Big Apple Eyes
- Mike Hammer by Mickey Spillane
- Matt Scudder by Lawrence Block
- Mary Lou “Dunk” Bateson by Lawrence Sanders
- Joshua Bigg by Lawrence Sanders
- R.J. Brooks by Stephen Bogart
- Burke by Andrew Vachss
- Curt Cannon by Curt Cannon (The Bowery)
- Pete Chambers by Henry Kane
- Timothy Cone by Lawrence Sanders
- Timothy Dane by William Ard
- Nick Delvecchio by Robert J. Randisi
- Steve Drake by Richard Ellington (Broadway)
- Fortune Fanelli by Jack Early (Soho)
- Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg by Frank Gruber
- Dan Fortune by Michael Collins (Chelsea)
- Kinky Friedman by Kinky Friedman (Greenwich Village)
- Jim Hanvey by Octavius Roy Cohen
- D. Hunter by Nelson George
- Henry Hyer by Kurt Steel
- Miles Jacoby by Robert J. Randisi
- Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones by Chester Himes (Harlem)
- Scott Jordan by Harold Q. Masur
- Slot Machine Kelly by Dennis Lynds
- Wolf Lannihan by Lawrence Sanders
- Lauren Laurano by Sandra Scoppetone (Greenwich Village)
- Jack LeVine by Andrew Bergman
- Johnny Liddell by Frank Kane
- Captain Duncan Maclain by Baynard Kendricks
- Pete McGrath by Michael Brett
- Toussaint Moore by Ed Lacy
- Easton Newburn by Chip Zdarsky & Jacob Phillips
- Ed Noon by Michael Avallone
- Alex Rada by Henry F. Mazel
- Philip St. Ives by Oliver Bleeck
- John Shaft by Ernest Tidyman
- Desmond Shannon by M.V. Heberden
- Sonny Spoon by Michael Daly & Dinah Prince, and Stephen J. Cannell & Randall Wallace
- Rocky Steele by John B. West
- Mitch Tobin by Tucker Coe
- Samuel Todd by Lawrence Sanders
- Joe Venice by Jiro Kimura
- Gil Vine by Stewart Sterling
- Nero Wolfe& Archie Goodwin by Rex Stout
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
- A New York State of Mind
Other Empire State Eyes
Respectfully compiled by Kevin Burton Smith.
