Introduction / Thomas Beller. Part I. The lighted window / Charles D'Ambrosio
The fracas at Washington Square Park / Sam Lipsyte
The sink / Elizabeth Manus
Out with the old / Fran Guiffre
Coco on the forty-seventh floor ; About a toy / Faul Felten
Aisles of New York / David Evanier
The model apartment / Erich Eisenegger
Time to fly / Ophira Eisenberg
Love and money at Sun Lin Garden / Tom Diriwachter
Art Garfunkel and othe problems of therapy / Meghan Daum
Manhattan sex clubs / Daphne
Uncle Ayman's hot dog stand / Courtney Coveney
Wagner in the park / Jerome Eric Copulsky
A cab driver prepares / Andy Christie
Foreign tongues and native toenails / Samantha V. Chang
Le gamin ; Swimming women / Andrea Brunholzl
Brookti and me: a story of adoption / Betsy Berne
Waiting on my agent / Jill Beuerle
Inside the Tanenbaum house / Adam Baer
The diamond-cutter's daughter / Hadara Bar-Nadav
Flushwick / Tony Antoniadis
The Gates, in context / Mindy Aloff
Frankenstein's tears / Kate Angus
The fire spinner / Abigail Frankfurt
Little devil / Roberta Allen
The day the war started / Gerald Howard
Local shops / Willie Perdomo
The liquor store / Saki Knafo.
Part II. Confessions of an accidental voyeur ; Dissent is a mrathon, not a sprint / Mickey Z.
Chemical fire / Jasmine Dreame Wagner
The super with the toy face / Ennis Smith
A troll museum curated by an elf / Mark Yarm
Hilda still lives here ; Downtown dyke in a midtown sports bar ; Filing away / Kate Walter
Oasis ; The shave / Joseph E. Scalia
The swordsman ; Scaffolding / Said Shirazi
The barber shops of Amsterdam ; Straight talk on hair village / Rachel Sherman
The Duke of Rock ; Forever everyday / Peter Nolan Smith
Vice president of procurement ; Shooting Fitty ; Fashion Week frustration ; Bucket boy ; The boilermakers ; The beheading of a bank manager / Matthew Roberts
The man in the window / V.L. Hartmann
Mole person ; Lick us / Kurt Rademacher
Madame Butterfly goes down / Thomas Pryor
Here I am in Bergdorf Goodman ; Small claims is a war of attrition / Sarah Miller-Davenport
Good news and revelations ; The mestizas ; A day with the delegates from Texas ; What mean "yo"? / Debbie Nathan
The doorman's double life / Mr. Murphy.
Part III. Fresh meadows revisited / Mmike Wallace
Wandallah / Beth Schwartzapfel
Me and my cane / Candy Schulman
The enchanted jury summons / Laren Stover
Dead rat walking / Jean Strong
Gangland in Greenpoint / Colin P. Delaney
The pole greasers / Vestal McIntyre
The good, the bad, the ugly / Josh Lefkowitz
Good vibrations / Stacy Pershall
The mayor / Anna McDonald
George isn't homeless / Melissa Dunn
Intersections on a dead end street / Elizabeth Grove
Sex and the GOP / Rebecca Schiff
Goons of New York ; The undistrubed / Jean Paul Cativiela
The touch artist / Jill Sand D'Angelo
After dark ; Kill Whitey Day / Michele Carlo
Room with a view / Stacia J.N. Decker
Monthly nut / James Braly
On the train tracks in Marble Hill... / Suhaey Rosario
Smalls, or the place where all the ladders start / Maura Kelly
Gee the kids need clothes / Christine Califra-Schiff
The scream / Elizabeth Frankenburger
Off-leash / Michele Bowman
Countdown in Red Hook ; Jam Master Jay / Patrick J. Sauer
The god of high school / Rachel Cline
Save the robots / Jane Ratcliffe
Chico's loisaida / David Gerlach
The diner / Madison Smartt Bell.
Part IV. Evan's ramp / Jocko Wayland
Year of the horse / Kael Goodman
Finding Fred: death and ice cream / Allan B. Doldstein
Karaoke fever at spectrum / Angela Cardinale Bartlett
The Union Square horror / Iris Smyles
My semester with Ralph Ellison ; Monkey bars for a jail ; The golden age of losing / Hal Sirowitz
I'll give no tip to champagne / Rachel Pine
On not getting the job / Greg Purcell
The attempt / Caton Clark
At the edge of the frozen zone ; Twilight in the toy shop / Christine Nieland
Your turtle needs a place to rest / Amy Brill
A dance with Spalding Gray / Neda Pourang
Today's prophet of misery / Katia Mossin
Frosted flakes and the primitive animal gods / Andy Hill
Hope in a jr / Sandi Sonnenfeld
Lypsinka speaks! / John Epperson
The brewbar breakup / Chrisopher Hacker
Found: Tyrannosaurus Rex ; Siddhartha of central booking / Patrick Gallagher
Cycles of love, sin, and redemption... ; To the woman on Craigslist... / Vince Passaro
The uprooting ; Philadelphia: its own borough ; Invasion of the caucasian ; Letter from Bedford-Stuyvesant / Denise V. Cmpbell
The silent beauties of West 19th Street ; May-December in August / Carolyn Murnick
The Gramercy Park litmus test / Elizabeth Beller
JFK on Broadway / Patricia Bosworth.
Part V. Knickerbocker Village / Phillip Lopate
Sad song scenarios / Jeff Johnson and Hunter Kennedy
The condiment war / Daniel Maurer
The job of the forcible entry team ; The liquid straightjacket ; We're doing it for them ; Just anothe part of the job / Thomas R. Zeigler
The politics of hair removal / Alicia Erian
The captain / Bill Schell
Origins ; The seed / Brooke Schaffner
Loaded hallways ; A fan's statistics / JB McGeever
The difference between chickens and goats ; Revising the footlicker story / Daniel Nester
The sawed-off past / Abigail Thomas
Surviving the Five Boro Bike Tour ; Being Steve Malkmus / Bryan Charles
A waitress on the convention floor / Martha Burzynski
Paul Newman on Sixth Avenue / Madge McKeithen
I #&($*! NY / Bonny Finberg
Neighbors / Graham T. Beck
The fate of the pear trees at Ground Zero / Bram Gunther
I left my youth at Fred & Rudy's candy store / Peter Cherches
Aroma-Deo ; The spoils / Suzanne Comeau Mars
Altered states / Susan Connell-Mettauer / War and Duane Read ; The afflicted / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Lost and found ; Pursuits ; iPod on the tracks ; The lady with the cupcake ; The stuff of life / Thomas Beller
Loose tiles ; The Jewish Holly Golightly ; Snofall / Jonathan Ames.