The Colossus of New York
by Colson Whitehead | 
Up in the Old Hotel
by Joseph Mitchell | 
The New York Nobody Knows
by William B. Helmreich | 
The Long-Winded Lady
by Maeve Brennan | 
Pieces of the Frame
by John McPhee | 
Seek
by Denis Johnson | 
The Ecstasy of Influence
by Jonathan Lethem | 
Halls of Fame
by John D'Agata |
Apple of My Eye
by Helene Hanff | 
Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan | 
Step Across This Line
by Salman Rushdie | 
My Ears Are Bent
by Joseph Mitchell | 
Table of Contents
by John McPhee |
Thick
by Tressie McMillan Cottom | 
White Girls
by Hilton Als | 
One Man's Meat
by E. B. White | 
Travels with Charley
by John Steinbeck | 
A Small Place
by Jamaica Kincaid | 
Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell | 
Two Years Before the Mast
by Richard Henry Dana Jr. |
In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author'??s stroll around Manhattan'??with the reader arm-in-arm'??remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America'??s foremost literary figures. Here is New York has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. The New Yorker calls it '??the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.'?