Format:
Book
Title:
The little big book of New York : literary excerpts, essays, recipes, poetry, songs, history, and facts / edited by Natasha Tabori Fried and Lena Tabori.
Call Number:
810.8 Little
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Welcome Books, 2004.
Description:
351 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 17 cm.
Series:
Little big book
Little big book (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
New York (N.Y.) -- Literary collections.
New York (N.Y.) -- Miscellanea.
New York (N.Y.) -- Anecdotes.
Other Author:
Fried, Natasha.
Tabori, Lena.
Contents:
Songs. Give my regards to Broadway / George M. Cohan -- 42nd Street / Al Dubin & Harry Warren -- Lullaby of Broadway / Al Dubin & Harry Warren -- New York, New York / Fred Ebb -- Take the A train / Billy Stahorn -- Manhattan / Lorenzo Hart & Richard Rogers -- New York state of mind / Billy Joel -- Sidewalks of New York / Chas. B. Lawlor and James W. Blake -- Home, seet home / John Howard Payne -- Autumn in New York / Cole Porter -- I happen to like New York / Cole Porter -- Take me back to Manhattan / Cole Porter -- 59th Street Bridge stong / Paul Simon -- Englishman in New York / Sting -- Looking for love on Broadway / James Taylor.
Poetry. New York, New York / David Berman -- Letter to NY / Elizabeth Bishop -- Taxis toot whirl people moving / e.e. cummings -- In praise of New York / Thomas M. Disch -- Harlem / Langston Hughes -- The new Colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Get up / Philip Levene -- Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- I want New York / Ogden Nash -- Steps / Frank O'Hara -- 123rd Street rap / Willie Perdomo -- Couple at Coney Island / Charles Simic -- Photograph from September 11 / Wislawa Szymborska -- Broadway / Sara Teasdale -- Mannahatta / Walt Whitman -- The great figure / William Carlos Williams.
Recipes. Bagel spreads -- Black and white cookies -- Chop suey -- Drinks: Manhattan, Long Island iced tea, Egg cream, Milk shakes -- Hot dogs -- Ice cream cones -- Knishes -- Manhattan clam chowder -- Matzah ball soup -- NY cheesecake -- NY strip steak -- Pastrami sandwich -- Pizza -- Pretzels -- Pickles -- Waldorf salad.
Fact spreads. Architecture -- Bizarre and interesting but true -- The Brooklyn Bridge -- Famous New Yorkers -- Famous sites from around the state -- General facts -- The Great White Way -- The Hudson River -- The mob -- Movies set in NY -- Moments in history -- Parks -- Lake Placid -- Niagra Falls -- The neighborhoods -- On the books -- Skyscrapers -- Sports -- Songs about NY -- Taxi cabs.
History legends. The art scene -- Ellis Island -- The Five Points -- Immigration -- Machine politics -- The Statue of Liberty -- Theater then and now -- Transportation.
Essays. History of the United States of America during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson / Henry Adams -- Metropolis / Jerome Charyn -- American notes / Charles Dickens -- A hazard of new fortunes / William Dean Howells -- The death and life of great American cities / Jane Jacobs -- I go adventuring / Helen Keller -- Modern sports / Fran Lebowitz -- Willem de Kooning remembers Mark Roghko / Joseph Liss -- Sketches from life / Lewis Mumford -- SeinLanguage / Jerry Seinfeld -- The diaries / G. Templeton Strong -- The history of Dauphine and its voyages / Giovanni da Verrazano -- Here is New York / E.B. White.
Excerpts/Short stories. Breakfast at Tiffany's / Truman Capote -- Goodbye to all that / Joan Didion -- The immense journey / Loren Eisley -- The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- h The duel / O. Henry -- The lungs / James Huneker -- New York Jew / Alfred Kazin -- Apology for breathing / A.J. Liebling -- Atheist hit by truck / John McNulty -- Black spring / Henry Miller -- The rivermen / Jospeh Mitchell -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- h The diaries / Dawn Powell -- A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smigh -- My Coney Island uncle / Harvey Swados.
ISBN:
1932183027