Rats
A writer spends a year watching rats in one tiny downtown alley and digs up the city's history along the way.
Books set in Lower Manhattan
Wall Street, cast-iron SoHo, Chinatown and the oldest streets in New York.
5 books in Lower Manhattan
Bartleby, the Scrivener
A Wall Street clerk answers every request with 'I would prefer not to.'
A Little Life
Four college friends move to New York and build their lives around one another over three decades.
Before
In 1970s downtown New York, a beautiful young woman married to a volatile painter is desired, and endangered, by everyone around her.
Let the Great World Spin
On the morning a tightrope walker crosses between the Twin Towers, the lives of New Yorkers far below quietly intersect.