<DIV>Taking on the streets. East or Westside. Uptown and Down. The pace quickens through the boroughs out of necessity. Every move the most important. Too much competition. Looking at each other for someone to blame. Doing anything just to be part of the magnitude. Everybody lost in the expanse. The City doesn’t cheat you. It teaches. You absorb either knowledge or the blows. There are days when you find out you can’t cut it anymore. And there are others when you come out at the top. The <I>Have a NYC</I> anthology series is an intense annual collection of modern short stories set in New York, edited by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges. These stories are sharp and concise, each an unusual take on the swirling panorama of the streets of New York, from Hell’s Kitchen to Greenwich Village and Coney Island to Williamsburg, Queens, and beyond. Readers are transported by a modern noir sensibility, populated by a plethora of characters of our times, carving new notches of experience on the city that still fires up the imagination.</DIV>