
Invisible Frontier
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Led by its two founding agents, L. B. Deyo and David "Lefty” Leibowitz, Jinx is a stylish urban adventure out?t known for its daring—if sometimes ridiculous—forays into the hidden wonders that lurk above and beneath America's greatest city, New York. In Invisible Frontier L. B. and Lefty chronicle Jinx's dramatic—if sometimes absurd—exploration of a Dante-esque New York, from the depths of the city's underground Hell (abandoned aqueducts and subway tunnels) to the pinnacles of its Paradise (rooftops and bridges) and everything in between, capturing the genius of the city's engineering, the vibrancy of its found art, and the elegiac beauty of its ruins. Here is a true series of wittily narrated adventures into the hidden world beneath a great civilization.
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- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- EPIGRAPH
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- FOREWORD
- PART I
- ONE LEVIATHAN: THE CROTON AQUEDUCT
- EXPELLED
- THE BODY
- DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
- A BURIED HISTORY
- WHERE THE GOBLINS GO
- ANCIENT ENGINEERS
- WILDERNESS
- REPULSED
- PHLEGETHON
- EMERGENCE
- TWO ART CRIMES: THE FREEDOM TUNNEL
- THE DESCENT
- A SHORT HISTORY OF GRAFFITI
- DANGERS OF SEARCHING FOR THE CITY'S LOST ART
- THE MYSTERY OF THE MOLE PEOPLE
- THE UNDERGROUND MUSEUM
- THREE THE APOTHEOSIS OF CURVES: CITY HALL SUBWAY
- THE FIRST SUBWAY LINE
- WE SET OUT
- THE CLAY PIGEON OF CHINATOWN
- FUNCTION AND FORM
- THE TOMB STATION
- A TUNNEL THROUGH TIME
- FOUR THE GOD'S-EYE VIEW: GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL
- THE BEGINNINGS OF THE TERMINAL
- THE UNDERGROUND AWAITS
- REGROUPING
- THE ROOF
- PART II
- FIVE INTO THE BREACH: SMALLPOX HOSPITAL
- THE STAIRCASE
- CHALLENGE
- PHILOGENESIS
- CHANGELING
- ACROPHOBIA
- SIX GHOSTS OF HARLEM: THE ABANDONED ROW HOUSE
- THE CAPSULE
- BROKEN GLASS, EVERYWHERE
- THE ROW HOUSE
- EMPIRICISM
- THE FIRE ESCAPE
- EXISTENCE AND ESSENCE
- SEVEN DIPLOMACY: THE UNITED NATIONS
- PREPARATIONS
- WE WERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
- COFFEE BREAK
- SECRETARIAT
- THE FACE OF NEW YORK
- EIGHT TAMMANY'S SHAME: THE TWEED COURTHOUSE
- THE FRUITS OF CORRUPTION
- BOSS TWEED
- THE EXPLORATION BEGINS
- IN THE COURTHOUSE
- THE LEGACY OF THE COURTHOUSE
- NINE THE ATHENAEUM
- THE BEGINNINGS OF THE CULTURE OF ADVENTURE
- JINX, COMMUNITY, AND THE MODERN-DAY ATHENAEUM
- A TRIP TO THE JINX ATHENAEUM SOCIETY
- THE DEBATE
- TEN FIRE BURN AND CAULDRON BUBBLE: NORTH BROTHER ISLAND AND HELL GATE
- THE GENERAL SLOCUM
- MISSION TO NORTH BROTHER
- THE WAKE
- HELL GATE
- AMPHIBIOUS LANDING
- TYPHOID MARY
- THE GROUNDS
- PUBLIC HEALTH
- TYPHOID
- ESCAPE FROM NORTH BROTHER ISLAND
- PART III
- ELEVEN THE BRIDGE OF BLACKWELL'S ISLAND: THE QUEENSBORO BRIDGE
- A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BRIDGE
- THE ASCENT BEGINS
- THE QUESTION OF THE MEDIA
- ONLY THE DIEHARDS REMAIN
- AT THE PINNACLE
- TWELVE THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
- THE GRID
- LOCAL GROUP, JULY 16, 1609
- THE MILKY WAY, JULY 16, 1609
- THE SOLAR SYSTEM, JULY 16, 1609
- EARTH, JULY 16, 1609
- NEW YORK STATE, JULY 16, 1609
- NEW YORK, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 12, 1609
- FORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 16, 1776
- GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 25, 1931
- GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE, ALTITUDE 320 FEET, SEPTEMBER 9, 2001, 7:45 P.M.
- GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE, ALTITUDE 490 FEET, SEPTEMBER 9, 2001, 9:45 P.M.
- GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE, ALTITUDE 220 FEET, SEPTEMBER 9, 2001, 9:55 P.M.
- GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE, ALTITUDE 601 FEET, SEPTEMBER 9, 2001, 10:10 P.M.
- THE MID-FIRMAMENT
- PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
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