New York Stories : The Best of the City Section of the New York Times / edited by Constance Rosenblum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosenblum, Constance.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--New York (State)--New York--Anecdotes.

City and town life.

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--Anecdotes.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Biography--Anecdotes.

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Anecdotes.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New York University Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"There are eight million stories in the Naked City." This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City itself. One publication cultivating many of New York City's greatest stories is the City section in The New York Times . Each Sunday, this section of The New York Times , distributed only in papers in the five boroughs, captivates readers with tales of people and places that make the city unique. Featuring a cast of stellar writers-Phillip Lopate, Vivian Gornick, Thomas Beller and Laura Shaine Cunningham, among others- New York Stories brings some of the

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; Part I A Sense of Place; The House on West 11th Street; Spanish Harlem on His Mind; The Old Neighbors; Everyone Knows This Is Somewhere, Part I; Everyone Knows This Is Somewhere, Part II; Nothing But Net; New York's Rumpus Room; Manhattan ' 03; Back to the Home Planet; Latte on the Hudson; Screech, Memory; Bungalow Chic; Part II Moods and Mores; The Allure of the Ledge; There's No Place Like Home. But There's . . . No Place; The Town That Gags Its Writers; Rockaway Idyll; Waiting to Exhale; A "Law and Order" Addict Tells All; Look Away; On the Run

Marriage of Inconvenience?Rain, Rain, Come Again; The Agony of Victory; Street Legal, Finally; Time Out; Wild Masonry, Murderous Metal and Mr. Blonde; Part III New Yorkers; Love's Labors; Ballpark of Memory; The Paper Chase; The War Within; Uptown Girl; My Friend Lodovico; Fare-Beater Inc.; The Ballad of Sonny Payne; Part IV City Lore; The White Baby; New York, Brick by Brick; Memory's Curveball; My Neighborhood, Its Fall and Rise; Ship of Dreams; The Day the Boy Fell From the Sky; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; A B O U T T H E E D I T O R

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814777237

0814777236

9780814769355

0814769357

OCLC:

780425937