Waterfront: a journey around Manhattan

Part One: The West Side

1. The Battery

2. Battery park city

3. The World Trade Center

4. Excursus: the Harbor and the Old Port

5. Tribeca: the River Project

6. The Soho/Greenwich Village Corridor

7. Excursus: Outboard, or the Battle of Westway and its Aftermath

8. Chelsea, Chelsea Piers and Trocchi-Land

9. Excursus: Shipworms

10. From Forty-Second Street to Riverside South

11. Riverside Park and Manhattanville

12.The Sewage Treatment Plant and Salsa Party

13. Washington Heights and Inwood

Part Two: The East Side 14. Introduction: On the aesthetics of urban walking and writing

15. Captain Kidd and Pearl Street

16. Excursus: Sailors and Merchant Seamen in New York

17. The South Street Seaport and the Fulton Fish Market

18. Excursus: The Elusive Joseph Mitchell

19. The South Street Seaport, continued

20.The Brooklyn Bridge

21. Under the bridges

22. Con Edisonland: from one power plant to another

23. Excursus: Robert Moses, a Revisionist take

24.Tudor City, the United Nations and the Upper East Side

25. East Harlem and Points North

26. Excursus: Ode to the Projects

27. North Brother Island

28. Highbridge Park

29. The dilemma of Waterfront development.