Thomas Heise is an assistant professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, Abington. He is the author of Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture (2011), as well as the novel Moth; or how I came to be with you again (2013) and Horror Vacui: Poems (2006).

Compelling and sophisticated, The Gentrification Plot offers richly detailed readings of recent NYC crime fiction that delineate and critique the destructive effects of gentrification. Heise's attention to shifts in geography and genre adds to the critical framework for reading, understanding, and appreciating the ethical stakes of contemporary fiction.

• Introduction: Death and Life in Postindustrial New York1. The Lower East Side: Cops, Culture, and the Creative Class 2. Chinatown: Policing the Ethnic Enclave 3. Red Hook: Blood on the Industrial Waterfront 4. Harlem: Uptown Dead Zones5. Bedford-Stuyvesant: White Boys in the HoodEpilogue: Escape from New YorkAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Thomas Heise is an assistant professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, Abington. He is the author of Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture (2011), as well as the novel Moth; or how I came to be with you again (2013) and Horror Vacui: Poems (2006).

Compelling and sophisticated, The Gentrification Plot offers richly detailed readings of recent NYC crime fiction that delineate and critique the destructive effects of gentrification. Heise's attention to shifts in geography and genre adds to the critical framework for reading, understanding, and appreciating the ethical stakes of contemporary fiction.

• Introduction: Death and Life in Postindustrial New York1. The Lower East Side: Cops, Culture, and the Creative Class 2. Chinatown: Policing the Ethnic Enclave 3. Red Hook: Blood on the Industrial Waterfront 4. Harlem: Uptown Dead Zones5. Bedford-Stuyvesant: White Boys in the HoodEpilogue: Escape from New YorkAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Thomas Heise is an assistant professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, Abington. He is the author of Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture (2011), as well as the novel Moth; or how I came to be with you again (2013) and Horror Vacui: Poems (2006).

Compelling and sophisticated, The Gentrification Plot offers richly detailed readings of recent NYC crime fiction that delineate and critique the destructive effects of gentrification. Heise's attention to shifts in geography and genre adds to the critical framework for reading, understanding, and appreciating the ethical stakes of contemporary fiction.

• Introduction: Death and Life in Postindustrial New York1. The Lower East Side: Cops, Culture, and the Creative Class 2. Chinatown: Policing the Ethnic Enclave 3. Red Hook: Blood on the Industrial Waterfront 4. Harlem: Uptown Dead Zones5. Bedford-Stuyvesant: White Boys in the HoodEpilogue: Escape from New YorkAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex