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Only in New York
An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City
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eBook - ePub
Only in New York
An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City
About this book
A "street-smart, informative and occasionally hilarious" look at the places, personalities, and history that make New York one of a kind (
Publishers Weekly).
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Reporter Sam Roberts has covered the city in all its quirkiness, both in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts. In Only in New York, now updated with new stories, he writes about what makes this city tick and why things are the way they are in the greatest of all metropolises on earth. These essays cover topics such as:
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-How New Yorkers react during disasters
-Maritime history (the Hudson River)
-Crowds, space, and population growth
-The pooper scooper revolution
-The Jewish Daily Forward
-What happens when a neighborhood loses its tony ZIP code, and more
"Roberts has covered the city for 40 years. So as we locals say, he knows from, and it shows in this fabulous collection of essays. With wit and grace, he tells stories of its citizensâsome illustrious, others not; some living, others long dead. But the story he's really telling is that of New York, and he nails it." â Daily News (New York)
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Reporter Sam Roberts has covered the city in all its quirkiness, both in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts. In Only in New York, now updated with new stories, he writes about what makes this city tick and why things are the way they are in the greatest of all metropolises on earth. These essays cover topics such as:
Â
-How New Yorkers react during disasters
-Maritime history (the Hudson River)
-Crowds, space, and population growth
-The pooper scooper revolution
-The Jewish Daily Forward
-What happens when a neighborhood loses its tony ZIP code, and more
"Roberts has covered the city for 40 years. So as we locals say, he knows from, and it shows in this fabulous collection of essays. With wit and grace, he tells stories of its citizensâsome illustrious, others not; some living, others long dead. But the story he's really telling is that of New York, and he nails it." â Daily News (New York)
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eBook ISBN
9780823281084Subtopic
North American HistoryTable of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
- Introduction
- The Biggest Apple
- The (How) Big Apple?
- A Streetlight Named Desire
- Fighting Words
- Go Figure
- Park No Cars
- Where the Boys Are
- To the Wind
- Birds of a Feather
- Where America Begins
- A Nose for News
- Fat City
- Alfred E. Newsman
- Angels in America
- Black Like Me
- Who Counts Most?
- Baseballâs Greatest Hit
- Scoop
- Whatâs That Sound?
- Sit Tight
- Knowledge of Wealth
- North by Northwest
- Christmas in New York
- What Has Four Wheels . . . ?
- An Open-and-Shut Case
- Eat Your Heart Out
- A Place to Die For
- The Best Policy
- Survivor
- Being There
- No More Bull
- Pay as You Go
- Crimes of the Century
- Articles of Faith
- American Gangster
- A Satisfying Life
- Court of Public Opinion
- The Mayorâs Man
- New Yorkâs Wild West Side
- Dynasty
- Hymie, We Hardly Knew Ye
- Nowhere to Go But Up
- Lost and Founded
- The Summer of Sam
- The Little Steamboat That Could
- Work Is a Four-Letter Word
- What Drives Us
- Election Lore
- Evacuation Day
- The First Thanksgiving
- Donât Settle for Less
- 9/11
- Dutch Treats
- Washington Squared
- Turnstile Justice
- The Green Book
- Thanks for the Lift
- The Latest Poop
- Let Them Eat Their Words
- Four-Star Finale
- Home, Sweet Home
- Just the Other Day . . .
- Tusk, Tusk
- For the Record
- The Blizzard of â06
- The Melting Metaphor
- Hail Tilden High
- Making It
- The Apartment
- The Other Summer of Sam
- The Final Confession
- Taking the Boy Out of Brooklyn
- Something to Crow About
- Please Donât Stop the Presses
- An Affair of the Heart
- Next
- Seen on the Subway
- Brownsville
- Obamaâs New York
- Acknowledgments