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The bestselling author of Gang Leader for a Day reveals the secrets of New York's underground economy in this vivid memoir of sociological investigation "This is New York! We're like hummingbirds, man," explains Shine, a small-time Harlem crack dealer breaking into the elite cocaine market. "We go flower to flower. Didn't they teach you that in Chicago?" Sudhir Venkatesh's last book arose from his groundbreaking work in Chicago, revealing the true cost of doing business for drug gangs in the city's worst housing projects. After a decade learning the critical lesson of urban poverty—your neighborhood is your fate—Venkatesh arrived in New York expecting the same harsh certainty. But what Shine shows Venkatesh is something wholly unexpected: a city where neighborhoods mean nothing and networks mean everything, where the distinctions between race and class simply dissolve. In Floating City, Venkatesh explores New York's highs and...Pages of Floating City :
