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Foreword by Tim McLoughlin
Brooklyn Noir
Introduction by Tim McLoughlin
PART I: OLD SCHOOL BROOKLYN
Pete Hamill, “The Book Signing” (Park Slope)
Pearl Abraham, “Hasidic Noir” (Williamsburg)
Sidney Offit, “No Time for Senior’s” (Downtown)
Tim McLoughlin, “When All This Was Bay Ridge” (Sunset Park)
Ellen Miller, “Practicing” (Canarsie)
PART II: NEW SCHOOL BROOKLYN
Adam Mansbach, “Crown Heist” (Crown Heights)
Arthur Nersesian, “Hunter/Trapper” (Brooklyn Heights)
Nelson George, “New Lots Avenue” (Brownsville)
Neal Pollack, “Scavenger Hunt” (Coney Island)
Norman Kelley, “The Code” (Prospect Heights)
PART III: COPS & ROBBERS
Thomas Morrissey, “Can’t Catch Me” (Bay Ridge)
Lou Manfredo, “Case Closed” (Bensonhurst)
Luciano Guerriero, “Eating Italian” (Red Hook)
Kenji Jasper, “Thursday” (Bedford-Stuyvesant)
Robert Knightly, “One More for the Road” (Greenpoint)
PART IV: BACKWATER BROOKLYN
Maggie Estep, “Triple Harrison” (East New York)
Ken Bruen, “Fade to . . . Brooklyn” (Galway, Ireland)
Nicole Blackman, “Dumped” (Fort Greene)
C.J. Sullivan, “Slipping into Darkness” (Bushwick)
Chris Niles , “Ladies’ Man” (Brighton Beach)
Manhattan Noir
Introduction by Lawrence Block
Charles Ardai, “The Good Samaritan” (Midtown)
Carol Lea Benjamin, “The Last Supper” (Greenwich Village)
Lawrence Block, “If You Can’t Stand the Heat” (Clinton)
Thomas H. Cook, “Rain” (Battery Park)
Jeffery Deaver, “A Nice Place to Visit” (Hell’s Kitchen)
Jim Fusilli, “The Next Best Thing” (George Washington Bridge)
Robert Knightly, “Take the Man’s Pay” (Garment District)
John Lutz, “The Laundry Room” (Upper West Side)
Liz Martínez, “Freddie Prinze Is My Guardian Angel” (Washington Heights)
Maan Meyers, “The Organ Grinder” (Lower East Side)
Martin Meyers, “Why Do They Have to Hit?” (Yorkville)
S.J. Rozan, “Building” (Harlem)
Justin Scott, “The Most Beautiful Apartment in New York” (Chelsea)
C.J. Sullivan, “The Last Round” (Inwood)
Xu Xi, “Crying with Audrey Hepburn” (Times Square)
Bronx Noir
Introduction by S.J. Rozan
PART I: BRING IT ON HOME
Jerome Charyn, “White Trash” (Claremont/Concourse)
Terrence Cheng, “Gold Mountain” (Lehman College)
Joanne Dobson, “Hey, Girlie” (Sedgwick Avenue)
Rita Lakin, “The Woman Who Hated the Bronx” (Elder Avenue)
PART II: IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT
Lawrence Block, “Rude Awakening” (Riverdale)
Suzanne Chazin, “Burnout” (Jerome Avenue)
Kevin Baker, “The Cheers Like Waves” (Yankee Stadium)
Abraham Rodriguez Jr., “Jaguar” (South Bronx)
PART III: ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT
Steven Torres, “Early Fall” (Hunts Point)
S.J. Rozan, “Hothouse” (Botanical Garden)
Thomas Bentil, “Lost and Found” (Rikers Island)
Marlon James, “Look What Love Is Doing to Me” (Williamsbridge)
PART IV: THE WANDERER
Sandra Kitt, “Home Sweet Home” (City Island)
Robert J. Hughes, “A Visit to St. Nick’s” (Fordham Road)
Miles Marshall Lewis, “Numbers Up” (Baychester)
Joseph Wallace, “The Big Five” (Bronx Zoo)
Part V: All shook up
Ed Dee, “Ernie K.’s Gelding” (Van Cortlandt Park)
Patrick W. Picciarelli, “The Prince of Arthur Avenue” (Arthur Avenue)
Thomas Adcock, “You Want I Should Whack Monkey Boy?” (Courthouse)
Queens Noir
“Introduction by Robert Knightly”
PART I: QUEENS ON THE FLY: BY SEA, HORSE, TRAIN, PLANE, AND SILVER SCREEN
Maggie Estep, “Alice Fantastic” (Aqueduct Racetrack)
Denis Hamill, “Under the Throgs Neck Bridge” (Bayside)
Jill Eisenstadt, “Golden Venture” (The Rockaways)
Joseph Guglielmelli, “Buckner’s Error” (Shea Stadium)
Patricia King, “Baggage Claim” (JFK Airport)
Kim Sykes, “Arrivederci, Aldo” (Long Island City)
PART II: OLD QUEENS
Megan Abbott, “Hollywood Lanes” (Forest Hills)
Mary Byrne, “Only the Strong Survive” (Astoria)
Robert Knightly, “First Calvary” (Blissville)
Alan Gordon, “Bottom of the Sixth” (Rego Park)
Victoria Eng, “The Flower of Flushing” (Flushing)
Stephen Solomita, “Crazy Jill Saves the Slinky” (College Point)
Tori Carrington, “Last Stop, Ditmars” (Ditmars)
PART III: FOREIGN SHORES
Shailly Agnihotri, “Avoid Agony” (Jackson Heights)
K.j.a. Wishnia, “Viernes Loco” (Corona)
Glenville Lovell, “Out of Body” (South Jamaica)
Liz Martínez, “Lights Out for Frankie” (Woodside)
Jillian Abbott, “Jihad Sucks; or, The Conversion of the Jews” (Richmond Hill)
Belinda Farley, “The Investigation” (Jamaica)
Staten Island Noir
Introduction by Patricia Smith
PART I: FAMILY AFFAIR
Bill Loehfelm, “Snake Hill” (Eltingville)
Louisa Ermelino, “Sister-in-Law” (Great Kills)
Patricia Smith, “When They Are Done with Us “ (Port Richmond)
Ted Anthony, “A User’s Guide to Keeping Your Kills Fresh” (Fresh Kills)
Shay Youngblood, “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” (South Beach)
PART II: FIGHT OR FLIGHT
Michael Penncavage, “Mistakes” (The Ferry)
Bruce DeSilva, “Abating a Nuisance” (Tompkinsville)
Michael Largo, “Paying the Tab” (Four Corners)
Binnie Kirshenbaum, “Assistant Professor Lodge” (Grymes Hill)
PART III: BOROUGH OF BROKEN DREAMS
Todd Craig, “ . . . spy verse spy . . . “ (Park Hill)
Eddie Joyce, “Before It Hardens” (Annadale)
Linda Nieves-Powell, “The Fly-Ass Puerto Rican Girl from the Stapleton Projects “ (Stapleton)
Ashley Dawson, “Teenage Wasteland” (Tottenville)
S.J. Rozan, “Lighthouse” (St. George)
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