'Boy Detective' Walks Down Memory Lane, But Doesn't Get Anywhere

... Here is New York and Alfred Kazin's A Walker in the City, Rosenblatt roams the Manhattan streets around the Gramercy Park neighborhood in which he grew up, evoking memories while remarking on all the changes. On a cold "glass punch bowl of a night" ...

http://www.npr.org/2013/11/05/241659304/boy-detective-walks-down-memory-lane-but-doesnt-get-anywhere?ft=1&f=1032