The New York nobody knows: walking 6,000 miles in the city

Preface

Acknowledgments

Maps

1. Introduction

2. Selling Hot Dogs, Planting Flowers, and Living the Dream: The Newcomers

3. Diners, Love, Exorcisms, and the Yankees: New York's Communities

4. Dancing the Bachata, Playing Bocci, and the Chinese Scholars' Garden: Enjoying the City

5. Tar Beaches, Sidewalk Carvings, Irish Freedom Fighters, and Superman: Spaces in the Big Apple

Illustrations following page

6. From Washington Heights to Hudson Heights, from Soho to Soha: Gentrification

7. Assimilation, Identity, or Something Else: The Future of Ethnic New York

8. Conclusions

Notes

Neighborhood Glossary

Bibliography

Index