Writing New York: a literary anthology

from A History of New York / Washington Irving

Stranger at Home; or, a Tour in Broadway / James Kirke Paulding

from Domestic Manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope

from The Journal / Fanny Kemble

from The Dairy / Philip Hone

from American Notes for General Circulation / Charles Dickens

Letters from Staten Island / Henry David Thoreau

from Open-Air Musings in the City / Nathaniel Parker Willis

from Doings of Gotham / Edgar Allan Poe

from Satanstoe / James Fenimore Cooper

Our City Charities / Margaret Fuller

Eating-Houses / George G. Foster

from Life and Writings of Grant Thorburn / Grant Thorburn

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / Walt Whitman

Old Bowery / Walt Whitman

Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville

from The Diaries / George Templeton Strong

Passage in the Life of an Unpractical Man / Frederick Law Olmsted

from Eight Months in America / Ernest Duvergier de Hauranne

Tyrants of the Shop / Fanny Fern

Personals / Mark Twain

Impostors / James D. McCabe

Experience of a Chinese Journalist / Wong Chin Foo

New York Under the Snow / Jose Marti

from A Hazard of New Fortunes / William Dean Howells

Down Town Back-Alleys / Jacob Riis

Opium's Varied Dreams / Stephen Crane

Adventures of a Novelist / Stephen Crane

Drowned Their Sins / Abraham Cahan

Summer Complaint: The Annual Strike / Abraham Cahan

Whence the Song / Theodore Dreiser

Vanished Seaside Resort / Theodore Dreiser

Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft / George W. Plunkitt and William L. Riordan

Curse of Civil Service Reform / George W. Plunkitt and William L. Riordan

Boredom / Maxim Gorky

from The American Scene / Henry James

Duel / O. Henry

from The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / James Weldon Johnson

Lungs / James Huneker

Gramercy Park / Sara Teasdale

In the Metropolitan Museum / Sara Teasdale

Coney Island / Sara Teasdale

Union Square / Sara Teasdale

Broadway / Sara Teasdale

"Come Into the Roof Garden, Maud" / Djuna Barnes

If I should learn / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Coming, Aphrodite! / Willa Cather

Tropics in New York / Claude McKay

Harlem Dancer / Claude McKay

New York / Marianne Moore

from Port of New York / Paul Rosenfeld

Finale at the Follies / Edmund Wilson

Thoughts on Leaving New York for New Orleans / Edmund Wilson

Brooklyn Bridge / Vladimir Mayakovsky

To Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane

Exterior Street / Stephen Graham

from Up to Now / Al Smith

I Go Adventuring / Helen Keller

from New York / Paul Morand

Police / Lincoln Steffens

Roosevelt and Reform / Lincoln Steffens

from The Diaries / Dawn Powell

from Journey to the End of the Night / Louis-Ferdinand Celine

West End Avenue / Christopher Morley

My Lost City / F. Scott Fitzgerald

Background / Edith Wharton

Only the Dead Know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe

Sense of Humor / Damon Runyon

from Black Spring / Henry Miller

Millinery District / Charles Reznikoff

from Autobiography: New York / Charles Reznikoff

from By the Well of Living and Seeing / Charles Reznikoff

Apology for Breathing / A. J. Liebling

When the Negro Was In Vogue / Langston Hughes

Letter to N.Y. / Elizabeth Bishop

Atheist Hit By Truck / John McNulty

Television Helps, But Not Very Much / John McNulty

Welcome to the City / Irwin Shaw

Genial Host / Mary McCarthy

Story in Harlem Slang / Zora Neale Hurston

As He Seemed to a Hick / Red Smith

It is Sticky in the Subway / David Schubert

Aspects of Robinson / Weldon Kees

Here Is New York / E. B. White

Cost of Living / Bernard Malamud

from Red Ribbon on a White Horse / Anzia Yezierska

Hell's Kitchen / William Carlos Williams

Long Furlough / Malcolm Cowley

from A Walker in the City / Alfred Kazin

Up in the Old Hotel / Joseph Mitchell

from Junky / William S. Burroughs

from Memoirs of Bernardo Vega / Bernardo Vega

Step Away From Them / Frank O'Hara

Day Lady Died / Frank O'Hara

Steps / Frank O'Hara

from The Immense Journey / Loren Eiseley

Fiorello H. LaGuardia / Robert Moses

Moving Out / John Cheever

from The New York Diary / Ned Rorem

from The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane Jacobs

Urban Convalescence / James Merrill

Thirties / Edwin Denby

Climate / Edwin Denby

Minton's / Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)

Tourist Eye / George Oppen

from The Fire Next Time / James Baldwin

National Cold Storage Company / Harvey Shapiro

47th Street / Harvey Shapiro

Panic in Brooklyn / Gay Talese

Landmarker / Louis Auchincloss

from The Fortunate Pilgrim / Mario Puzo

Sunday Kind of Love / Tom Wolfe

Goodbye to All That / Joan Didion

Cafeteria / Isaac Bashevis Singer

Lou Stillman / Jimmy Cannon

February / James Schuyler

Dining Out with Doug and Frank / James Schuyler

Mugging / Allen Ginsberg

Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters / Allen Ginsberg

from Sleepless Nights / Elizabeth Hardwick

from Sketches from Life / Lewis Mumford

Movies and Other Schools / Kate Simon

from Family Installments / Edward Rivera

from Minor Characters / Joyce Johnson

from The Intellectual Follies / Lionel Abel

from World's Fair / E. L. Doctorow

New York, 1936 / Ralph Ellison

from The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love / Oscar Hijuelos

from Approaching Eye Level / Vivian Cornick.