The Cadillac Man is the pen name of a
homeless white American
White Americans are Americans who identify as and are perceived to be white people. This group constitutes the majority of the people in the United States. As of the 2020 Census, 61.6%, or 204,277,273 people, were white alone. This represented ...
writer who lived under the railroad
viaduct in
Astoria, Queens
Astoria is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to three other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, Sunnyside to the southeast ...
, New York City. His book '' Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Streets'' describes his experiences living on the streets. His notebooks have been excerpted in ''
Esquire Magazine
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'', and his writings on street life have appeared in ''
The New York Times
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''.
A 2006 documentary about him'', Cadillac Man: My Life Under The Viaduct'', has appeared in 14 film festivals.
In December, 2015, he moved into an apartment in Astoria.
Nickname
Cadillac Man does not publicly state his name,
but says his nickname comes from being hit by
Cadillac cars on different occasions in 1994.
Published works
*Cadillac Man (2009). ''Land of the Lost Souls: My life on the Streets''.
Bloomsbury USA March 17, 2009.
See also
*
Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton, is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is considered to be bordered by 34th Street (or 41st Street) to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the ea ...
References
External links
Neighborhood ReportNew York Times, February 2005.
NY Daily News
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, July 2005.
Judson Memorial Church SermonNew York, NY. 2005.
Year of birth missing (living people)
Unidentified people
Living people
American columnists
Homeless people
People from Astoria, Queens
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