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Sacred Shelter

Susan Greenfield

Edited by Susan Greenfield

Thirteen formerly homeless New Yorkers tell their life stories, describing their joys as well as torments, their broken-heartedness and faith. At a time when national homelessness is on the rise, and when the discriminatory and punitive social conditions that create it are getting worse, Sacred Shelter celebrates the personal dignity of each and every individual and insists on our communal need to listen to each other.

ISBN: 9780823281190

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In the Shadow of Genius

Barbara G. Mensch

In the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author combines her striking photographs with a powerful first-person narrative. She takes the reader...

ISBN: 9780823280452

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Only in New York

Sam Roberts, Pete Hamill

Sam Roberts

No one denies that New York City is unique—but what makes it sui generis? Sam Roberts, a longtime city reporter, has puzzled over this in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts...

ISBN: 9780823281077

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Bad Faith

Andrew Feffer

Bad Faith recounts the history of the Rapp-Coudert investigation into communist subversion in the public schools and municipal colleges of New York City, lasting from 1940 to 1942. This study explores how prominent depression-era liberals, as they joined in accusing Communists of “bad faith” and branded them enemies of American democracy, anticipated and made McCarthyism possible.

ISBN: 9780823281152

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Boss of Black Brooklyn

Ron Howell

Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold story about the struggles and achievements of the first black person to hold public office in Brooklyn. Bertram L. Baker immigrated to...

ISBN: 9780823280995

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New York After 9/11

Susan Opotow, Zachary Baron Shemtob, Charles Jennings, Diala Shamas, Hirofumi Minami, Brian Davis, Ariel Durosky, Norman Groner, Yuval Neria, Anne Hilburn, Lait Helpman, Daniel Libeskind, Ari Lowell, Xi Zhu, Guillermina Mejia, Micki Siegel de Hernández, David Prezant, Michael Crane, Kimberly Flynn, Cristina Onea, Karyna Pryiomka, Patrick Sweeney

Edited by Susan Opotow and Zachary Baron Shemtob

Contributor(s): Charles Jennings, Diala Shamas, Hirofumi Minami, Brian Davis, Ariel Durosky, Norman Groner, Yuval Neria, Anne Hilburn, Lait Helpman, Daniel Libeskind, Ari Lowell, Xi Zhu, Guillermina Mejia, Micki Siegel de Hernández, David Prezant, Michael Crane, Kimberly Flynn, Cristina Onea, Karyna Pryiomka and Patrick Sweeney

This book examines the aftermath of 9/11 in New York City and the various ways that this event profoundly reshaped multiple spheres of City life.

ISBN: 9780823281275

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Classical New York

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Matthew McGowan, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Matthew McGowan, Elizabeth Bartman, Maryl B. Gensheimer, Francis Morrone, Margaret Malamud, Allyson McDavid, Jon Ritter, Jared Simard

Edited by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew McGowan

Contributor(s): Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Matthew McGowan, Elizabeth Bartman, Maryl B. Gensheimer, Francis Morrone, Margaret Malamud, Allyson McDavid, Jon Ritter and Jared Simard

This book examines the reception and appropriation of Classical (Greco-Roman) Art and Architecture in New York from 1830–1940, including Pennsylvania Station, Rockefeller Center, the Gould Memorial Library, the proposed Civic Center (Foley Square), Federal Hall, as well as on the use of inscriptions in New York’s art and architecture.

ISBN: 9780823281022

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Counter Institution

Nandini Bagchee

Counter Institution is a history of three re-purposed buildings in the Lower East Side--Peace Pentagon, ABC No Rio, and El Bohio--that have been used by activists as their headquarters to launch various actions over the past forty years.

ISBN: 9780823279265

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Neighborhood Success Stories

Carol Lamberg, Gale A. Brewer, Ruben Diaz Jr.

Carol Lamberg

This book illustrates examples of successful community development on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and in the Bronx, using seven different methods of finance, only one of which is still available today. The buildings were developed between 1975 and 1997.

ISBN: 9780823279203

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Fighting Authoritarianism

Britt Haas

Calling into question the Cold War perspective that continued to permeate analyses of radicalism long after the fall of the Soviet Union, this study examines young Depression-Era radicals’ worldview—a worldview developed from the epicenter of young radical activism and ideology: New York City college campuses.

ISBN: 9780823277995

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EMPIRE STATE EDITIONS

Sacred Shelter

In the Shadow of Genius

Only in New York

Bad Faith

Boss of Black Brooklyn

New York After 9/11

Classical New York

Counter Institution

Neighborhood Success Stories

Fighting Authoritarianism

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