From sinister neighbors at the Dakota to a stolen masterpiece at the Met, let Plotlines guide you to your next great read.
A photographer's stories of growing up among the artists, openings and late nights of downtown New York.
A daughter of a famed New York wine family on appetite, love and the late-'90s club scene.
An Appalachian puppeteer moves to gritty 1977 New York to work on a beloved public-TV puppet show.
A morning-show producer and the station's chef team up to break up their parents' romance, in a grown-up riff on The Parent Trap.
A young poetry obsessive lands a job at a famously secretive literary journal in early-'80s Manhattan.
A 1932 murder at Macy's just as the store gears up for its Thanksgiving parade.
A Nebraska teen inherits a historic Upper West Side brownstone and a seat at an elite prep school.
A six-year-old who lives at the Plaza Hotel, and runs it, as far as she's concerned.
Holly Golightly, a brownstone on the East Side and the most famous shop window on Fifth Avenue.
E. B. White's short, famous love letter to the city.
A fact-packed guide for young explorers: subways, parks, Broadway, city wildlife and the city's strangest sights.
Photos and stories of about 60 working cats across the five boroughs, and the families who run the corner stores they guard.
A 1932 murder at Macy's just as the store gears up for its Thanksgiving parade.
A young couple moves into a grand old building modeled on the Dakota and starts to suspect their very attentive neighbors.
It begins with a blast inside the Met, then moves between Park Avenue and an antiques shop in the Village.
An eleven-year-old runs a spy route through her neighborhood and writes down everything, until her notebook gets read.
A Wall Street 'Master of the Universe' takes one wrong turn in the Bronx, and 1980s New York closes in on him.
Holly Golightly, a brownstone on the East Side and the most famous shop window on Fifth Avenue.
Young women in 1950s Manhattan juggle typing pools, office romance and big ambitions.
Two childhood friends reconnect in Harlem, one of whom has been passing as white.
Francie Nolan comes of age in early-1900s Williamsburg, one library book at a time.
A detective with Tourette's hunts for his mentor's killer through the streets of Brooklyn.
Born with a facial difference, ten-year-old Auggie Pullman starts fifth grade at a real school for the first time.
It begins with a blast inside the Met, then moves between Park Avenue and an antiques shop in the Village.
A young Irish immigrant builds a new life, and finds love, in 1950s Brooklyn.
How Danny Meyer turned Union Square Cafe into a New York institution, and what it taught him about hospitality.
Four college friends move to New York and build their lives around one another over three decades.
Born with a facial difference, ten-year-old Auggie Pullman starts fifth grade at a real school for the first time.
A chef's no-holds-barred tour of what really happens behind the kitchen door.
How a chef with no formal training ended up running one of the East Village's most beloved restaurants.
From Ethiopia to Sweden to the top of New York's kitchens, and finally home to Harlem.
The New York Times restaurant critic puts on wigs and new identities to see how restaurants treat everyone else.
Fired, divorced and broke in his sixties, a former ad executive takes a job at an Upper West Side Starbucks and finds a new life.
The Mets as New York's people's team, from their 1962 start through the Miracle of '69 and beyond, told as a story of the city.
A young poetry obsessive lands a job at a famously secretive literary journal in early-'80s Manhattan.
E. B. White's short, famous love letter to the city.
Writers on loving and leaving New York, named after Joan Didion's classic essay.
True stories of love, loss and dating from the New York Times “Modern Love” column, many of them set in New York.
An anthropologist joins New York's Sanitation Department, drives the trucks herself, and digs into 400 years of the city's trash.
A fact-packed guide for young explorers: subways, parks, Broadway, city wildlife and the city's strangest sights.
Photos and stories of about 60 working cats across the five boroughs, and the families who run the corner stores they guard.
A photographer's stories of growing up among the artists, openings and late nights of downtown New York.
A daughter of a famed New York wine family on appetite, love and the late-'90s club scene.
An Appalachian puppeteer moves to gritty 1977 New York to work on a beloved public-TV puppet show.
A morning-show producer and the station's chef team up to break up their parents' romance, in a grown-up riff on The Parent Trap.
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