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25 OF THE MOST FAMOUS CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY JUVENILE AND YOUNG ADULT BOOKS SET IN NEW YORK CITY (and the areas mentioned) Plus, 1O CELEBRATED CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS SET IN NEW YORK CITY 
LISTED BY YEAR OF PUBLICATION The Diviners (1926) Libba Bray (Chinatown) CHINATOWN Tar Beach (1939) Faith Ringgold (Harlem rooftop) HARLEM Stuart Little (1945) E.B. White (Central Park Model Boat Pond) CENTRAL PARK All-of-a-Kind Family (1951) Sydney Taylor (Lower East Side tenements) LOWER EAST SIDE The Cricket in Times Square (1960) George Seiden (Newsstand in a Times Sq. subway station; Nedick's lunch counter; Chinatown; Washington Sq. Park) MIDTOWN It's Like This Cat (1963) Emily Cheny Neville (Coney Island, Fulton Fish Market, Bronx Zoo) BROOKLYN The Genie of Sutton Place (1973) George Selden (Sutton Place) UPPER EAST SIDE Harriet the Spy (1964) Louise Fitzhugh (Her house is near Carl Schultz Park on East 87th Street. Also Lexington Candy Shop) UPPER EAST SIDE The Pushcart War (1964) Jean Merril (based on author's experience growing up in Greenwich Village) GREENWICH VILLAGE The Jazz Man (1966) Mary Hays Weik (Harlem) HARLEM From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967) E. L. Konigsburg (The Met, Grand Central, NYPL, Donnell Library, The UN) UPPER EAST SIDE The Young Unicorns (1968) Madeline L'Engle (Cathedral Of St. John the Divine) UPPER WEST SIDE The Pigman and Me (1991) Paul Zindel (Staten Island) STATEN ISLAND Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972) Judy Blume (25 West 68th Street, her apt.; Huckster Playground,Bloomingdale's) UPPER WEST SIDE The Princess Diaries (2000) Meg Cabot (Greenwich Village, Plaza Hotel) GREENWICH VILLAGE Gossip Girl (2002) Cecily von Ziegesar (Nightingale-Bamford School (based on), Central Park) UPPER EAST SIDE City of Bones (2005) Cassandra Clare (Brooklyn) BROOKLYN Percy Jackson & the Olympians: #1 - The Lightning Thief) by (2005) Rick Riordan (Metropolitan Museum of Art) UPPER EAST The Night Tourist (2008) Katherine Marsh (Grand Central Whisper Gallery; White Horse Tavern; Bethesda Fountain; Chumley's, 79th St. Boat Basin, NYPL) MIDTOWN When You Reach Me (2009) Rebecca Stead (Upper West Side) UPPER WEST SIDE Dash & Lilly's Books of Dares (2010) Rachael Cohn and David Levithan (The Strand, Max Brenner's, Dyker Heights, FAO Schwartz) GREENWICH VILLAGE Time Riders (2010) Alex Scarrow (Williamsburg Bridge) LOWER EAST SIDE Better Nate Than Ever (2013) Tim Federle (Times Sq.;Port Authority; Madison Sq. Garden) TIMES SQUARE Under The Egg (2014) Laura Marx Fitzgerald (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) UPPER EAST At Your Service (2014) Jen Malone (fictional Hotel St. Michele; Serendipity 3, Roosevelt Island Tram, FAO Schwartz, Apple Store, many other places) MIDTOWN Shadowshaper (2015) Daniel Jose Older (Brooklyn) BROOKLYN 10 OF THE MOST FAMOUS CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS SET IN NEW YORK CITY 
LISTED BY YEAR OF PUBLICATION The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge (1942) Hildegarde H. Swift (The lighthouse is on the Hudson River under the "great gray" George Washington Bridge in Fort Washington (Upper Manhattan) UPPER MANHATTAN Eloise (1955) Kay Thompson (The Plaza Hotel) MIDTOWN This is New York (1960) M. (Miroslav) Sasek (all over Manhattan) MIDTOWN Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (1965) Bernard Wager (Lyle lives on a house on East 88th Street) UPPER EAST SIDE How Pizza Came to Queens (1989) Daval Kaur Khalsa (Queens) QUEENS The Adventures of Taxi Dog (1990) Debra Barracca (All Over) MANHATTAN Next Stop Grand Central (1999) Maira Kalman (Grand Central Terminal) MIDTOWN Curious George in the Big City (2001) Margret and H. A. Rey (Macy's; Empire State Building, Radio City Music Hall; The Guggenheim) MIDTOWN They Came from the Bronx: How the Buffalo Were Saved from Extinction (2001) Neil Waldman (The Bronx Zoo) THE BRONX The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (2003) Mordici Gernstein (World Trade Center towers) FINANCIAL DISTRICT 
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