{"id":199615,"date":"2026-04-16T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199615\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:29:07","slug":"hidden-histories-of-jazz-age-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199615\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hidden\"Hidden<\/a>Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange<\/a> (SUNY Press Excelsior Editions, 2026) by Jonathan Ezra Goldman offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City<\/a>, unearthing stories of everyday life and marginalized communities.<\/p>\n

In sections that intertwine entertainment, politics, art, technology, crime, shopping, eating, and recreation, the book portrays sweeping events such as the Harlem Renaissance<\/a>, Prohibition<\/a>, and immigration<\/a> through anecdotes of individual experiences that counter the era\u2019s popular conceptions of ballooning wealth and uproarious celebration.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Ezra Goldman\u2019s whirlwind tour of early 1920s New York City visits an all-female police platoon, a Black amusement park<\/a> shut down before it opened, an Arabic literary salon, socialist<\/a> Puerto Rican cigar factories, Chinatown<\/a> funerals, lesbian cafes, overcrowded jails, toxic dumps, and Ku Klux Klan<\/a> recruitment offices.<\/p>\n

The grand narratives of the 1920s interweave with little-known anecdotes about well-known figures such as Marcus Garvey<\/a>, Dorothy Parker, and Babe Ruth, serving as a backdrop to the everyday challenges and triumphs of the city.<\/p>\n

The Jazz Age in New York City was beset by crowds, automobile traffic, and rapidly changing technology<\/a> and urban infrastructure<\/a>, as well as erased stories of injustices like Jim Crow<\/a> practices, immigration anxieties, and the violent treatment of political dissent \u2013 stories still resonate today.<\/p>\n

Book Purchases made through this Amazon link<\/a> support the New York Almanack\u2019s mission to report new publications relevant to New York State.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more about New York City.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange (SUNY Press Excelsior Editions, 2026)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-199615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}