This must be the place: music, community, and vanished spaces in New York City

Introduction: New York is over (if you want it)

What we talk about when we talk about $100

All the news that's fit to sing: folk music in Greenwich Village

Friends and neighbors, that's where it's at: minimalism, loft jazz, and the invention of SoHo and Tribeca

The beginning of a new age: Max's Kansas City, glam rock, and the birth of punk

Make it last forever: the Loft and Paradise Garage

Today your love, tomorrow the world: CDGB & OMFUG

Contort yourself: no wave, mutant disco, and the arrival of hip-hop

Big Apple rotten to the core: music and conflict in Alphabet City

World clique: Danceteria and the birth of the Midtown megaclub

NYC's like a graveyard: the story of antifolk

What would the community think: Downtown music, the Lower East Side, and the cultural death of Manhattan

The three us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top: DIY in Williamsburg and beyond

Conclusion: NYC ghosts and flowers.