from Ray's Pizza, the vintage junk and horse bones littering the Brooklyn shoreline of Bottle Beach, the pinball machine graveyard at the bottom of the Hudson, the abandoned Staten Island shipyard or the creepy biography of Madame Restell, the insatiable abortera of Fifth Avenue. Hand in hand with this New Yorker and New York philosopher, as good a storyteller as a cartoonist, and with an enviable sense of humor, we will visit bars, restaurants and street food stalls, we will know of booksellers and garbage cans, and we will enter tiny apartments or a luxury as exorbitant as its prices.