From ""Street Scene"" and ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" to ""Rosemary's Baby"", ""The Warriors"", and ""25th Hour"", this book explores the cinematic representation of New York as a city of experience, as a locus of ideographic characters and spaces, as a city of moves and traps, and as a site of allurement and danger.

Acknowledgments
Prelude: To Wake Up in the City That Never Sleeps
Memory All Alone in the Moonlight: City of Experience
There's a Place for Us: City of Characters and Spaces
Whispering Escapades Out on the D Train: City of Moves and Traps
Stayin' Alive: City of Danger and Adjustment
Works Cited and Consulted
Notes on Contributors
Index