Table of Contents
IntroductionPart I: The Old School
“Mrs. Manstey’s View” by Edith Wharton (Greenwich Village, 1891)
“A Poker Game” by Stephen Crane (East 40s, 1902)
“The Furnished Room” by O. Henry (Lower West Side, 1906)
“Spanish Blood” by Langston Hughes (Harlem, 1934)
“Sailor off the Bremen” by Irwin Shaw (West Village, 1939)
“My Aunt from Twelfth Street” by Jerome Weidman (Alphabet City, 1939)
“Johnny One-Eye” by Damon Runyon (Broadway, 1941)
“The Last Spin” by Evan Hunter (Washington Heights, 1956)
“New York Blues” by Cornell Woolrich (East 37th Street, 1970)
Part II: The Poets
“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe (West 84th Street, 1845)
Selections from Chelsea Rooming House by Horace Gregory (Chelsea, 1930)
Selections from The McSorley Poems by Geoffrey Bartholomew (East Village, 2001)
Part III: The Darkness Visible
“The Luger Is a 9mm Automatic Handgun with a Parabellum Action” by Jerrold Mundis (Central Park, 1969)
“The Interceptor” by Barry N. Malzberg (Upper West Side, 1972)
“Crowded Lives” by Clark Howard (Sixth Avenue, 1989)
“Young Isaac” by Jerome Charyn (Lower East Side, 1990)
“Love in the Lean Years” by Donald E. Westlake (Wall Street, 1992)
“A Manhattan Romance” by Joyce Carol Oates (Central Park South, 1997)
“In for a Penny” by Lawrence Block (Eighth Avenue, 1999)
“Two Over Easy” by Susan Isaacs (Murray Hill, 2008)
