New York

Also the city

The city where Gussie goes on the stage and Bertie follows him.

In each book 6 books

• In Other Stories
  The city where Gussie goes on the stage and Bertie follows him.
• In My Man Jeeves
  The city where Bertie settles in exile, which Aunt Isabel longs to enjoy and Rocky loathes.
• In The Inimitable Jeeves
  The city where Bertie lies low from Aunt Agatha and where Cyril lands.
• In Carry On, Jeeves
  The city where Bertie lives in exile and his friends' troubles unfold.
• In Thank You, Jeeves
  Where Bertie was briefly engaged to Pauline Stoker until Glossop intervened.
• In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
  Where Bertie and Jeeves had planned to go, and where they finally go for peace and quiet.

Connections

dealings

• is visited by, is fled by Bertie Wooster 3
• is advised by, is visited by Jeeves 2
• is denounced by, is disparaged by Jimmy Mundy 2
• is loathed by, is disliked by Rocky Todd 2
• is longed for by Aunt Isabel 1

Inside it

• Abe Riesbitter's office
• the Auditorium
• Bertie's New York club
• Bertie's New York flat
• Blackwell's Island
• Blumenfield's theatre
• the Customs sheds
• the Danbys' apartment
• Frolics on the Roof
• Gussie's hotel
• the Hippodrome
• the hostelry
• the Lambs Club
• the low restaurant
• Madison Square Garden
• the Maison Pierre
• the Manhattan
• the Midnight Revels
• the music-room
• Peale's
• the Plaza
• the police station
• the quiet restaurant
• Reigelheimer's
• the Sherry-Netherland
• the St. Aurea
• the street
• the supper restaurant
• the theatre
• the uptown theatre
• Washington Square

Scenes set here

Other Stories 1 scene

1. Landing in New York, Bertie finds Gussie gone from his hotel, takes two lightning whizzers at the bar and strolls round Times Square feeling free of Aunt Agatha.Chapter 1, New York

Thank You, Jeeves 1 scene

1. Bertie recalls how, hiding from Aunt Agatha in New York, he fell for Pauline Stoker and got engaged to her, until Sir Roderick Glossop told her father all about him and the engagement was called off.Chapter 1, New York

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 1 scene

1. In New York, Bertie learns from Uncle Tom's letter and a clipping that Simla was awarded the race after Cook's cat ran on to the course, and tells Jeeves that aunts are not gentlemen.Chapter 20, New York

Talked about, but not there

Other Stories 3 scenes

1. Aunt Agatha rouses Bertie early to tell him Gussie has fallen for a vaudeville girl in New York and orders him to go over and stop the marriage.Chapter 1
2. Bertie runs into Gussie, now calling himself George Wilson, at Abe Riesbitter's agency, where Gussie is booked for the small time so that Ray's father will let him marry her, and Bertie secretly cables Gussie's mother.Chapter 1, Abe Riesbitter's office
3. Gussie reports that his mother is to marry Danby and he is to marry Ray, and Bertie answers Aunt Agatha's cable: 'Stay where you are. Profession overcrowded.'Chapter 1, Gussie's hotel

My Man Jeeves 9 scenes

1. Bertie explains how he came to New York and met Corky, a would-be portrait-painter living on an allowance from his bird-loving, jute-rich uncle Alexander Worple.Chapter 1
2. Corky brings his fiancée Muriel Singer to ask how to break the news to his uncle, and Jeeves proposes that she 'write' a children's bird book dedicated to Worple, at Bertie's expense.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
3. Back in town, Bertie finds Muriel dining alone and learns she has left the stage and married Corky's uncle, who invites Bertie to dinner.Chapter 1, the quiet restaurant
4. Rocky wakes Bertie with his aunt's letter demanding he live it up in New York and report weekly, and Jeeves proposes that he do the town himself and supply notes for Rocky's letters.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
5. Jeeves enjoys himself in the cabarets taking notes, Rocky turns them into dazzling letters to his aunt, and Bertie compares them with his own feeble letter to Freddie.Chapter 4
6. Aunt Isabel turns up at the flat believing it to be Rocky's, takes Bertie for a sponging intruder and Jeeves for Rocky's man, and moves in, driving Bertie out to an hotel.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
7. Bertie mopes valetless at the hotel until Rocky telephones from the Midnight Revels in agony, squeezed into Bertie's evening clothes, his allowance stopped and his aunt cured and thriving.Chapter 4, the St. Aurea
8. Bertie takes to the cabarets again and glimpses a suffering Rocky with his aunt, who seems to be wondering where the celebrities are.Chapter 4
9. Converted by Jimmy Mundy, to whose meeting Jeeves 'mistakenly' took her, Aunt Isabel begs Rocky to give up wicked New York and live in the country, and he joyfully agrees.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat

The Inimitable Jeeves 5 scenes

1. Jeeves returns, Aunt Agatha telephones in a state, Bertie realises the engagement is off and Jeeves engineered it, and Jeeves books passage to New York.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat
2. Bertie reflects on the menace of letters of introduction and explains why he welcomed Cyril, bearing a civil one from Aunt Agatha, as a Dove of Peace.Chapter 9
3. Jeeves sends the early-calling Cyril away, brings Bertie the letter from Aunt Agatha asking him to look after Cyril, and grudgingly hands over the purple socks.Chapter 9, Bertie's New York flat
4. Lunching with George Caffyn at the Lambs Club, Bertie learns from Jeeves that Cyril has been arrested and wants bailing out.Chapter 9, the Lambs Club
5. At the police station Cyril, sporting a black eye, explains he shoved a policeman he took for a postman, and Bertie bails him out after introducing him to George.Chapter 9, the police station

Carry On, Jeeves 5 scenes

1. Bertie explains his American exile and Corky’s dependence on an uncle who despises his artistic ambitions.Chapter 2
2. Bertie recalls asserting his independence over Jeeves’s choice of hat just before the Malvern trouble began.Chapter 3
3. Jeeves proposes supplying nightlife reports so Rocky can satisfy his aunt without leaving the country.Chapter 5, Bertie's bedroom
4. Jeeves enjoys the cabarets while Rocky’s vivid invented letters delight his aunt.Chapter 5
5. Isabel reveals her conversion by Jimmy Mundy and begs Rocky to abandon New York for the country.Chapter 5, the sitting-room

Thank You, Jeeves 4 scenes

1. Strumming his banjolele, Bertie tells Jeeves he saw the Stokers dining with Sir Roderick Glossop and Lord Chuffnell's aunt at the Savoy Grill, and is outraged to hear that Glossop has called to see him.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
2. Chuffy, rattled to learn from Glossop that Bertie was once engaged to Pauline, is reassured and reveals he is now engaged to her and that Stoker has agreed to buy the Hall.Chapter 6, the rustic bench
3. Jeeves tells how a fight between Dwight and Seabury became a general brawl, Stoker withdrew from buying the Hall, Chuffy insulted him, Pauline was confined to the yacht, and Chuffy overheard about the kiss.Chapter 6, Jeeves's quarters
4. Bertie persuades a seething Chuffy that the kiss was brotherly, and Chuffy, resolved to marry Pauline regardless of money, plans to send Jeeves into Stoker's service to carry his letters.Chapter 6, Seaview Cottage

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 2 scenes

1. Bertie tells Jeeves the New York trip is off in favour of Maiden Eggesford, where Jeeves has an aunt, and recalls with him the old Plank episode.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
2. Jeeves unties Bertie, freezes off Plank by denying he is Inspector Witherspoon, and reveals the cat is his aunt's, so Bertie sets off to put terms to Cook.Chapter 19, Wee Nooke