The way of the girl

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. A Note on the text xxi
6. Selected chronology of coney island xxiii
7. [Clam-Bake At Coney Island] 49
8. Acconey Island 54
9. To Coney Island 57
10. Coney Island 61
11. Coney Island’S Failing Days 69
12. Coney Island 77
13. Marvelous Coney Island 82
14. Human Need Of Coney Island 85
15. Boredom 90
16. The Master Showman of Coney Island 95
17. Amusing the Million 103
18. The way of the girl 109
19. Why Is Coney? 112
20. The Coney Island Excursion 116
21. Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand other Islands 123
22. Coney Island 129
23. The Greater Coney 130
24. Dreamland 137
25. In Dreams begin Responsibilities 146
26. Sunday 155
27. Ruins Help Draw 350,000 To Coney 164
28. The Tingling, Tangling Tango as ’Tis Tripped at Coney Isle 169
29. New Cosmopolis 175
30. Human Nature with the Brakes Off—Or: Why the Schoolma’Am Walked into the sea 178
31. Coney 186
32. Coney Island 191
33. Into the Night Life 207
34. Now and then 211
35. The Electric Michelangelo 217
36. Attachment to Letter to Mayor Fiorello Laguardia 224
37. To Heaven by Subway 226
38. Coney 239
39. Stranger At Coney Island 245
40. A Coney Island of the Mind 249
41. The Warriors 253
42. Coney Island in November 257
43. My son the Murderer 264
44. Mayor Blasts ta Brass on Coney Island Debacle 273
45. Kwan’S Coney Island 275
46. Coney Island 1969 285
47. Coney Island 288
48. A Coney island of the mind 293
49. City Planning Begins Public Review on Rezoning of Coney Island 299
50. Comments on the Revised Draft Scope of Analysis for Coney Island Rezoning Project 303
51. Confessions of a Coney Island Sideshow Performer 306
52. A Coney Island of the Mind 310
53. Appendix 317
54. Permissions 331
55. Foreword xiii
56. Introduction 1