January 25, 2004"New Yorkers did not need to leave their armchairs to go slumming in the Bowery, for a new kind of metropolitan press had emerged in the city of the 1880s and 1890s that constructed a mass audience by focusing the public's attention on precisely such manifestations of urban culture. Joseph Pulitzer's World and William Randolph Hearst's Journal... [built] a mass market to which advertisers could sell products; their journalistic voyeurism turned urban life itself into a commodity..." --George Chauncey, Gay New York. See: NoLIta: Hotbed of Hipness in Old Neighborhood, New York Times, January 25, 2003. See also: Handy Guide to the Emergent Neighborhood Destruction Genre at Lockhart Steele.com.
