Many a rhyme takes place in the pulsing, pumping, lights and action of New York City. From the brownstones of Brooklyn to the Upper West Side delis, there will never be a shortage of stories with their genesis in old New York. Some of the best are from writers who roamed the streets from the turn of the century through the 1960’s.
There’s history, fact, fiction, immigrants, flavors, buildings, fashion, theater, art, fanfare, tragedy and triumph between these pages.
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. - John Updike
