Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story from the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders, An Urban Historical [Kindle Edition]

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When 65-year-old Homer Collyer, blind and crippled by rheumatism, was found dead as part of his dilapidated, junk-filled Harlem brownstone in March 1947, the discovery made all of New York's newspapers, as did the subsequent look for his younger brother, Langley, whose body was finally located under piles of debris. In this slim volume, a part of Bloomsbury's Urban Historicals series, Lidz, a memoirist (Unstrung Heroes) and senior writer at Sports Illustrated, examines the Collyer brothers' intriguing, baffling lives. The compulsive hermits came from the respected, well-to-do family and were educated at Columbia, Homer being a lawyer and Langley, who would be a talented pianist, as an engineer. They became part of The big apple lore in August 1938, once the World-Telegram wrote about the happy couple and their once-fashionable house on Fifth Avenue and 128th Street, which has been crammed full of pianos, other instruments, bicycles, chandeliers, clocks and a large number of newspapers, "strewn in yellowing drifts across the floor." Additionally to deconstructing the brothers' descent into their particular whole world of squalor and isolation, Lidz shares recollections of his Uncle Arthur, an eccentric hoarder who would be a featured character in Unstrung Heroes. Arthur amassed everything from magazines and bus transfers to socks and shoelaces and lived "nested inside his walls of junk." "My junk was being a friend," says Uncle Arthur. "Sort of the freedom, it was. I'd saved it within my own way." These words help make sense of men like Uncle Arthur as well as the Collyers, whose stories Lidz captures vividly, with humor and compassion.
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A true tale of changing New York by Franz Lidz, whose Unstrung Heroes is often a classic of hoarder lore.
Homer and Langley Collyer moved to their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. By 1947, however, if the fire department was required to carry Homer's body out of the house he hadn't left in twenty years, the area had degentrified, as well as their house was a fortress of junk: in an try and preserve the past, Homer and Langley held onto everything they touched.
The scandal of Homer's discovery, the tale of his life, and also the seek out Langley, who had been missing at the time, rocked the city; the tale was on top page of the newspaper for weeks. A quintessential The big apple story of quintessential The big apple characters, Ghosty Men is often a perfect fit for Bloomsbury's Urban Historicals series.
Praise for Unstrung Heroes:
"Unusual and affecting…[a] melancholy, funny book, a loony tune played with touching disharmony…"-New York Times