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Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York
Heart of the City Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York Author:Ariel Sabar The lost Filipino tourist who boards a lonely A-Train at midnight and asks a fellow passengera Brooklyn Web editorthe way to Chinatown. The dirt-poor sailor from Texas who buys dinner for a homeless woman in Central Park. The small-town Minnesota college girl who asks an NYPD street cop for restaurant advice. The divorcée whose searc... more »h for her roots finds her on a ferry to the Statue of Liberty, seated beside a much younger man, who uncannily resembles her father. Two strangers in Manhattan. A chance encounter in public. And, eventually, a marriage.Heart of the City is Sabar?s re-creation of nine unlikely love storiesfrom the 1940s to the presentthat will alter the way we look at New York?s best-known public spaces. Inspired by his own parents? Manhattan love story (featured in My Father?s Paradise) and the result of a dogged, far-reaching search for ordinary couples with extraordinary stories, Heart of the City is a paean to the physical city as matchmaker.« less