New York City folklore : legends, tall tales, anecdotes, stories, sagas, heroes and characters, customs, traditions, and sayings /
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| Imprint: | New York : Random House, ©1956. |
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| Description: | 492 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1960704 |
Table of Contents:
- STRANGER'S GUIDE
- "A nice place to visit"
- Seeing New York
- Talk New York
- What Brooklyn laughs at
- "Everything outside of Broadway is Bridgeport"
- What's up?
- Live and let live
- TWENTY-FOUR-DOLLAR ISLAND
- What the Indians thought of the Dutch
- Indian account of Henry Hudson's visit to Manhattan Island
- The name "Manhattan"
- The price of Manhattan
- "Spouting Devil" or "In spite of the Devil"
- The storn ship
- "Old Silver Nails"
- The ghost of Peter Stuyvesant
- How "Coney Island" got its name
- The "East" and "North" rivers
- Captain Kidd on Wall Street
- The legend of Captain Billopp
- Mrs. Murray's Madeira
- METROPOLIS IN THE MAKING
- The high stoop
- Why the north-south streets are wide apart
- Brillât-Savarin's drinking bout
- The great Center Market hoax: "Sawing the island off"
- Barnum and the glorious fourth
- Beecher's slave auction
- Tweed, the sailor, and the water-throwing contest
- The christening of the little church around the corner
- Humor of the blizzard of '88
- The first steel skeleton skyscraper
- STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS
- The Astor story
- The commodore
- Daniel Drew's handkerchief trick
- The Erie
- W. H. Vanderbilt's Park Avenue pasture
- J. P. Morgan wipes out a deficit
- Hetty Green
- Cool operator: Jim Fisk speeds the parting passenger
- A. T. Stewart
- Macy's
- Brooks Brothers' "see-you" customers
- How Lane Bryant was born
- The missing Wanamaker label
- Sherry never disappoints a patron
- PEACOCKS ON PARADE
- Peacock Alley
- The hyphen
- Mrs. Astor's ball
- The Seeley dinner
- Bishop Potter says grace
- "Like a part of the saddle"
- The lost week-end
- Death in the night
- The death of Jim Fisk
- OLD SALOON DAYS
- Why saloons became political centers
- The origin of the corner saloon
- The greatest bartender in America
- Old John McSorley and the oldest saloon in New York City
- The Bronx cocktail
- Tom Flynn's temperance lecture
- The smasher
- Free lunch and the bum's rush
- Third Avenue medicine
- CITY FATHERS, BOSSES AND SERVANTS
- Father Knickerbocker
- Herald of the city
- How Grover Whalen started the ticker-tape welcome
- Seth Low and the law
- Jimmy Walker
- The "little flower" and the pushcart peddlers
- Let the aldermen sleep
- Al Smith
- Tricks of campaign club strikers
- Waring's white wings
- Street name crisis
- Saved from Potter's field
- A cop's yarns
- "Shoo flies" and "Coops"
- The fire laddie's revenge
- High-ladder boys
- SUCKER'S PARADISE
- The country merchant and the city merchant
- A Kentucky colonel in New York
- The talking owl
- Diamond cut diamond
- The ring trick
- Bunco-steering and the sawdust game
- Creep and panel houses
- A gaming hell romance
- Matrimonial brokers of the sixties
- A corner in rusty knives: how George Stivers invented pitch
- "Everybody likes to be humbugged"
- Beggar dodges
- Beckie the malingerer
- The Tiffany man and the blonde
- The locker trick
- Clip joints
- Wilson Mizner on suckers
- "YOU WALK AROUND A CORNER, AND IT'S A DIFFERENT WORLD"
- Ellis Island adventures of immigrants en route to points beyond New York
- Suit-hunting avenue
- East side pushcarts
- Knishes and pasteles calientes on Delancey Street
- The Old Bowery from Vauxhall Garden to Big Mose
- Steve Brodie
- Rubberneck stories
- Minutes of the monthly meeting of the Bowery Chamber of Commerce
- "Professor"
- Bowery fairy tales
- Chuck Conners, Mayor of Chinatown
- The mayor of the fish market
- Washington Market
- Garmet center
- The great Columbus Day parade feud
- The four faces of Greewich Village
- Luke O'Connor
- The house of frustration
- Bob Clairmont and his group
- Poetry mender
- Hippolyte
- Joe Gould says, "I am introvert and extrovert"
- "Well, here we are on top of the Empire Sate-"
- When Grand Central Depot was the "end of the world"
- It happens in Grand Central
- Short cut
- Madison Avenue patchwork
- "Matches Mary"
- Broadway Rose
- Toots Shor
- Damon Runyon's ashes
- Numbers in Harlem
- Harlem occultists
- The barefoot prophet
- Harlem house-rent parties
- Market songs of Harlem
- Harlem children's rhymes and gags
- The the West Bronx
- SINS OF NEW YORK
- The Colt case
- The mystery of Mary Rogers
- Red Leary's jailbreak
- Chicago May
- Who killed Kid Dropper?
- The downfall of the "Patchen Avenue Gang"
- The mobster and the night club
- A perfect fit for Frankie Yale
- White powder and white slavery
- How magistrates studied human nature in 1844
- The "tenderloin"
- Police Commissioner Devery
- Byrnes' third degree
- Inspector Byrnes extracts an inadvertent confession
- The new cop and the streetwalkers
- AN HONEST LIVING
- Yorkville Yard singer
- Chimney sweep
- When trade was musical
- Street girl peddlers
- A New York cartman
- The stage driver makes change
- The horse-cart conductor
- The cabby's "run around"
- The honest junkman
- Dress spies
- Pawnbroker on Eighth Avenue
- Uncle Jim, the sandwich man
- The counterman and the bagel
- "A nickel a shtickel"
- "Wiseguys"
- The tipsy tipper
- Buckers
- Educating the meter
- Hackie's holiday
- The taxi driver and J. P. Morgan
- The hooker
- Blow-outs
- Chapin of the World
- PLAYTOWN AND PLAYBOYS
- Pulling or riding the goose
- Clubbing the cat
- "Saint Nick"
- New Year's calls
- Fun at Coney Island
- Hot dog day at Coney
- Where the walls have eyes
- Six-day bike races
- Charley Ebbets and his field
- Eccentric rooters
- Wilbert Robinson
- Giant fan number one
- "Wake me up when Kirby dies"
- The barker at Huber's
- Get the hook
- "This little French novelty"
- The girl in the champagne bath
- Anthony Comstock and "September morn"
- The St. Regis' prices
- Big spenders
- Arnold Rothstein and Arnold Reuben
- The origin of the Dutch treat club
- From the Algonquin archives
- The girl from Rector's Diamond Jim Brady
- Bet-a-million gates
- Out-of-towners on the town
- Sidewalk superintendents
- EIGHT MILLION STORIES
- The Fire Club plays "follow your leader"
- A fortune in Gulf Stream water
- "No violets for him"
- The murder of David Graham Phillips
- An O. Henry ending
- The wedding of Tom Thumb
- Buffalo Bill in New York
- Morgan's money bags
- Travers and the pet shop man
- He was Caruso
- "C.A.10"
- "Sweet face at the window"
- Mr. McGuire's morning
- The legend of the mausoleum musicale
- Hell's Kitchen
- The gate-crasher
- Pay as you enter
- The ogling corpse
- The man in the middle
- The pigeons on the subway train
- The wooden cat
- The pearl necklace
- Harpo Marx and the doorman
- The dead cat
- The white satin dress
- The Richardson "Spite House"
- Twenty-three skidoo
- Skyscraper contest
- An east side boy buys a suit
- Country boy on the town
- Two hundred and fifty-seven apples
- The bell-ringing fish
- The talking horse
- Casey Stengel and the sparrow
- The library lions
- Bop jokes
- "It's a wonderful town."