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Aaron, Abe

Abbott, Jack Henry

Abraham & Straus

Adams Street

Adelphi Street

Advertisements for Myself (Mailer)

Advocate literary magazine

“Again” (Crane)

AIDS

Alexandria Quartet, The (Durrell)

Alfred Kazin (Cook)

Ali, Muhammad

Aller Retour New York (Miller)

All the King’s Men (Warren)

All the Sad Young Literary Men (Gessen)

“Almos’ a Man” (Wright)

Amboy Dukes, The (Shulman)

American Dream, An (Mailer)

American Tragedy, An (Dreiser)

American Woman (Choi)

Ames, Jonathan

Amussen, Ted

Anderson, Kurt

Anderson, Margaret

Anderson, Sherwood

Apex Hides the Hurt (Whitehead)

Appel, Ben

Apprentices’ Library

Armando’s restaurant

Armies of the Night, The (Mailer)

Armstrong, Louis

Ashbery, John

“As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life” (Whitman)

Asimov, Isaac

Assistant, The (Malamud)

Aswell, Edward

Atlantic Avenue

Atlantic Basin Terminal

Atlantic Monthly

Auden, W. H.

Auster, Paul

Avenue J

Avenue M

Badu, Erykah

Baker, George

Baldwin, James

Ballad of the Sad Café, The (McCullers)

Bankers Trust

Bank of Manhattan Trust

Baraka, Amiri

Barbary Shore (Mailer)

Barton, Emily

Battle of Brooklyn

Bay Ridge

Beautiful and the Damned, The (Fitzgerald)

Beckett, Samuel

Bedford Avenue

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Beecher, Henry Ward

Bell, Daniel

Bellow, Saul

Belmont Avenue

Bensonhurst

Bernstein, Aline

Bernstein, Leonard

Bishop, Elizabeth

Bishop, John Peale

Black Boy (Wright)

black out (1977)

Black Power (Wright)

blacks

creative renaissance and

gentrification and

Great Migration and

redlining and

Black Spring (Miller)

Bloom, Harold

Bloomberg, Michael

Blue in the Face (film)

“Blueprint for Negro Writing” (Wright)

Bodenheim, Maxwell

Boerum Hill

Book of Friends (Miller)

Borough Hall

Borough Park

Bowles, Jane Auer

Bowles, Paul

Boyd, James

Bradford, Larned

Bradley, David

Brando, Marlon

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Capote)

Breslin, Jimmy

Bridge, The (Crane)

Brighton Beach

Brinnin, John Malcolm

Britten, Benjamin

Broadway Theater

Broken Tower (Mariani)

Brookland (Barton)

Brooklyn. See also specific landmarks, neighborhoods, streets, writers, and works

appeal of

black migration and

black renaissance in

bohemians migrate to

Brooklyn Bridge and

as creative capital

crime and racial tensions in

demolitions in

Depression and

Depression and postwar in, and Moore

early twentieth-century immigrants in

Jewish middle class in

Jewish writers escape from

literary map of

nineteenth century, and Whitman

postwar chill in, and Arthur Miller

postwar decline in

postwar hipsters in

postwar immigrants in

recent renaissance of

twenties boom in

urban crisis in

white flight from

Brooklyn (Tóibín)

Brooklyn Academy of Music

“Brooklynania” (Whitman)

Brooklyn Army Terminal

Brooklyn Book Festival

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Brooklyn Daily Times

Brooklyn Dodgers

“Brooklyn for Britain Week”

Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Historical Society

Brooklyn Hospital

Brooklyn House of Detention

Brooklyn Inn

Brooklyn Institute for Arts and Sciences

“Brooklyn Is My Neighbourhood” (McCullers)

Brooklyn Moon Café

Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn Paramount

Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Brooklyn Urban League

Brother, I’m Dying (Danticat)

Brown, Claude

brownstones

Brownsville

Broyard, Anatole

Bryher

Burke, Kenneth

Burr, Aaron

Burroughs, William S.

Burrows, Edwin G.

Bush Terminal

Bushwick

Cadman Plaza

“Calculus at Heaven, A” (Mailer)

Call It Sleep (Roth)

“Camperdown Elm, The” (Moore)

Capone, Al

Capote, Truman

Capote (Clarke)

Carlton Avenue

Carlton Place

Carney, Eddie

Caro, Robert

Carr, Virginia Spencer

Carroll Gardens

Carson, Johnny

“Carson” (Muldoon)

Caton Park

Census Bureau

Century

Chamberlain, John

Chaplin, Charlie

Chisholm, Shirley

Choi, Susan

Chouteau, Pauline

Church Avenue

City College of New York

City Kid (George)

City of Glass (Auster)

Civil War

Clarke, Gerald

Classon Avenue

Clifton Place

Clinton Avenue

Clinton Hill

Clipped Wings (Miller)

Cobble Hill

Collected Poems (Moore)

Collected Stories (Bowles)

Collected Works (Bowles)

Color Curtain, The (Wright)

Colossus of New York, The (Whitehead)

Columbia Heights

Columbia Street

Columbia University

Communism

Concord Street

Coney Island

Confessions of Nat Turner (Styron)

Connolly, Cyril

Connolly, Harold X.

Cook, Richard

Copland, Aaron

Cosell, Howard

“Cost of Living, The” (Malamud)

Court Street

Covenant with Color, A (Wilder)

Cowley, Malcolm

Cowley, Peggy

Cranberry Street

Crane, C. A.

Crane, Grace

Crane, Hart

Crane, Stephen

Crazy Cock (Miller)

Creeley, Robert

crime

“Crime on the Waterfront” (Johnson)

“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (Whitman)

Crowley, Maureen

Crown Heights

Crown Street

Culver elevated line

Cumberland Street

Dahlberg, Edward

Daily Worker

Daley, Richard J.

Dalí, Salvador

Danticat, Edwidge

Davis, George

Davis, L. J.

Davis, Lydia

Davis, Philip

Davis, Thulani

Dawson, Fielding

Dean Street

Dearborn, Mary V.

Death and Life of Great American Cities, The (Jacobs)

Death of a Salesman (Miller)

Debs, Eugene V.

Decatur Street

Deer Park, The (Mailer)

Dekalb Avenue

de Lima, Agnes

Democracy Vistas (Whitman)

Depression

Desperate Characters (Fox)

Devlin, Charlie

Devoe Street

Dew Breaker, The (Danticat)

Dewey, John

Dewey, Melvil

Dial

Dick Cavett Show, The

Dickey, James

Didion, Joan

Dissent

Diviners, The (Moody)

Dodge, Mabel

Donald, David Herbert

Dos Passos, John

Do the Right Thing (film)

downtown Brooklyn

draft riots (1863)

Dreiser, Theodore

Driggs Avenue

Drinking Life, A (Hamill)

drugs

Dubin’s Lives (Malamud)

Dubliners (Joyce)

DuBois, W. E. B.

Dumbo

Dunphy, Jack

Durrell, Lawrence

Eastern Parkway

East New York

East River

East Third Street

Ebbets Field

Egan, Jennifer

Egoist

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

elevated trains

Eliot, T. S.

Ellington, Edward Kennedy “Duke”

Ellis Island

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Empire State Building

Englander, Nathan

Erie Basin

Esquire

“Evaluations” (Mailer)

Evans, Walker

Everything Is Illuminated (Foer)

Executioner’s Song, The (Mailer)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Foer)

Fadiman, Clifton

Farbar, Bernard “Buzz”

Farragut Houses

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrell, James T.

Faulkner, William

February House (7 Middagh Street)

February House (Tippins)

Federal Writers Project

Ferguson, Robert

ferries

Fifth Avenue

Fight, The (Mailer)

Fillmore Place

“Fire and Cloud” (Wright)

“First Seven Years, The” (Malamud)

Fisher, Clive

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Fishman, Boris

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Fixer, The (Malamud)

Flatbush

Flatbush Avenue

Fleet Street

Flushing Avenue

Foer, Jonathan Safran

Ford, Gerald

Foreign Student, The (Choi)

Foreman, George

Fort Greene

Fort Greene Park

Fort Greene U.S.A. (Habenstreit)

“For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen” (Crane)

Fortress of Solitude, The (Lethem)

Fortunate Age, A (Rakoff)

Forward

Fourth Avenue

Fox, Paula

Fox theater

Frank, Waldo

Franzen, Jonathan

Freiheit (newspaper)

Freud, Sigmund

“Frigate Pelican, The” (Moore)

Front Street

Fuchs, Daniel

Fulton Ferry

Fulton Ferry Landing

Fulton Street

Gaffney, Elizabeth

Gage & Tollner restaurant

Galchen, Rivka

Gallant, Mavis

gangs

Gates Avenue

Genius and Lust (Mailer and Miller)

gentrification

George, Nelson

German immigrants

Gershwin, George

Gessen, Keith

Ghetto Grows in Brooklyn, A (Connolly)

Ghosts (Auster)

Gift, The (Hamill)

Gilmore, Gary

Girodias, Maurice

Giroux, Robert

Giuliani, Rudolph

Gladwell, Malcolm

Glazer, Nathan

Gold, Michael

Goodwin, Dick

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Gotham (Burrows and Wallace)

Gowanus Canal

Grace Court

Graham, Kay

Grand Army Plaza

Grand Avenue

Grand Street

Gravesend Avenue (later McDonald Avenue)

Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald)

Great House (Krauss)

Great Migration

Green Light Bookstore

Greenpoint

Greenwich Village

Green-Wood Cemetery

Group, The (McCarthy)

G-String Murders, The (Lee)

Guys and Dolls (musical)

Habenstreit, Barbara

Hall, Donald

Hamill, Pete

Hamilton, Alexander

Hancock Street

Hand to Mouth (Auster)

Happiest Man Alive, The (Dearborn)

Harlem

“Harlem” (Hughes)

Harlem Renaissance

Harper’s Bazaar

Harrington, Michael

Hassidic Jews

Havemeyer Street

Haydn, Hiram

Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (McCullers)

Hecht, Ben

Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Hemingway, Ernest

Henry, O.

Henry & June (film)

Henry Miller (Ferguson)

Henry Street

Hepburn, Audrey

Hicks, Elias

Hicks, Granville

Hills Beyond, The (Wolfe)

History of Love, The (Krauss)

Hitler, Adolf

Hofstadter, Richard

Holocaust in American Life, The (Novick)

Homage to Blenholt (Fuchs)

Home Owners’ Loan Corporation

Hook, Sidney

“Hook, The” (Miller)

Hotel Bossert

Hotel St. George

House in Bali, A (McPhee)

“House on the Heights, A” (Capote)

Howe, Irving

How the Other Half Lives (Riis)

Hughes, Langston

Hustvedt, Siri

Hutchinson, Percy

Ice Storm, The (Moody)

In Cold Blood (Capote)

Indian Americans

“In Distrust of Merits” (Moore)

“Inside the Whale” (Orwell)

Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)

In the Street (documentary)

Intuitionist, The (Whitehead)

Invention of Solitude, The (Auster)

Invisible Circus, The (Egan)

“Invisible Poor, The” (Macdonald)

Irish Americans

Isherwood, Christopher

“I Sing the Body Electric” (Whitman)

Italian Americans

“I Write in Brooklyn” (Whitehead)

Jackson, Kenneth

Jacobs, Jane

James, Henry

Jay Street

“Jerboa, The” (Moore)

Jewish Hospital

Jewish Morning Journal

Jews

Jews Without Money (Gold)

Jim Crow South

John Henry Days (Whitehead)

John Reed Club

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Johnson, Malcolm

Johnson Street

Jones, James

Jones, Lisa

Joyce, James

Kahane, Jack

Kallman, Chester

Kaplan, Justin

Kazan, Elia

Kazin, Alfred

Kazin, Charles

Kazin, Gita

Kazin, Pearl

Keep, The (Egan)

Kennedy, John F.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Kennedy, William Sloane

Kenyon Review

Kerouac, Jack

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kingsley, William

Kirsch, Adam

Kirstein, Lincoln

Knapp’s shop

Kobler, John

Koch, Ed

Krauss, Nicole

Kreymborg, Alfred

Kristol, Irving

“Kronski, Jean”

Krystal, Arthur

Lachaise, Gaston

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence)

Lahiri, Jhumpa

Landmarks Preservation Commission

landsmanschaften (immigrant associations)

Lankevich, George

Lansky, Meyer

Lantern

Last Exit to Brooklyn (Selby)

Lawrence, D. H.

Lazarus, Emma

Leaves of Grass (Whitman)

Lee, Gypsy Rose

Lee, Spike

Lee, Wen Ho

Lefferts Place

left, the

Lemann, Nicholas

Lenya, Lotte

Leonard, John

Lerman, Leo

Lethem, Jonathan

Letters to My Father (Styron)

Levitt, Helen

Lewis, Sinclair

Liberty Street

Lie Down in Darkness (Styron)

Life

Lincoln, Abraham

Lindsay, John

Little Review

Liveright, Horace

Livonia Avenue

Locked Room, The (Auster)

Loeser’s department store

Loew’s Kings Theater

Long Dream, The (Wright)

Longhi, Vincent

Long Island

Long Island Historical Society

Long Island Patriot

Long Island Railroad

Look at Me (Egan)

Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe)

Look Homeward, Angel: A Life of Thomas Wolfe (Donald)

Love Lane

Loveman, Sam

Loving, Jerome

Low Company (Fuchs)

Lowell, Amy

Lowell, James Russell

Lower East Side (Manhattan)

Lower Manhattan Expressway (proposed)

Luciano, Charles “Lucky”

MacArthur Fellowship

Macdonald, Dwight

Macy’s (Fulton Street)

Mademoiselle

Maggie (Crane)

“Magic Barrel, The” (Malamud)

Magic Barrel, The (Malamud)

Mailer, Adele Morales

Mailer, Barney

Mailer, Bea Silverman

Mailer, Fanny

Mailer, Jeanne Campbell

Mailer, Norman

Mailer, Norris Church

Mailer (Dearborn)

Mailer: His Life and Times (Manso)

Making It (Podhoretz)

Malamud, Bernard

Malamud, Eugene

Malamud, Max

Malaquais, Jean

Malcolm X

Manchild in the Promised Land (Brown)

Man Gone Down (Thomas)

Manhattan

Manhattan Bridge

Manhattan Transfer (Dos Passos)

Mann, Erika

Mann, Golo

Mann, Klaus

Mann, Thomas

Manso, Peter

Manson, Charles

manufacturing

Marcy Avenue

Mariani, Paul

Marianne Moore: A Literary Life (Molesworth)

Marianne Moore: The Cage and the Animal (Hall)

Markowitz, Marty

Marsalis, Branford

Marsalis, Wynton

Martin’s department store

Masters, Edgar Lee

McCarthy, Mary

McClure’s

McCullers, Carson

McDonald Avenue. See Gravesend Avenue

McGrath, Ben

McLoughlin, Tim

McPhee, Colin

Meaningful Life, A (Davis)

Mehta, Suketu

Meidman, Dhimah

Melody Bar

Melta, Alfie

Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers)

Mencken, H. L.

Mercantile Library

Merchant Marines

Merrin, Jeredith

Metropolis (Gaffney)

Middagh Street

middle class

Middle Eastern immigrants

Midnight Rose’s candy store

Milk Station

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Miller, Arthur

Miller, Barbara

Miller, Beatrice Wickens

Miller, Henry

Miller, Henry, Sr.

Miller, June Smith

Miller, Louise

Miller, Mary Slattery

Millett, Kate

Mills, Hilary

“Miriam” (Capote)

Molesworth, Charles

Moloch (Miller)

Monroe, Harriet

Montague Street

Montague Terrace

Moody, Rick

Moore, Marianne

Moore, Mary Warner

Moore, Warner

Moses, Robert

Motherless Brooklyn (Lethem)

Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway)

Muldoon, Paul

Mulligan Stew (Sorrentino)

Municipal Bank

Munro, Alice

Munson, Gorham

Murder, Inc.

My Fair Lady (musical)

My Father Is a Book (Smith)

Myrtle Avenue

n + 1 (magazine)

Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer)

Namesake, The (Lahiri)

Nation

Native Son (Wright)

Natural, The (Malamud)

Nazi Germany

Neon

“New Colussus, The” (Lazarus)

New Lots

New Masses

New Republic

New Review

Newton, Herbert

Newton, Jane

New York City

consolidation of

population of, in 1940s

recent revival of

twenties boom in

urban crisis and

New York City Board of Aldermen

New York City Board of Education

New York City Board of Health

New York City Parks Department

New York City (Lankevich)

New York Daily News

New Yorker

New York Herald

New York Herald-Tribune

New York Jew (Kazin)

New York magazine

“New York” (Moore)

New York Police Department

New York Public Library

New York Review of Books

New York Society for the Suppression of Vice

New York State Assembly

New York Sun

New York Times

Book Review

New York Tribune

New York Trilogy, The (Auster)

New York World

New York Yankees

Nexus (Miller)

Nin, Anaïs

Ninth Street

North First Street

north side gang

Novick, Peter

“O Captain! My Captain!” (Whitman)

Ocean Parkway

Odets, Clifford

Of Time and the River (Wolfe)

Oklahoma! (musical)

Old Fulton Street

Old Stone House

Olmsted, Fredrick Law

O’Malley, Walter

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

O’Neill, Eugene

“Only the Dead Know Brooklyn” (Wolfe)

On Native Grounds (Kazin)

On the Town (musical)

On the Waterfront (film)

Opening of a Door, The (Davis)

Opffer, Emil, Jr.

Opffer, Emil, Sr.

Oppenheim & Collins store

Oppenheimer, Joel

Oracle Night (Auster)

Orange Street

organized crime

Orringer, Julie

Orthodox Jews

Orwell, George

Other America, The (Harrington)

Others magazine

Other Voices, Other Rooms (Capote)

“Our Brooklyn Boys in the War” (Whitman)

“Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” (Whitman)

Outsider, The (Wright)

Pagan magazine

“Pangolin, The” (Moore)

Parade Grounds

Paris Review

Park Slope

Partisan Review

Paul Bowles (Carr)

Pears, Peter

Peck, Dale

Perez, Rosie

Perkins, Maxwell

Perl, Jed

Person of Interest, A (Choi)

Phillips, Arthur

Pierrepont Street

Pineapple Street

Pitkin Avenue

“Place Is Different Now, The” (Malamud)

Plexus (Miller)

Plimpton, George

“Plumet Basilisk, The” (Moore)

Plymouth Church

Podhoretz, Norman

“Poetry” (Moore)

Poetry magazine

police

Portland Avenue

Pound, Ezra

poverty. See also Depression

Power Broker, The (Caro)

Pratt, Charles

Pratt Institute

Presley, Elvis

Priestly, J. B.

Prince Street

Prison Ship Martyrs’ Monument

Promised Land, The (Lemann)

Prospect Park

Zoo

Prospect Park South

Prospect Park West (Sohn)

public housing

public schools

Abraham Lincoln High

Boys and Girls High

Boys’ High

District School No. 1

Eastern District High

Erasmus Hall High

Franklin K. Lane High

Girls’ Commercial High

Peter Stuyvesant High

P.S. 7

P.S. 107

P.S. 161

P.S. 178

P.S. 181

Puerto Ricans

Pulitzer, Joseph

Purple America (Moody)

race and racism

race riots

Rahv, Philip

Raisbeck, Kenneth

Rakoff, Joanna Smith

Raymond V. Ingersoll Houses

real estate industry

redlining

restrictive covenants

Real Estate Record and Guide

Redford, Robert

Red Hook

Red Hook Houses

Reid, Vernon

Remsen Street

Requiem for a Dream (Selby)

Revere Place

Revolutionary War

Reynolds, David

Richard Wright (Rowley)

Riis, Jacob

RKO Albee

Robbins, Jerome

Roberts, Margaret

Robinson, Jackie

Rock, Chris

Roebling, Emily

Roebling, John Augustus

Roebling, Washington

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rosset, Barney

Rosten, Norman

Rosy Crucifixion, The (Miller)

Roth, Henry

Roth, Philip

Rowley, Hazel

Royal diner

Rux, Carl Hancock

Ryerson Street

Sag Harbor (Whitehead)

Saintsbury, George

Samuel J. Tilden Houses

Sands Street

Saratoga Avenue

Saturday Review

Savage Holiday (Wright)

Schroth, Frank D.

Scully, Vincent

Sears store

“Second Coming, The” (Yeats)

Second Place

Selby, Hubert, Jr.

Selected Poems (Moore)

Senna, Danzy

Seventeenth Street

Seventh Avenue

Seward, Cora

Sexus (Miller)

Shawn, William

Sheltering Sky, The (Bowles)

She’s Gotta Have It (film)

Shulman, Irving

Siegel, Bugsy

Simpson, Lorna

Sister Carrie (Dreiser)

Sixth Avenue

Sixty-ninth Street

slavery

Smart Set

Smith, Betty

Smith, Janna Malamud

Smith, Oliver

Smith, Perry

Smith Street

Smoke (film)

Snipes, Wesley

Socialist Party

Sohn, Amy

“Song of Myself” (Whitman)

Son of Sam (David Berkowitz)

Sophie’s Choice (Styron)

Sorrentino, Gilbert

Sound and The Fury, The (Faulkner)

Sound of Music, The (musical)

South Brooklyn

South Brooklyn Boys

South Third Street

Soviet Union (Russia)

Specimen Days (Whitman)

Starbucks

Star Burlesque

Starting Out in the Thirties (Kazin)

Steelwork (Sorrentino)

Steinbeck, John

Steinem, Gloria

Steloff, Frances

Stevens, Wallace

Stieglitz, Alfred

Story magazine

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Strauss, Darin

Stravinksy, Igor

Studs Lonigan (Farrell)

Styron, Alexandra

Styron, William

subways

Summer in Williamsburg (Fuchs)

Sunset Park

Sunset Park (Auster)

Sutter Avenue

Swados, Felice

Swinnerton, Frank

Syrian immigrants

“Take Pity” (Malamud)

Tanenhaus, Sam

Tate, Allen

Thayer, Scofield

Third Street

This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald)

Thomas, Michael

Thomas Wolfe (Turnbull)

Thoreau, Henry David

Thorpe, Jim

Tigers gang

Tillary Street

Time

Tinti, Hannah

Tippins, Sherill

“To Brooklyn Bridge” (Crane)

Tóibín, Colm

Tonight Show

Tony’s Square Bar

Tores, José

Transit to Narcissus, A (Mailer)

Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (Smith)

Triangle Shirtwaist fire

Trilling, Lionel

Tropic of Cancer (Miller)

Tropic of Capricorn (Miller)

Trotsky, Leon

Turnbull, Andrew

Twelfth Street

Two Serious Ladies (Bowles)

Unaccustomed Earth (Lahiri)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)

Uncle Tom’s Children (Wright)

unemployment

U.S. Congress

House Un-American Activities Committee

Unterecker, John

Untermeyer, Louis

U.S.A. (Dos Passos)

Van Anden, Isaac

Van Doren, Carl

Van Vechten, Carl

Vaux, Calvert

Veblen, Thorstein

Verandah Place

Vidal, Gore

Vietnam War

View from the Bridge, A (Miller)

Village Voice

Visit from the Goon Squad, A (Egan)

Vogue

Voyager (Unterecker)

“Voyages” (Crane)

Waiting for Godot (Beckett)

Walker, Jimmy

Walker in the City, A (Kazin)

“Wallabout Martyrs” (Whitman)

Wallace, Christopher (Biggie Smalls, the Notorious B.I.G.)

Wallace, Mike

Walpole, Hugh

Walt Whitman (Loving)

Walt Whitman Houses

Ward, Nathan

Warren, Robert Penn

Washington, George

Washington Cemetery

Washington Park

Washington Post

Waste Land, The (Eliot)

waterfront

Water Street

Watson, James Sibley

Waverley Avenue

Web and the Rock, The (Wolfe)

Webb, Constance

Weill, Kurt

Weinstock, Herbert

Weld, Ralph Foster

West, James L. W., III

Westbury Court

West Side Story (musical)

When Brooklyn Was the World (Willensky)

When Kafka Was the Rage (Broyard)

“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (Whitman)

When We Were Kings (documentary)

White, E. B.

White Buildings (Crane)

Whitehead, Colson

White Man, Listen! (Wright)

“White Negro, The” (Mailer)

whites. See also specific ethnic groups

immigrate to suburbs

return migration of

Whitman, George

Whitman, Walt

Why Are We in Vietnam? (Mailer)

Wilder, Craig Steven

Wilder, Thornton

Willensky, Elliot

Williams, Saul

Williams, William Carlos

Williamsburg

Williamsburg Bridge

William Styron (West)

Willoughby Avenue

Willow Street

Wilson, Edmund

Wolfe, Thomas

working class

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

World of Our Fathers (Howe)

World Series

(1955)

(1956)

(1977)

World War I

World War II

WPA Guide to New York City, The

Wright, Dhimah Meidman

Wright, Ellen Poplowitz

Wright, Julia

Wright, Richard

Wyckoff Street

Wythe Avenue

“Year of Meteors” (Whitman)

Yeats, W. B.

You Can’t Go Home Again (Wolfe)

Zukin, Sharon