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2 books celebrating New York City culture and community win the Gotham Prize
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This photo provided by Farrar, Straus and Giroux shows the book jacket cover for "Paradise Bronx," by author Ian Frazier, one of two winners of the Gotham Book Prize for outstanding work about New York City. - photo by Farrar, Straus and Giroux via AP
NEW YORK (AP) — This year's winners of the Gotham Book Prize celebrate New York City as experienced on foot, bus and train. Ian Frazier, author of “Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough,” and Nicole Gelinas, who wrote "Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car,” will split the $50,000 in prize money given for books that “encourage and honor writing about New York City,” award officials announced Monday. Philanthropists-political strategists Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson cofounded the Gotham prize in 2020 as a “way to uplift the creative community” during the pandemic.