New Mappings of New York City

Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York ( New York, 1890).

Samuel R. Delaney , Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (New York, 1999).

Sharon Zukin , The Cultures of Cities (Cambridge, MA, 1995).

Demetra Smith Nightingale , "Overview of Welfare Reform," in Managing Welfare Reform in New York City, ed. E. S. Savas (Lanham, MD, 2005).

Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York ( New York, 1974).

In reading Berger, one is reminded of Joseph Mitchell’s unforgettable character studies of New Yorkers and their city, published first in the New Yorker and then collected in Joseph Mitchell, Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories (New York, 1992).

Colin L. Powell , My American Journey (New York, 1995).