New York Dictionary
New edition published in 2025
An essential book for anyone wishing to discover the most authentic and complex face of New York, the city that never sleeps.
This is not a travel guide, nor an adventure book, nor an urban essay—and yet it is all of these at once. Dictionary of New York is a vibrant testament to the great American metropolis, woven by Alfonso Armada after seven years of living and working as a correspondent in the city. Its pages make room for people and characters, stories and History, writers and politicians, as well as literary and architectural references.
With prose that moves between reportage and poetry, Armada offers a journalistic, historical, and literary walk through a New York that has made masks, noise, and reinvention its way of being in the world. Above all, he delivers an intimate and lucid journey into the entrails of the city that never sleeps—a compass for those who wish to look squarely at a place that never allows itself to be fully captured.
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