Writing New York: A Literary Anthology Book

	Introduction
	from A History of New York	1
	The Stranger at Home; or, a Tour in Broadway	8
	from Domestic Manners of the Americans	16
	from The Journal	20
	from The Dairy	30
	from American Notes for General Circulation	51
	Letters from Staten Island	65
	from Open-Air Musings in the City	74
	from Doings of Gotham	91
	from Satanstoe	107
	Our City Charities	111
	The Eating-Houses	119
	from Life and Writings of Grant Thorburn	127
	Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	138
	The Old Bowery	145
	Bartleby, the Scrivener	153
	from The Diaries	191
	Passage in the Life of an Unpractical Man	241
	from Eight Months in America	250
	Tyrants of the Shop	255
	Personals	257
	Impostors	260
	Experience of a Chinese Journalist	268
	New York Under the Snow	271
	from A Hazard of New Fortunes	278
	The Down Town Back-Alleys	294
	Opium's Varied Dreams	308
	Adventures of a Novelist	313
	Drowned Their Sins	320
	Summer Complaint: The Annual Strike	324
	Whence the Song	327
	A Vanished Seaside Resort	340
	Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft	347
	The Curse of Civil Service Reform	350
	Boredom	355
	from The American Scene	369
	The Duel	382
	from The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man	387
	The Lungs	396
	Gramercy Park	407
	In the Metropolitan Museum	407
	Coney Island	408
	Union Square	408
	Broadway	409
	"Come Into the Roof Garden, Maud"	410
	If I should learn	417
	Recuerdo	418
	Coming, Aphrodite!	419
	The Tropics in New York	459
	The Harlem Dancer	460
	New York	461
	from Port of New York	463
	The Finale at the Follies	473
	Thoughts on Leaving New York for New Orleans	476
	Brooklyn Bridge	479
	To Brooklyn Bridge	485
	Exterior Street	487
	from Up to Now	497
	I Go Adventuring	505
	from New York	509
	The Police	518
	Roosevelt and Reform	528
	from The Diaries	538
	from Journey to the End of the Night	554
	West End Avenue	564
	My Lost City	569
	The Background	580
	Only the Dead Know Brooklyn	598
	Sense of Humor	604
	from Black Spring	614
	Millinery District	620
	from Autobiography: New York	621
	from By the Well of Living and Seeing	621
	Apology for Breathing	626
	When the Negro Was In Vogue	632
	Letter to N.Y.	640
	Atheist Hit By Truck	642
	The Television Helps, But Not Very Much	644
	Welcome to the City	648
	The Genial Host	661
	Story in Harlem Slang	680
	As He Seemed to a Hick	687
	It is Sticky in the Subway	690
	Aspects of Robinson	691
	Here Is New York	693
	The Cost of Living	712
	from Red Ribbon on a White Horse	721
	Hell's Kitchen	731
	The Long Furlough	744
	from A Walker in the City	749
	Up in the Old Hotel	756
	from Junky	781
	from Memoirs of Bernardo Vega	785
	A Step Away From Them	803
	The Day Lady Died	805
	Steps	806
	from The Immense Journey	808
	Fiorello H. LaGuardia	810
	Moving Out	820
	from The New York Diary	826
	from The Death and Life of Great American Cities	829
	An Urban Convalescence	834
	The Thirties	837
	The Climate	842
	Minton's	843
	Tourist Eye	846
	from The Fire Next Time	849
	National Cold Storage Company	857
	47th Street	858
	Panic in Brooklyn	859
	The Landmarker	869
	from The Fortunate Pilgrim	880
	A Sunday Kind of Love	898
	Goodbye to All That	904
	The Cafeteria	914
	Lou Stillman	931
	February	934
	Dining Out with Doug and Frank	935
	Mugging	944
	Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters	948
	from Sleepless Nights	949
	from Sketches from Life	960
	The Movies and Other Schools	966
	from Family Installments	976
	from Minor Characters	990
	from The Intellectual Follies	995
	from World's Fair	1006
	New York, 1936	1013
	from The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love	1022
	from Approaching Eye Level	1032