City slickers / William E. Geist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geist, William.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Book Committee.

New York (N.Y.)--Humor.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Humor.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xix, 363 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Times Books, [1987]

Contents:

Guerrilla golf

A no-sweat alternative to running the marathon

The mayor discovers baseball

The Columbia Lions' football faithful

Of wrestlers, politicians and showmanship

Central Park softball

At Yankee Stadium, a wistful September song

Speed merchants

A-marriage-a-minute

The espresso emergency squad

New York's one patient man

Tourists who stop at nothing

The litterati

Feted with trash

The New York City complaint department

Courtesy: a sign of weakness

Abandoned cars and a miracle on 104th Street: a car goes unstolen

Pothole pride

Roaches

Funny smells...

...and funny accents

Noon schmoozers

The Park Avenue deli

The mating game and other exercises at the Vertical Club

The pride of Bushwick

Acting like waiters, dreaming of Broadway

Shopping for romance at Bloomingdale's

Taxi dancing and romancing at Roseland

The melting pot bubbles in Rego Park

Plotting to sell outer space burial plots

The bold meat loaf initiative

The politics of what's-for-dinner

Stoplight entrepreneurs

Crash course in city driving

Manhattan's weekend drivers on the move

Oarlock

Car shepherds move their flocks

The orator of Pennsylvania Station

The swim mobile

Donald Trump, birthday billionaire

Ralph Lauren: holier than thou

Eugene Lang's "I have a dream" program

David Scharf, commandant of caterers

The Hanger King

Nelson Doubleday's newfound friends and relatives

In Brownsville, Chris Armstrong makes it more than just a game

Mafia rubout sparks interest

Sensational crime sells sensationally

Hanging on Bernhard Goetz's every bite

Jury duty and the creative excuse

Sidewalk cafés amid honks and fumes

Tofutti, and other sidewalk fare

Citizen Pruner Corps takes to the streets

Street performers

Getting in

Hair

Walking underpants

The retro resident of the Boutique Hotel

The puppy play group for the social animal

Central Park tree: 5rms, no fee, great breeze

Apartment angst

Homeless Harold

Of Murphy beds, Castro Convertibles and critical closets

Can and bottle pickers

Restaurant row soup kitchen: a tale of two cities

Tanned and titled

The millionaire's club of East Harlem

You and your fur

The gift of gloves

The outdoor type

Decals: giving poverty a pretty face

Models

The secret of the best-dressed list

New wrinkles in the war on aging

Weight watchers

Liberace

King Kong

Radio City's magnificent Christmas spectacular

Ear, nose and throat man to the stars

Bea's bloomers

The New York-Montana comedy circuit

The art of artspeak

Scalpers of the opera

Lower East Side art tour

Morris Katz: fastest brush in the Catskills

Coat checking at the Philharmonic

The Statue of Liberty work crew

Eight hundred car dealers salute liberty and Lee Iacocca

Chopped liverty

Family sails amid history.

Notes:

"The essays in this book originally appeared in the column 'About New York' in the New York times"--T.p. verso.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has stamp: "Library of JASA WSSC." on front free endpaper.

Other Format:

Online version: Geist, William. City slickers.

ISBN:

0812916336

9780812916331

OCLC:

15521131