FLAT CITY: Answers

1. Broadway, roadway
2. Park Avenue, parka venue
3. Bleecker, bleaker
4. Manhattan, hoi polloi
5. wastrel, Wall Street
6. lead-ins, Ellis Island
7. closing trade*, Grand Central Station, congressional district
8. Little Italy, it'll, Lee
9. Tribeca**, Cabaret
10. Harlem, Mahler
11. Hudson, hounds
12. East Side, steadies
13. East River, strive, ear

* When this puzzle was given at the 1998 NPL mini-convention in New
York, I also accepted "trading close" for full credit. However, the
phrase is "closing trade" and can be found on the Internet with this
meaning if you look hard enough.

** I'm told this is properly spelled TriBeCa (since it stands for TRIangle
BElow CAnal), in which case it would have been enumerated *3*2*2. But that
would have made it too obvious! Besides, the New York subway map I was using
when I composed this puzzle spelled it "Tribeca".