Only in New York : an exploration of the world's most fascinating, frustrating, and irrepressible city

no One Denies That New York City Is Unique—but What Makes It Sui Generis? Sam Roberts, Longtime City Reporter, Has Puzzled Over This In Print And In His Popular new York Times podcasts For Years. In only In New York , He Writes About What Makes New York Tick And Why Things Are The Way They Are In The Greatest Of All Cities On Earth. The Forty Essays In This Book Cover A Variety Of Topics, Including: • Why Do We Have Doormen? • Is It Noisier In The City Or In The Country? • Are New Yorkers Really As Liberal As The Rest Of The Country Thinks They Are? • Why Wasn’t Manhattan’s Cross-town Street Grid Oriented By The Points Of The Compass? • If A Neighborhood Loses Its Tony Zipcode, Does It Lose Its Cachet? a Winning And Informative Gift Book For Every Fan Of “the City”, only In New York is Elegantly Written And Solidly Reported. publishers Weekly a Staple Among Readers Of The New York Times, Urban Affairs Correspondent Roberts Collects 40 Of His Podcasts For The Times Web Site—savvy Snapshots Of The City That Prides Itself On Its Restless Energy. Roberts (who We Are Now) Pens Snappy Glimpses Of Its Personalities, Trends, Events And General Mayhem, Including Topics Such As The Gender Gap And “eligible Men,” Fat New Yorkers, The New York City Pooper-scooper Law, Gangster Nicky “mr. Untouchable” Barnes, And The Terror And Fear Of The 9/11 Tragedy. His Writing Really Crackles When He Sinks His Teeth Into The Antics Of Some Of Those Who Put Their Stamp On The City, Such As Writers Norman Mailer And Jimmy Breslin In Their 1969 Madcap Political Race, Mayor Bloomberg's Deep Pockets For Wooing Voters Or President Obama's Early Student Days Of Roughing It In Manhattan. Street-smart, Informative And Occasionally Hilarious, Roberts's New Book Is New York City As It Is And Always Has Been. 20 B&w Line Drawings. (nov.) Foreword / Pete Hamill -- Only in New York -- Biggest Apple -- (How) Big Apple? -- Streetlight Named Desire -- Fighting Words -- Go Figure -- Park No Cars -- Where the Boys Are -- To the Wind -- Birds of a Feather -- Where America Begins -- Nose for News -- Fat City -- Alfred E. Newsman -- Angels in America -- Black Like Me -- Who Counts Most? -- Baseball's Greatest Hit -- Scoop -- What's That Sound? -- Sit Tight -- Knowledge of Wealth -- North by Northwest -- Christmas in New York -- What Has Four Wheels ...? -- Open-and-Shut Case -- Eat Your Heart Out -- New Yorkers -- Place to Die For -- Best Policy -- Survivor -- No More Bull -- Pay as You Go -- Crimes of the Century -- Articles of Faith -- American Gangster -- Satisfying Life -- Court of Public Opinion -- Mayor's Man -- New York's Wild West Side -- Dynasty -- Hymie, We Hardly Knew Ye -- History Lessons -- Lost and Founded -- Summer of Sam -- Work Is a Four-Letter Word -- What Drives Us -- Election Lore -- Evacuation Day -- First Thanksgiving -- 9/11 -- Dutch Treats -- Washington Squared -- Turnstile Justice -- Green Book -- Thanks for the Lift -- Latest Poop -- Four-Star Finale -- Home, Sweet Home -- Just the Other Day ... -- Tusk, Tusk -- For the Record -- Blizzard of '06 -- Melting Metaphor -- My New York -- Hail Tilden High -- Apartment -- Other Summer of Sam -- Final Confession -- Taking the Boy Out of Brooklyn -- Something to Crow About -- Please Don't Stop the Presses -- Affair of the Heart -- Next -- Seen on the Subway -- Brownsville -- Obama's New York. No one denies that New York City is unique—but what makes it sui generis? Sam Roberts, longtime city reporter, has puzzled over this in print and in his popular __New York Times__ podcasts for years. In __Only in New York__, he writes about what makes New York tick and why things are the way they are in the greatest of all cities on earth. The forty essays in this book cover a variety of topics, including: • Why do we have doormen? • Is it noisier in the city or in the country? • Are New Yorkers really as liberal as the rest of the country thinks they are? • Why wasn't Manhattan's cross-town street grid oriented by the points of the compass? • If a neighborhood loses its tony zipcode, does it lose its cachet? A winning and informative gift book for every fan of "the city", __Only in New York__ is elegantly written and solidly reported. An anthology of 40 essays on the unique combination of qualities that comprise New York City discusses such topics as doormen, city versus country noise and the truth about perceptions of New York liberal lifestyles. 25,000 first printing.