new york (n.y.)

Shai Clark is forced to set aside his aspirations of playing professional basketball when his crime boss father is killed, but as Shai learns there is no mercy for weakness on the streets he must decide what will become of his own dreams.

Charlie is a small-time crook working his way up the ranks of the local mob. His friend Johnny Boy is a small-time gambler in debt to the loan sharks, and his family disapproves of his girlfriend due to her epilepsy.

Fifteen-year-old Camilla gains new maturity through her relationship with her best friend's brother and the growing realization that her parents are fallible individuals.

Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.

Macon Detornay, a suburban white boy obsessed with black culture, finds himself a celebrity after it is revealed he is the man robbing New York City residents, not the African-American man the city had been hunting for.

Follows the adventures of storybook and nursery rhyme characters who live side-by-side with humans.

Contains the first five issues of New York-based artist Farel Dalrymple's comic series featuring a cast of surreal characters.

Autobiography of the Reverend Al Sharpton in which he discusses his preaching, his activism on behalf of his race, and his recent resolve to quit trying to solve racial problems on a case by case basis and become proactive, entering the political arena.