Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. Characters
1. Mr. Maxwell and Me
2. Strumming toward Self-Awareness
3. Her Private Serenade
4. Tom's World
5. In Noah's Room
6. The Days and Nights of Maurice Cherry
7. Werner Kleeman's Private War
8. The Chicken and Rice Man
9. A Life, Interrupted
10. When Johnny Comes Marching In
Part Two. Places in the City's Heart
11. Razzle-Dazzle Me
12. New York Was Our City on the Hill
13. Here Is New York, Right Where We Left It
14. Comfort Food
15. The Great Awakening
16. The Worst Ballpark in the World
17. A Toast, with a Shot and a Beer
18. The Secret Life of Hanover Square
19. New York's Lighthouse
20. Call It Booklyn
21. Breathless, Buoyant
22. In the Courtyard of Miracles and Wonders
23. Stranger in a Strange Land
24. Hard Times along Gasoline Alley
25. A Game of Inches
Part Three. Rituals, Rhythms, and Ruminations
26. Please Get Me Out of Here Please
27. The Starling Chronicles
28. A Chance to Be Mourned
29. Doodles à la Carte
30. Unstoppable
31. The Urban Ear
32. Children of Darkness
33. Tunnel Vision
34. The Unthinkable, Right around the Corner
35. His City, Lost and Found
36. Any Given Monday
37. Lemon Zest
38. Tree Proud
39. Faces in the Crowd
40. Fertility Rites
41. His Kind of River
42. Soul Train
Part Four. Excavating the Past
43. A Mother Lost and Found
44. Battle in Black and White
45. Morrisania Melody
46. BoHo, Back in the Day
47. Was He the Eggman?
48. When He Was Seventeen
49. A Long Day's Journey into Lip Gloss
50. Always, the Crack of the Bat
About the Contributors
About the Editor