Editing Incident on 57th Street (section)

==Writing and recording==
"Incident on 57th Street" was the last song Springsteen recorded for ''The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle''.<ref name=heylin/>  As with the rest of the album, it was recorded at [[914 Sound Studios]] in [[Blauvelt, New York]].<ref name=heylin>{{cite book|title=E Street Shuffle: The Glory Days of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band|author=[[Clinton Heylin|Heylin, C.]]|pages=77, 183, 219, 319|year=2012|publisher=Constable & Robinson|isbn=9781780335797}}</ref>  Springsteen had been working on it under the working title "Puerto Rican Jane."<ref name=heylin/>  It was one of the first songs on which Springsteen felt like an "observer," writing whatever came out of him rather than self-consciously trying to write something specific.<ref name=heylin/>  On the album, the piano solo at the end of the song [[segue]]s directly into the guitar opening of the following song, "[[Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)]]."<ref name=runaway>{{cite book|title=Runaway American Dream: Listening to Bruce Springsteen|author=Guterman, J.|year=2008|publisher=Da Capo|isbn= 9780786741298}}</ref>