| Physical description |
xx, 994 pages ; 24 cm |
| Notes |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Colonial Period (1624-1783) 15 -- Account of Henry Hudson's Voyage in 1609, (1611) / Emanuel van Meteren 23 -- New Amsterdam, Frontier Trading Post, from Historisch Verhael, (1626) / Nicolaes van Wassenaer 26 -- Letter of the Eight Men to the States-General of the United Netherlands Provinces Regarding the Fear in New Amsterdam of the Indians During the Wars of 1643-1645 (1643) 28 -- Representation of New Netherland, 1650 / Adriaen van der Donck 30 -- Exclusion of Jews from Military Service in New Amsterdam, (1655) / The Burgher Council 31 -- Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of the Town of Flushing (1657) 33 -- Description of the Towne of Mannadens, (1661) / Anonymous 36 -- Mercantilist Ideas, from England's Treasure by Forraign Trade, (1664) / Thomas Mun 38 -- Prosperity in New York, from A Brief Description of New York, (1670) / Daniel Denton 40 -- True Copy of Articles Whereupon ... The New Netherlands Were Surrendered (January 1674) 42 -- Demand for English Liberties in New York: The Charter of Liberties and Privileges (October 30, 1683) 44 -- Leisler's Rebellion: Benjamin Blagge's Memorial, from The Documentary History of the State of New-York, (1689) / Benjamin Blagge 50 -- Contract of an Indentured Apprentice (October 2, 1718) 54 -- From the New York Weekly Journal (March 11, 1733) 56 -- Andrew Hamilton's Defense, from A Brief Narrative of Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger (1736) 59 -- Great Negro Plot of 1741, from The New York Conspiracy, (1741) / Daniel Horsmanden 65 -- Trial of John Ury, from The New York Conspiracy, (1741) / Daniel Horsmanden 69 -- Description of New York City in 1748, from Travels into America, (1748) / Peter Kalm 71 -- Opposition to a Sectarian College, from The Independent Reflector, (1753) / William Livingston 77 -- State of the Province of New York, Cadwallader Colden (1765) 81 -- From A Tour Through Part of the North Provinces of America, (1774) / Patrick M'Robert 83 -- From Diary of Pastor Schaukirk, (1775) / Ewald G. Schaukirk 86 -- Journal of Lieutenant Isaac Bangs (1776) 89 -- Hessian Views of New York City, (1777, 1780) / Anonymous 92 -- Forgotten Saga of the Prison Ships, (1990) / Kenneth T. Jackson 94 -- Part 2. Rise to National Dominance (1783-1860) 99 -- From An Excursion to the United States of North America in the Summer of 1794, (1794) / Henry Wansey 107 -- From Travels, (1799) / Duke of la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt 109 -- From Travels Through Canada, and the United States of North America in the Years 1806, 1807, 1808 / John Lambert 111 -- Remarks of the Commissioners-for Laying Out Streets and Roads in the City of New York (1811) 116 -- Free Schools, (1809) / Dewitt Clinton 124 -- Accounts and Recollections of the War of 1812 from the popular press (1814, 1846) 132 -- From A History of New York, Diedrich Knickerbocker (1819) / Washington Irving 134 -- From Travels Through North America, (1825) / Karl Bernhard 143 -- From Notions of the Americans and New York, (1828, 1851) / James Fenimore Cooper 145 -- From Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828 / Basil Hall 152 -- From The Domestic Manners of the Americans, (1832) / Frances Trollope 156 -- From America and the Americans, (1833) / James Boardman 159 -- Letter, March 1, 1833 / John Pintard 162 -- Workies, from Men and Manners in America, (1833) / Thomas Hamilton 163 -- Diary: 1835, 1847, 1849 / Philip Hone 165 -- From Cinco meses en los Estados-Unidos de la America del Norte desde el 20 de abril al 23 de setiembre de 1835 (Five Months in the United States of North America from April 20 to September 23, 1835) / Ramon de la Sagra 171 -- Dans Kamer: A Revery in the Highlands, (1835) / Andrew Jackson Downing 173 -- From Democracy in America, (1835) / Alexis de Tocqueville 178 -- Letters from New York, (September 23, 1841; October 21, 1841; May 1, 1843) / Lydia Maria Child 180 -- From American Notes for General Circulation, (1842) / Charles Dickens 186 -- Two Worlds, from Journal, (1843) / Richard Henry Dana 195 -- Doings in Gotham, Letters III and V, (1844) / Edgar Allan Poe 198 -- Diary: 1857, 1859, 1863, 1869 / George Templeton Strong 202 -- Murray Hill Reservoir, November 25, 1849, (1849) / Walt Whitman 206 -- From Travels in the United States ... during 1849 and 1850 / Lady Emmelin Stuart-Wortley 209 -- Points at Midnight, (1850) / George G. Foster 212 -- From Moby-Dick, (1851) / Herman Melville 222 -- From Things as They Are in America, (1853) / William Chambers 224 -- From A Few Months in America: Containing Remarks on Some of Its Industrial and Commercial Interests, (1854) / James Robertson 228 -- From The Englishwoman in America, (1854) / Isabella Bird 233 -- From Land und Leute in Amerika: Skizzen aus dem Amerikanischen Leben (Land and People in America: Sketches of American Life), (1857) / Karl Theodor Griesinger 240 -- From Life and Liberty in America, (1859) / Charles Mackay 244 -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry and Mannahatta, (1856, 1860) / Walt Whitman 247 -- Part 3. Industrial Metropolis (1860-1898) 255 -- Selected Writings of African Americans in Brooklyn (1849-1928) 261 -- Republic of New-York, from Debow's Review, (1861) / George Fitzhugh 268 -- Up Broadway to Madison Square, from Ragged Dick, (1868) / Horatio Alger 273 -- Selected Writings on Central Park, (1858, 1870) / Frederick Law Olmsted 278 -- Life of the Street Rats, from The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them, (1872) / Charles Loring Brace 292 -- From The Age of Innocence, (1920) / Edith Wharton 294 -- Sandhog, from My Life and Loves, (1922) / Frank Harris 301 -- Selected Writings by Henry George (1879, 1883) 305 -- Vice-Buster, from Frauds Exposed, (1880) / Anthony Comstock 311 -- New Colossus, (1883) / Emma Lazarus 314 -- Bathing at Coney Island, from Coney Island Frolics, (1883) / Richard K. Fox 316 -- Senate Committee on the Relations Between Labor and Capital, Testimony of Thomas B. McGuire (1883) 318 -- Experience of a Chinese Journalist, from Puck, (1885) / Wong Chin Foo 329 -- Two Revelations, from Evolution and Religion, (1885) / Henry Ward Beecher 332 -- From How the Other Half Lives, (1890) / Jacob Riis 338 -- A Glimpse of High Society, from Society as I Have Found It, (1890) / Ward Mcallister 356 -- From New York History 1860-1890, (1891) / Theodore Roosevelt 362 -- From Darkness and Daylight, (1892) / Helen Campbell 370 -- Minetta Lane, (1896) / Stephen Crane 383 -- Selected Writings by Colonel George Waring (1897, 1899) 390 -- Part 4. World City (1898-1948) 397 -- Brooklyn Could Have Been a Contender, from The New York Times, (December 28, 1997) / John Tierney 407 -- Tenement-House Exhibition of 1899, (1901) / Lawrence Veiller 422 -- Padrone System, from Reports of the Industrial Commission on Immigration and Education (1901) 430 -- Plan of a City, (1902) / Jean Schopfer 436 -- Immigrant Attitudes, a Humorous View, from Observations by Mr. Dooley, (1902) / Finley Peter Dunne 440 -- New York: Good Government in Danger, from McClure's, (1903) / Lincoln Steffens 443 -- From The Gospel of Wealth, (1903) / Andrew Carnegie 452 -- No Constantine in Sight, from The Education of Henry Adams, (1904) / Henry Adams 456 -- Built Like a Bonfire: The General Slocum Disaster, June 15, 1904, (2001) / Edward T. O'donnell 458 -- Desirability of Comprehensive Municipal Planning in Advance of Development, (1905) / Calvin Tomkins 464 -- Day's Work of a "New Law" Tenement Inspector, from Charities and the Commons 17, (1906-1907) / Lewis E. Palmer 474 -- From The American Scene, (1907) / Henry James 477 -- From Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, (1905) / William Riordon 488 -- Selected Writings of O. Henry (1862-1910) / William Sydney Porter 496 -- Spirit of the Girl Strikers, from The Outlook, (1910) / Miriam Finn Scott 506 -- Scenes at the Morgue, from The New York Times (March 26, 1911) 511 -- Abram I. |
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Elkus, Opening Statement, from New York State Factory Investigating Commission (October 10, 1911) 516 -- From The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, (1912) / James Weldon Johnson 519 -- Judges in the Gate, from They Who Knock at Our Gates in American Magazine, (1914) / Mary Antin 526 -- Compact Between the States of New York and New Jersey, "The Port Authority" (1921) 530 -- A Meditation in Broadway, from What I Saw in America, (1921) / G. K. Chesterton 533 -- From The Color of a Great City (1923) / Theodore Dreiser 536 -- From Manhattan Transfer, (1925) / John Dos Passos 541 -- Arrangement in Black and White, (1927) / Dorothy Parker 548 -- An American Catholic Answers Back, from the Atlantic Monthly, (1927) / Alfred E. Smith 553 -- |
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General Retrospect and Summary, from The Graphic Regional Plan of 1929 555 -- Selected Writings of Thomas Wolfe (1925-1935, 1935) 564 -- Harlem Runs Wild, (1935) / Claude Mckay 575 -- New York, (1935) / Marianne Moore 580 -- Man-Moth, (1935) / Elizabeth Bishop 582 -- From Going to the Territory, (1986) / Ralph Ellison 585 -- Fourteenth Ward, from Black Spring, (1936) / Henry Miller 592 -- My Lost City, from The Crack-Up, (1936) / F. Scott Fitzgerald 602 -- Fairy Catastrophe, from When the Cathedrals Were White, (1936) / Le Corbusier 611 -- Apology for Breathing, from Back Where I Came From, (1938) / A. J. Liebling 619 -- From The Mohawks in High Steel, from Up in the Old Hotel, (1938) / Joseph Mitchell 624 -- In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, (1938) / Delmore Schwartz 639 -- Ten Misconceptions of New York, (1939) / Fiorello La Guardia 647 -- Eighty Yard Run, (1942) / Irwin Shaw 653 -- Making of a New Yorker, (1943) / John Steinbeck 666 -- Voice, (1945) / Woody Guthrie 673 -- Beyond, from A Walker in the City, (1946) / Alfred Kazin 676 -- Part 5. World Capital (1948-2002) 683 -- A Place (Any Place) to Transcend All Places, (1948) / William Carlos Williams 691 -- Here Is New York, (1949) / E. B. White 695 -- Selected Writings of Langston Hughes 712 -- King of Harlem, (1955) / Federico Garcia Lorca 720 -- Angel Levine, (1955) / Bernard Malamud 725 -- Remarks on the Groundbreaking at Lincoln Square, (1959) / Robert Moses 736 -- Day Lady Died, (1959) / Frank O'hara 739 -- Fifth Avenue, Uptown, (1960) / James Baldwin 741 -- New York Scenes, from Lonesome Traveler, (1960) / Jack Kerouac 750 -- Blackout, November 9, 1965, from POPism: The Warhol '60's, (1980) / Andy Warhol 760 -- Balloon, (1968) / Donald Barthelme 762 -- Introduction and Summary, from The Second Regional Plan (1968) 767 -- Goodbye to All That, (1968) / Joan Didion 779 -- Yankees, (1968) / Bruce Catton 788 -- Bedford-Stuyvesant: Giving a Damn About Hell, from Robert Kennedy: A Memoir, (1969) / Jack Newfield 798 -- 13-Point Program and Platform, (1969) / Young Lords Party 808 -- Get the Mafia and the Cops Out of Gay Bars, (1969) / Anonymous 813 -- From Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, (1970) / Tom Wolfe 815 -- Fallen Idol: The Harlem Tragedy of Earl Manigault, from The City Game, (1970) / Pete Axthelm 824 -- Ode to New York, (1974) / Reed Whittemore 834 -- New York, (1977) / Edward Field 838 -- Brooklyn Bridge, from Sketches from Life, (1981) / Lewis Mumford 840 -- It's Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are?, (1982) / Jay Mcinerney 845 -- Boodling, Bigotry, and Cosmopolitanism: The Transformation of a Civic Culture, from Dissent, (fall 1987) / Jim Sleeper 851 -- Auggie Wren's Christmas Story, (1990) / Paul Auster 863 -- Autumn in New York, (1990) / Murray Kempton 870 -- Manhattan, 1976, from About This Life, (1993) / Barry Lopez 873 -- Shot: A New York Story, (1993) / Elizabeth Hardwick 878 -- Talk That Talk, from In the Place to Be, (1994) / Guy Trebay 891 -- A Region at Risk: A Summary of the Third Regional Plan for the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Metropolitan Area Regional Plan Association (1996) 895 -- One Large Garlic and Anchovy: The Search for the Perfect Slice, (1997) / Michael Nadler 905 -- Second Inaugural Address: The Agenda for Permanent Change, (1998) / Rudolph Giuliani 908 -- Someplace in Queens, (1998) / Ian Frazier 918 -- Midnight Tour: Working the Edgar Allan Poe Beat in the Bronx, (May 15, 2000) / Marcus Laffey 927 -- Down and Out and Up Again: Walking Freestyle Through the Upper East Side and Sleeping Rough in Central Park, from Time Out Book of New York Walks, (2000) / Lee Stringer 937 -- Synthetic Sublime, from Quarrel and Quandary, (2000) / Cynthia Ozick 946 -- New York: Science Fiction, (2000) / Junot Diaz 962 -- Resilient City, (2001) / John P. Avlon 965. |
| Summary |
This major anthology brings together the best literary writing about New York--from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck to Paul Auster and James Baldwin. |
| Other author |
Jackson, Kenneth T.
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Dunbar, David S.
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| Subject |
American literature -- New York (State) -- New York.
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New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Sources.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel -- Sources.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Literary collections.
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| ISBN |
0231109083 (cloth) |
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