Henry Carter Hull

Joey El Bueno spends his entire life trying to figure out Jane Bent, from their first meeting in New York in 1941 when Joey was just a smart-aleck kid at St. Stephen's school and Jane was a freckle-faced girl with red pigtails.

"In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, shines a light in every corner of New York City"--

Twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent, having met banker Tinker Grey while hanging out at a Greenwich Village jazz bar, finds her way into the upper echelons of New York society, and, as she makes new friends and waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her life, she begins to realize she regrets some of the choices she has made.

At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.

Detailed story of Manhattan's High Line, a park created by Joshua David and Robert Hammond on an abandoned elevated rail structure.

Laney McLeod's life changes the minute she finds herself stuck in an elevator in Manhattan. Fighting her rising panic, she relies on handsome Deke Sargeant to help her overcome her claustrophobia. When the power comes back on, Deke and Laney find themselves in a passionate embrace that leads to a night of love in his apartment. Shocked at what she has done, Laney disappears, only to have Deke show up months later. Unable to forget the chemistry between...

Tom Wingo is a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling. He flies to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. He realizes that while trying to save her, this may be his last chance to save himself as well.

The famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table. Home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect.

During a state funeral for a beloved former First Lady in New York City's largest cathedral, the unthinkable occurs. Armed men disguised as monks seize the church and seal themselves inside, along with more than one hundred of the most powerful people in America. The captives include world leaders, actors, TV stars, athletes, and politicians, and the kidnappers are armed with enough C4 explosives to blow a crater in the middle of Manhattan. NYPD officer...