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Captioned black-and-white archival photographs capture the history of the fire at the Triangle Waist Company factory on March 25, 1911 in New York City, covering immigrant labor, the fire, and the aftermath.

The author revisits the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed in 1953 after being convicted of passing atom bomb secrets to Soviet Russia, drawing from new evidence to see if the conclusion he reached in 1965 that the Rosenberg's were innocent, still holds.

Susan Wendt and her husband move into their dream apartment, a renovated brownstone with ridiculously low rent, but she begins to wonder if she is losing her mind when she awakens every morning with fresh bedbug welts, even though her husband and daughter do not suffer a single bite, and the exterminator can find no evidence of the pests.

A collection of articles originally published in "New York" magazine between 1968 and 2008, including selections from Gloria Steinem, Nora Ephron, George Plimpton, Jimmy Breslin, and many others.

Details the history of the underground music scene in New York between 1976 and 1980, and features interviews with bands and artists such as James Chance, Lydia Lunch, Mars, DNA, The Cramps, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, and others.

Discusses life in the streets in the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties as the author recounts his time searching for an identity and escape from poverty while surrounded by drugs and violent crime before finally moving to Virginia.

Flan's life is in turmoil when her older siblings decide to act like strict parents to keep her from becoming out of control like themselves, friends Judith and Meredith fight over a football player who might just have a crush on Flan, herself, and Sara-Beth tries to find her style.