Table of Contents
SECTION I: Here is New York Chapter 1. New Yorkers and their Neighborhoods Colson Whitehead, The Colossus of New York Katie Roiphe, Coney Island of the Mind E. B. White, Here is New Yorks Langston Hughes, Subway Rush Hour Ralph Ellison, New York 1936 Anna Quindlen, Pregnant in New York Ian Frazier, Take the F Willie Perdomo, Where I'm From Frances Chung, Yo Vivo En El Barrio Chino Nelson George, Fort Greene Dreams
Chapter 2. Immigrants and the American Dream Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus Langston Hughes, Good Morning Anzia Yezierska, America and I Junot Diaz, The Money Claude McKay, The Tropics in New York Frances Chung, Riding the Subway Is an Adventure Edwidge Danticat, New York Was Our City on the Hill Suki Kim, Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl's Habits
Chapter 3. Urban Education DeWitt Clinton, Free Schools Colin Powell, My American Journey Bilal Rahmani, Chronicles of a Once Pessimistic College Freshman Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican Alfred Lubrano, Bricklayer's Boy Howard Gardner, Five Minds for the Future Claudia Wallace and Sonja Steptoe, How to Bring Our Schools into the 21st Century
Chapter 4. Urban Art and Design Jos Parl, Research and Memory Joseph Anastasio, My Life in Graffiti Berenice Abbott, Photographing the City Lewis Wickes Hine, New York at Work Dinanda H. Nooney, Domestic Photographs of Brooklyn Rem Koolhaas, Prediction Donald Reynolds, The Making of an Icon Mark Naison, From Doo Wop to Hip Hop: The Bittersweet Odyssey of African-Americans in the South Bronx
Chapter 5. Current Issues 177 James Parrott, As Incomes Gap Widens, New York Grows Apart Brian Paul, Affordable Housing Policies May Spur Gentrification, Segregation Margaret Morton, The Homeless Mark Berkey-Gerard, Youth Gangs Aarti Shahani, Legalization and De-Legalization Courtney Gross, Despite Setbacks, Bloomberg Plan Has Made New York Greener Benjamin Shepard, Fighting Police Brutality in Global Brooklyn
Chapter 6. Exploring the Waterfront "Giovanni Verazzano Discovers the Bay" Russell Shorto, Henry Hudson: The Pollinator Walt Whitman, Mannahatta Ernest Poole, The Harbor Phillip Lopate, The Brooklyn Bridge Jennifer Egan, Reading Lucy Gloria Deak, The People, Parks, and Ambience of Brooklyn
SECTION II: Literary New York Fiction Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street Stephen Crane, A Dark-Brown Dog Edith Wharton, Mrs. Manstey's View O. Henry, The Making of a New Yorker John Dos Passos, I. Ferryslip Ralph Ellison, Prologue to "Invisible Man" Monique Ferrell, Tu Sabes: A Story In Three Parts Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss Ha Jin, A Good Fall
Poetry Hart Crane, The Bridge Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro Edna ST. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo Amy Lowell, The Taxi Langston Hughes, Lenox Avenue: Midnight Hilda Morley, New York Subway Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You Harvey Shapiro, Meditation on a Brooklyn Bench Abraham Benjamin (2011), Lost Son's Self-Assessment Taiyo Na, Immigrant Mother (Lovely to Me) Gang Starr, The Place Where We Dwell Meena Alexander, Central Park, Carousel George Guida, Life in the New World Toni Morrison, The Dead of September 11
