ULTIMATE BK NEW YORK LISTS PA
by SUGAR,BERT RANDOLPHEdition: 00
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2009-11-17
Publisher(s): FRWHEEL
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Summary
Where can you find New York City's best hamburger? What are the ten best songs ever written about New York? The ten best books set in New York? Bert Randolph Sugar and some famous friends answer these burning questions, helping both New Yorkers and tourists learn what makes the greatest city on earth so great. With a foreword by legendary newspaperman Bill Gallo of the New York Daily News and lists from celebrity New Yorkers like Pete Hamill and Howard Stern, this is a book no lover of New York City should be without.
Author Biography
Bert Randolph Sugar and his trademark fedora have been New Yorkers for nearly fifty years, in which time he has established himself as one of the world's foremost sports historians. The former editor-in-chief of The Ring and Fight Game magazines and the author of more than 80 books, Sugar has also appeared in several feature films including Night and the City (with Robert DeNiro) and The Great White Hype (with Samuel L. Jackson). A 2005 inductee to the International Boxing Hall of Fame, he lives with his wife in Chappaqua, New York, a few blocks away from Bill and Hillary.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. x |
| New York, New York: So Good You Have to Say It Twice | p. 1 |
| History | p. 1 |
| Megalopolis | p. 1 |
| Population | p. 2 |
| Languages | p. 4 |
| Size | p. 5 |
| The Boroughs | p. 5 |
| Borough Neighborhoods | p. 9 |
| Historic Points of Interest | p. 12 |
| Buildings, Bridges, & Tunnels | p. 14 |
| Parks | p. 22 |
| Monuments | p. 26 |
| Museums | p. 28 |
| New York Fire Department | p. 30 |
| New Yorkers' Favorite Sayings | p. 32 |
| What New Yorkers Expect of Tourists | p. 32 |
| Political Animals | p. 33 |
| Watering Holes-and All That Jazz | p. 35 |
| Top New York Saloonkeepers of Yesteryear | p. 35 |
| The Leading Nightclubs, 1933-'50s | p. 38 |
| Today's Watering Holes | p. 38 |
| Ballrooms of Yesteryear | p. 39 |
| Ten Best New York Live Rock Venues-Present | p. 40 |
| Top New York Rock Venues-Past | p. 40 |
| Comedy | p. 40 |
| Beer Gardens | p. 42 |
| Ten Rules for Picking and Surviving in a New York Bar | p. 43 |
| Best Bars in New York City | p. 43 |
| Best Sports Bars | p. 43 |
| Off Track Betting and Eating | p. 45 |
| Off Track Betting Teleheaters | p. 45 |
| Strip Clubs | p. 46 |
| Cougar Haunts | p. 46 |
| Graffiti First Seen on the Walls of P. J. Clarke's Men's Room | p. 47 |
| Sports Afield-and on the Court, Ice, and Track and in the Ring | p. 48 |
| Best New York Sports Nicknames | p. 48 |
| Baseball | p. 48 |
| New York Yankees | p. 49 |
| New York Mets | p. 55 |
| New York (Baseball) Giants | p. 57 |
| Brooklyn Dodgers | p. 59 |
| Football | p. 61 |
| Basketball | p. 65 |
| Holcombe Rucker Tournament | p. 67 |
| Hockey | p. 67 |
| Horse Racing | p. 69 |
| Boxing | p. 70 |
| Golf | p. 74 |
| New York City Stadiums and Arenas | p. 74 |
| New York Street Games | p. 75 |
| We Love a Parade-and New York Is One, All Year-Round | p. 76 |
| Parades | p. 76 |
| R. H. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade | p. 79 |
| Coney Island | p. 80 |
| That's Entertainment | p. 84 |
| Movies | p. 84 |
| Broadway | p. 98 |
| Music | p. 105 |
| Television | p. 110 |
| New York City Radio Stations | p. 114 |
| New York Born & Bred | p. 117 |
| Arts | p. 117 |
| New York-Born Singers & Musicians | p. 123 |
| New York-Crossroads of the World | p. 128 |
| Tourism | p. 128 |
| Hotels | p. 130 |
| Tours & Sightseeing | p. 131 |
| Worthwhile Tourist Attractions | p. 131 |
| Shopping | p. 137 |
| Crime & Punishment | p. 138 |
| New York Police Department | p. 138 |
| Organized Crime | p. 140 |
| The Gangs of New York | p. 148 |
| Notorious Prostitutes | p. 156 |
| Tragedies | p. 157 |
| Police Corruption | p. 164 |
| Health & Hospitals: Keeping Your Sunny Side Up | p. 165 |
| Health | p. 165 |
| Taking a Bite Out of the Big Apple | p. 172 |
| Dining | p. 172 |
| Specialty Foods | p. 185 |
| Dessert | p. 189 |
| Other New York Delights | p. 190 |
| Top Vegetarian Eateries | p. 191 |
| Best After-Hours Dining | p. 191 |
| I'll Take Manhattan and the Bronx and Staten Island too ... by Bus, Subway, or Any Way I Can | p. 193 |
| Transportation | p. 193 |
| 13 | p. 200 |
| Climate | p. 200 |
| Day-by-Day Temperatures for New York | p. 201 |
| New York: Where Money Never Sleeps | p. 207 |
| Advertising | p. 209 |
| Banks | p. 211 |
| What's Black & Blue And Read All Over? New York, of Course! | p. 212 |
| Publications | p. 212 |
| Magazines | p. 213 |
| Books | p. 214 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 217 |
| Sources | p. 218 |
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