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| Acknowledgments | xi | |
| Cast of Characters | xv | |
| Prologue | xix | |
| Part 1 | ||
| Chapter 1 | On the Sidewalks of New York | 3 |
| Childhood reminiscences from the Upper West Side | ||
| Harlem | ||
| Yorkville | ||
| Times Square | ||
| The Lower East Side | ||
| Chapter 2 | I Want to Be a Part of It | 33 |
| Winning auditions for the Philharmonic and the Met | ||
| Landing a job at the New York Times | ||
| Coming to MoMA from Portland, Oregon, and to Barnard from Brooklyn | ||
| Running the streets for the Mercury Messenger Service | ||
| Wearing "the uniform" at Katie Gibbs | ||
| Chapter 3 | If I Can Make It Here ... | 55 |
| Reaching for the stars: Stories of Zabar's, Russ and Daughters, and Balducci's | ||
| Making a name on Madison Avenue | ||
| Bringing the Beatles to Carnegie Hall | ||
| Discovering a calling in SoHo | ||
| Part 2 | ||
| Chapter 4 | Puttin' on the Ritz | 83 |
| Food: Le Pavillon launches a gastronomic revolution | ||
| From the Colony to Le Cirque | ||
| Fashion: Inside Harper's Bazaar | ||
| New York steals the crown from Paris | ||
| From Sophie's Salon at Saks Fifth Avenue to sewing skins in the fur district | ||
| Chapter 5 | Sanctuaries in the City | 117 |
| The glorious choirs of Harlem churches | ||
| Getting the call to the priesthood | ||
| The Brotherhood Synagogue and the Jewish motor of New York | ||
| Chapter 6 | High Culture or "Who the Hell Is de Kooning?" | 129 |
| The art and music scene in the postwar years: from the abstract expressionists to Andy Warhol and pop art | ||
| Memories of the great conductors | ||
| Summer serenades at Lewisohn Stadium | ||
| The move from Carnegie Hall and the Met to Lincoln Center | ||
| Chapter 7 | Making Music | 153 |
| Memories of Tin Pan Alley | ||
| Atlantic Records and the record industry | ||
| Working as an usher at the Fillmore East | ||
| Chapter 8 | East Side, West Side | 175 |
| Stories from the neighborhoods | ||
| The Upper West Side | ||
| Chelsea | ||
| Greenwich Village | ||
| Harlem | ||
| Chapter 9 | All Around the Town | 213 |
| When New York had eleven-plus dailies | ||
| The life of a reporter | ||
| Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan | ||
| Gangsters and the sporting life at the old Madison Square Garden | ||
| Nightlife from Toots Shor's to Elaine's to Irish pubs to nightclubs to theater | ||
| Part 3 | ||
| Chapter 10 | Politics As Usual | 247 |
| New York mayors from Wagner to Beame | ||
| Changing demographics | ||
| The financial crisis of '75 | ||
| Urban renewal | ||
| Roosevelt Island | ||
| Chapter 11 | Looking at New York Through Its Buildings | 267 |
| The changing look of New York | ||
| The Third Avenue el comes down, the white apartment houses go up | ||
| Preservation movements: the saving of the Jefferson Market Courthouse in Greenwich Village | ||
| The creation of SoHo | ||
| Reprise: If You Live Long Enough ... | 289 | |
| P.S. | 303 | |
| Photo Credits | 304 | |
| Index | 306 |
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Beth Regan
reviewed It Happened in Manhattan: An Oral History of Life in the City during the Mid-Twentieth Centu... on January 26, 2016 It Happened in Manhattan
It Happened... is a very interesting book, but it does have a flaw:black print superimposed on blach & white photos (which means mostly gray) is damned difficult to read.
sacrificing art for readability would have made sense.
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