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To the City, with Love by [Steve Slavin]

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This is a book filled entirely with stories about New Yorkers – some real, some imagined – who have passed through the author’s life. Among them are:
A professional basketball player who decides to play his last game stark naked.
A moral philosopher who must resolve his own moral dilemma.
Two homeless veterans living in a subway tunnel, who get hit by a train – and live to tell about it.
A young man on a crowded subway train, who believes a beautiful young woman keeps looking at him.
A kindergarten class that sets out on an adventure to raise money for the homeless.
A young woman who took the hands off the clock in Grand Central Station.
Professors who formulated brilliant strategies to avoid teaching.
How an old high school classmate helped Bernie Sanders become president.
Some stories will make you laugh, some might make you teary-eyed, but they will all entertain and give the reader a unique flavor and insight into growing up a New Yorker.

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November 16, 2016
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Steve Slavin has a PhD in economics from New York University, and taught economics for 31 years at New York Institute of Technology, Brooklyn College, and New Jersey's Union County College. He has written 16 math and economics books. These include a widely used college textbook now in its eleventh edition, and the bestselling All the Math You'll Ever Need. His short stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01MYNTSRH
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 16, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1086 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 307 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1625530978

Best Sellers Rank: #1,731,150 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #23,541 in Single Authors Short Stories
- #39,520 in Short Stories (Books)

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LDeVore

Short Stories about NY

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 31, 2022

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After reading Volume four, I purchased Volumes 1, 2 and 3. Great New York and Brooklyn stories.
I am a big fan of New York. Loved these stories! Lots of laughs, too.
A fun and easy read!!!

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Ted Krever

REAL STORIES ABOUT REAL NEW YORK !!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 22, 2021

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You're going to see this review on the other TO THE CITY WITH LOVE books - purchased all three - what a remarkable series!!!! Slavin documents the moments where history happens and the city changes. He reveals the NY that so many have attempted to capture in movies, documentaries, TV shows, books.... Yet the way he spins his wonderful stories it is as if you are suddenly walking through the city streets like you were born here. No holds barred - TO THE CITY WITH LOVE is the REAL New York City.

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Fred Harber

Excellent collection of short stories!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 7, 2017

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This is one of the finest collections of short stories that I have ever read! Some of them have the unexpected endings such as those of O Henry. Others have dialogues that reach logical conclusions such as Plato's Republic. Some made me laugh, another literally made me cry.

Try it! You'll like it!

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Judy May

Love letter to Brooklyn

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2017

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Steve Slavin has been having a love affair with Brooklyn all his life. His stories, memories, and musings, about a lifetime spent in its neighborhoods are delightful to read. Clearly his family and friends provided much of the flavor of the city as well as its color. A collection to savor!

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David Grant Urban

Delightful book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2018

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Funny, poignant, and sometimes sad stories all based on the author's experiences growing up and living in New York. Great book for the bed stand, reading one story each night.

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Melanie Shapiro

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2017

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I really enjoyed this larger collection of short stories. The book was well written and highly entertaining. Great read.

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Kindle Customer

Quirky, Entertaining, Big-Hearted Brooklyn Stories!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 17, 2022

This collection of stories is heart-warming and hilarious-- filled with quirky characters and situations. The stories are mainly set in Brooklyn, and you can feel the heartbeat of the borough in them. The author clearly has a real love for the absurdity and the wonder that is NYC!

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Jacqueline Seewald

A Remarkable Collection of Short Fiction

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 8, 2016

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As a short story writer as well as a novelist, I enjoy reading short story collections. Steve Slavin’s collected literary stories which appear in this new volume speak volumes about the city of New York, past and present.

Usually volumes of short stories are slim books, not so here. This is a large collection of stories with many themes and teeming with individuals who represent the character of a unique city. It is beyond the scope of this review to discuss every story included in this collection. However, I will talk about several of them.

The book is broken into six separate sections with six separate themes. The very first story in the first section is entitled “The Prince of Sixth Avenue.” I have the impression that this is a faction story--that is a combination of actual fact and fiction. Steve Slavin as a grad student at NYU in the early 1960’s lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The characters he describes reflect the nature of the city. The setting itself is a major character and also well-described.

“Schwartz” is the second short story in the collection and humorously centers on the character of Schwartz, an eccentric artist/postal worker. In fact, many of the stories center on particular quirky characters. The Zaydeh (grandfather) stands out in the touching story “The Tenants’ Patrol.” The female characters are just as unique. In “Being Bonnie,” the reader is introduced to a young woman who is free and easy with her affections and flits from man to man. The singles scene is often presented in a way that would do justice to a Seinfeld episode. Slavin’s sense of humor is sharp, his intellect keen and observant. Sometimes there is a cynical edge to the stories, other times they drip sarcasm, but they are always clever and entertaining. Even the titles of the sections are intriguing.

I cannot do justice to this book in a brief commentary except to say that it is well-worth the price and then some. You will read it and then read it again. There is much here to contemplate.

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