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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 526,084 ratings — published 1943
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.21 — 371,896 ratings — published 2010
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,066,844 ratings — published 1925
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,069,190 ratings — published 2013
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,971,792 ratings — published 1951
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,765 ratings — published 1974
Rules of Civility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.09 — 278,059 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.27 — 982,091 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.59 — 600,326 ratings — published 2018
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 201,452 ratings — published 1920
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.85 — 255,266 ratings — published 1958
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,281,933 ratings — published 1963
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.19 — 215,533 ratings — published 2000
Let the Great World Spin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.96 — 111,331 ratings — published 2009
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,697 ratings — published 1948
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.83 — 80,093 ratings — published 2020
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.04 — 328,555 ratings — published 2019
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.97 — 438,560 ratings — published 2005
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.93 — 88,906 ratings — published 1987
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,893 ratings — published 1998
Sweetbitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.33 — 79,802 ratings — published 2016
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.16 — 221,362 ratings — published 1967
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.75 — 166,343 ratings — published 2009
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.81 — 38,062 ratings — published 1984
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.06 — 183,392 ratings — published 1994
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.87 — 137,542 ratings — published 2018
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.98 — 108,218 ratings — published 1905
Motherless Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 43,018 ratings — published 1999
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
by (shelved 79 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,106 ratings — published 1987
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,646,895 ratings — published 2022
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,591,145 ratings — published 2020
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.70 — 254,063 ratings — published 2010
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,789 ratings — published 2004
One Last Stop (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.88 — 294,330 ratings — published 2021
In Five Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.78 — 672,218 ratings — published 2020
Harlem Shuffle (The Harlem Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.73 — 83,353 ratings — published 2021
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,798 ratings — published 2016
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.80 — 375,174 ratings — published 1991
The Colossus of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,566 ratings — published 2003
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,048 ratings — published 2016
Another Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,285 ratings — published 2016
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,659 ratings — published 1991
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.13 — 132,953 ratings — published 2013
Up in the Old Hotel (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,323 ratings — published 1992
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as nyc)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,088 ratings — published 1972
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.84 — 33,871 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,418 ratings — published 1952
The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as nyc)
avg rating 3.82 — 946,865 ratings — published 2003
“I love Israel, I go back all the time. I just love New York a little more. My workers are Arabs, my best friend is a black man from Alabama, my girlfriend's a Puerto Rican, and my landlord is a half-Jew bastard. You know what I did this morning? I read in the paper yesterday that the circus is setting up in the Madison Square Garden, they said the elephants would be walking through the Holland Tunnel at dawn. I'm a photographer a little too, you know? So I get up at five o'clock, bike over to the tunnel, and wait. It turns out the paper got it wrong, they came through the Lincoln, but still, you know? This is a hell of a place.”
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“Ms. Nomura, it's so big."
"What is?"
"The district. I'm mean, I got the park, the West Side, everything but the fancy buildings on Central Park West and Fifth Avenue."
"Well, East Harlem's interests and their interests are different."
"Don't everybody pretty much want the same things--jobs, good schools, and shit?"
"Yeah, but they don't want you in their neighborhood, much less having any say-so over their lives.”
― Tuff
"What is?"
"The district. I'm mean, I got the park, the West Side, everything but the fancy buildings on Central Park West and Fifth Avenue."
"Well, East Harlem's interests and their interests are different."
"Don't everybody pretty much want the same things--jobs, good schools, and shit?"
"Yeah, but they don't want you in their neighborhood, much less having any say-so over their lives.”
― Tuff
