Area Code 212: New York Days, New York Nights Book

	"Another day almost over"
	Performance art	3
	Looks good on paper	8
	A New York marriage	19
	Commencement speech at the community college of Beaver County	21
	Style	29
	White, single, and female, in New York City	34
	Mothers	39
	And baby makes four	42
	The New York child	49
	The New York jungle	50
	Willow, aged four and a half	61
	A miracle	62
	Eat your peas	63
	Why I'm a little-dog person	69
	A New York squirrel	74
	City squirrel no. 2	75
	The dog without a personality	78
	The difference between dogs and babies	85
	The catlady	89
	Ferrets	92
	Obsessed with ferrets	96
	A trip to the veterinarian	105
	Riverside park	107
	The New York birdman	109
	Queen of the Brooklyn rodeo	113
	Raped by butterflies	117
	A monarch in Manhattan	120
	The kangaroos at the zoo	122
	Harassment	127
	Sex, unable to	130
	My peculiar affliction	134
	Psychological testing	136
	A visit to Bellevue Hospital	138
	Old people	145
	Maybe I am, maybe not	147
	Gluttony	151
	The food chain	154
	The supermarket, part two	159
	The dinner party	161
	Salad	167
	City water	168
	New York wrestling restaurant	170
	An evening at the very fine Pierre Hotel	178
	The black hole in the donut	184
	Hors d'Oeuvres	190
	Bar and grill	195
	Durian fruit	201
	Tajine	205
	Why I love New York	213
	A heck of a town	215
	The city dweller's daily writing routine	222
	I was an elderly teenage extra in a video for MTV	224
	Art in the early '80s	229
	Andy, '85	240
	The story of publishing as told by an author	247
	Summer of excess	249
	Big city makeover	256
	Manhattan manners	263
	Some New York apartments	269
	Noise in New York	277
	New York media	280
	A New York bank	283
	The literary mafia	288
	Pearl river	290
	Net worth	293
	The economy of New York	297
	Movies	308
	Cross-town, cross-culture	312
	The same but not the same	315
	New York City, one more time	322
	Looking out	332
	Andy	335
	Something that still brings tears when I think about it	337
	The subways	339
	Assignment from the New York Times Op-Ed page	345
	After 9/11	347