New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times Book

1	The house on West 11th Street	1
2	Spanish Harlem on his mind	17
3	The old neighbors	25
4	Everyone knows this is somewhere, Part I	32
5	Everyone knows this is somewhere, Part II	36
6	Nothing but net	41
7	New York's rumpus room	49
8	Manhattan '03	55
9	Back to the home planet	63
10	Latte on the Hudson	67
11	Screech, memory	75
12	Bungalow chic	81
13	The allure of the ledge	87
14	There's no place like home : but there's ... no place	95
15	The town that gags its writers	105
16	Rockaway idyll	111
17	Waiting to exhale	119
18	A "Law and order'' addict tells all	127
19	Look away	135
20	On the run	139
21	Marriage of inconvenience?	147
22	Rain, rain, come again	151
23	The agony of victory	155
24	Street legal, finally	163
25	Time out	171
26	Wild masonry, murderous metal and Mr. Blonde	175
27	Love's labors	181
28	Ballpark of memory	189
29	The paper chase	197
30	The war within	205
31	Uptown girl	213
32	My friend Lodovico	221
33	Fare-Beater Inc.	225
34	The ballad of Sonny Payne	229
35	The white baby	239
36	New York, brick by brick	247
37	Memory's curveball	253
38	My neighborhood, its fall and rise	261
39	Ship of dreams	269
40	The day the boy fell from the sky	277