"The best part of living in the city is not the designer stores, celebrity neighbors, or Broadway shows. It’s the nitty-gritty daily pains, the hole-in-the-wall places, and the average New Yorker with a good story to tell. A city with 'charisma' is a city that sparkles unashamedly with outright clash. New York is ever clashing, ever juxtaposing extremes: the essence of the city is its clashing of people, cultures, and traffic. It is the clash in New York that gives the city its quaint places, its glamorous places, and its history..."



A collection of 25 original essays about city life. Most are humorous, some are nostalgic. All are stories.