Heart of the City

by Sabar, Ariel

• ISBN13: 9780738213798
• ISBN10: 0738213799
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-11
• Publisher: Da Capo Pr

Summary

The lost Filipino tourist who boards a lonely A-Train at midnight and asks a fellow passenger--a Brooklyn Web editor--the way to Chinatown. The dirt-poor sailor from Texas who buys dinner for a homeless woman in Central Park. The small-town Minnesota college girl who asks an NYPD street cop for restaurant advice. The divorcee whose search for her roots finds her on a ferry to the Statue of Liberty, seated beside a much younger man, who uncannily resembles her father.Two strangers in Manhattan. A chance encounter in public. And, eventually, a marriage.Heart of the Cityis Sabar's re-creation of nine unlikely love stories--from the 1940s to the present--that will alter the way we look at New York's best-known public spaces.Inspired by his own parents' Manhattan love story (featured inMy Father's Paradise) and the result of a dogged, far-reaching search for ordinary couples with extraordinary stories,Heart of the Cityis a paean to the physical city as matchmaker.

Author Biography

Ariel Sabar is an award-winning former staff writer for the Baltimore Sun and the Providence Journal. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and Mother Jones magazine. He lives with his family in Washington, DC.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
A Note on Method	p. xxxv
Nine Stories
Green Central Park	p. 1
Collision The Street	p. 27
Navigation Grand Central Terminal	p. 49
Freestanding Liberty Enlightening The World	p. 69
Depths The Subway	p. 89
Elevation Empire State Building	p. 111
Crossroads Times Square	p. 137
Renovations The Metropolitan Museum of Art	p. 161
Sightlines Washington Square Park	p. 183
Epilogue	p. 205
Postscripts	p. 211
Acknowledgments	p. 233
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