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Contents
PrologueChapter One
New Amsterdam Noir
The Dark Nights of Dutch Manhattan
What Happened at Midnight: February 25, 1643
From Stadts Huis to City Hall: The Dutch Night Englished
1679: Jasper Danckaerts's New York
Chapter TwoRattle Watch Nights
City Streets After Sundown, from Peter Stuyvesant to the Early Republic
John Crooke's Orchard and John Hughson's Tavern: Race and Violence in Pre-Revolutionary New York
Before the Revolution: Evenings with the Yankee Aristocracy
Into the Dark: The Great Fire of 1776 and the Urban Underworld
John Street Overture: Theater in the Later 1700s
Secrets of the Tammany Wigwam: The City Tavern, 1790-91
Chapter ThreeHearthside and Rushlight
Old New York at Home
Drawing the Shutters, Keeping the Fire: New York Houses in the 1600s and 1700s Manhattan Season: Winter, 1800-1801
Old Mr. Dunlap: Greenwich Village in the 1830s
Chapter FourBroadway After Dark
Pleasures and Horrors of Federal New York
Broadway Deluxe: Glamour in the 1840s
City Beat: The Moon in the Morning and the Sun at Night Hanington's Virtual Moon and the Dioramas of Monsieur Daguerre
"AWFUL CALAMITY—UNPRECEDENTED CONFLAGRATION!!"
The Great Fire of 1835
Mansion, Slum, and Boardinghouse
"DREADFUL MURDER ON ANTHONY STREET":
The Surfacing of the Criminal Underworld
Chapter Five"Bowery Gals Will You Come Out To-night?"
Nighttime on the Bowery Before the Civil War
Bowery People: B'hoys and Sporting Men
A Sockdoliger in the Bellows-Mover:
The Bowery Steps Out in the 1840s
Sex and the Antebellum City:
Gay, Straight, White, Black, and Charles Dickens
Showdown at Astor Place, 1849
Chapter Six"Under the Rain of Gaslights"
From the Civil War to the Gilded and Gruesome 1870s
By Owl Train to Harlem
Blazing City, Hidden City The Devil and Anthony Comstock:
Vice and Vigilantism in the 1870s
Woman in the Dark: March 31 to April 1, 1878
Chapter SevenElectric Costumes and Brass Knuckles
Glamour, Crime, Sports, and the Commercialization of Night in the 1890s
Rialto Market: The Business of Entertainment After the Civil War
Blood Under the Gaslights:
Prizefighting and the Rise of Nighttime Sports
"Depravity of a Depth Unknown":
The Turn-of-the-Century Underworld
Century's End
Chapter EightMr. Dieter Vanishes, November
The Volstead Act, Jazz, and Earl Carroll's Vanities
You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea:
Prohibition Unleashed
Supper Clubs: Benzine and White Rock at 3 A.M.
Jazz and the Jazz Age Night
Way Downtown, Way Uptown: Greenwich Village and Harlem
Nude and Stewed: The Story of the Bathtub Girl
Chapter NineFrom Poorhouse to Penthouse and Back
At Home, Homeless, and On the Town in the Mid-1930s
Hooverville Lullaby
Skyscraper Nocturne
Deco Defiance: Good Times in Hard Times
Mrs. Murphy's Parlor:
Radio Nights and Evenings at Home in the Depression
Harlem Once More: Floor Show at the Club Barron, 1937
Chapter TenWhen the Lights Went Out
World War II, the 1950s, and the Suburbanization of Night
1948, Drugs, and the Souring of Postwar New York
Postwar Blues: Lost in Beat Manhattan, 1950-1960
Nightclub Requiem:
Modernity, Crime, and the Nervous Streets of the Late 1950s
The Night They Busted Sophie Tucker
Chapter ElevenFull Moon Over the Stonewall
The Gay Epiphany, Discomania, and the Surfacing of Hidden Night
Revolution in Sheridan Square:
The Stonewall Riots, June 27-28, 1969
The Return of Monsieur Daguerre: Postmodern Night, 1970-2004
Naked Broadway and the New Millennium
EpilogueSpring 2004
Back to the Wooden Horse
Notes and Sources
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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