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Acknowledgments Nellie Perret and Ariel Pomerance inspired and supported this project of mine, as they have so many others, with patience, love, and—most importantly of all— quick wit. My knowledge of, and feeling for, New York City began in December of and over almost fifty years has been cultivated and tended by the best of urban gardeners, including: Leslie Barker (Southampton); the late Wayne Barker and Susan Burgwyn Barker (Amagansett); Elliot Bien (Scarsdale and Novato); the late Heywood Hale Broun (Woodstock); the late Craig Claiborne (East Hampton); Larry Fine (Brooklyn); Krin Gabbard (New York); Peter Geffen (Forest Hills); Peter Glassgold (New York); the late Robert Gooblar (Hamilton and Toronto); Sally Goodman and the late Paul Goodman (New York and North Stratford, N.H.); the late Hoffman and Juliet Hays (East Hampton); Dave Heath (Toronto); the late Paul Levy (Hamilton and Toronto); the late Teresa Liss (Amagansett); Judith Lowry (New York); William Luhr (Floral Park); Ron and Howard Mandelbaum (New York); Mark Crispin Miller (New York); Stephen Miller (New York and Cape May); Mordecai Newman (New York); Jonathan Panitz (Paterson); the late Claironel Foster Perret, George Albert Perret, and Gabriel Aimé Perret (Amagansett and New York); Helen Selden Rattray and the late Everett T. Rattray (Amagansett); Peter and Mercedes Ribicoff (New York); Ken Robbins (New York and Springs); Ron and Joe (Santa Ana); William Rothman (Miami); Tom Rush (New York); Murray Rutner (New York); Steven Schneider (New York and Los Angeles); the late John and Margit Slade (East Hampton and New York); J. David Slocum (New York); Theodore Solotaroff (New York); Claire Smith (Brooklyn); David Sterritt (Baltimore); Jane White and the late Alfredo Viazzi (New York); Anita Herzog Weiner and the late Eugene Weiner (Hamilton, New York, Haifa); Burton Weiss (New York). To make a book requires loving collaborators, such as my talented and committed friends at Rutgers University Press: Arlene Bacher, Christina Brianik, Marilyn Campbell, Gary Fitzgerald, Trudi Gershenov, Alison Hack, Anne Hegeman, Kenya Henderson, Adi Hovav, Donna Liese, Leslie Mitchner, Alicia Nadkarni, Eric Schramm, J’Aime Wells, and Winnie Westcott. Further, a measureless gratitude is owed my skilled and ingenuous assistants Nathan Holmes, David Kerr, and Nay Laywine for the myriad searches, inspections, verifications, and appraisals I have needed from them. I have received generous support from ix Prelims.qxd 1/12/07 12:22 PM Page ix Dr. Carla Cassidy, Dean of Arts, Ryerson University, and I have been sweetly assisted by Prof. Taylor Stoehr (Boston). To the many very, very loyal contributors whose work speaks here, a special thanks for persisting so courteously with my mania and my eccentric vision. I fondly hope that this book touches the New Yorker in all of you as much as it springs from the New Yorker I have always longed to be. Murray Pomerance Toronto October Acknowledgments x Prelims.qxd 1/12/07 12:22 PM Page x [44.210.239.12] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 10:22 GMT) CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS Prelims.qxd 1/12/07 12:22 PM Page 1 A dream, not a place. The Jets warm up off-camera for West Side Story (Robert Wise, Mirisch/Seven Arts, ). Russ Tamblyn is at the head of the line at right. Courtesy Photofest New York. Prelude.qxd 1/12/07 12:22 PM Page 2 ...