10024 is a memoir of the author’s early life from the ages of seven to thirty, when he lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, probably the first New York neighborhood to undergo the process of gentrification. He shares with the reader experiences of a time when Broadway was a cobblestone street with trolleys, when an egg cream cost a nickel, and when the sixteen acres that are now Lincoln Center was a slum.

The details of the author’s adventures as he grew from boy to man are an engrossing story, and at the same time a social history of one of New York’s most famous and influential neighborhoods.