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Sojourners in the Capital of the World

Garifuna Immigrants

Maximo G. Martinez

A comprehensive history and insider’s account of the Garifuna in New York City from 1943 to the present dayIn recent years, Latinos—primarily Central American migrants—crossing the southern...

ISBN: 9781531504762

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Colorful Palate

A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience

Raj Tawney

A timely self-examination of the "mixed" American experience featuring exclusive recipes and photographs from the author’s multicultural familyAs citizens continue to evolve and diversify within...

ISBN: 9781531504571

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Flesh and Spirit

Confessions of a Young Lord

Felipe Luciano

ISBN: 9781531504489

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Three gay men in pre-Stonewall NYC find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village barRoger Moorhouse is a Wall Street banker and Westchester family man with a preciously guarded secret....

ISBN: 9781531504441

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A Falling-Off Place

The Transformation of Lower Manhattan

Barbara G. Mensch

Photographer Barbara Mensch's rediscovered photo archives and interview tapes capture symbolic transformations of Lower Manhattan. Many of the images are published here for the first time. The photographs...

ISBN: 9781531504397

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Global Queens

An Urban Mosaic

Joseph Heathcott

A vibrant exploration of the everyday life of one of the most diverse places in the world: Queens, NYRemade by decades of immigration, Queens, NY, has emerged as an emblematic space of social mixing...

ISBN: 9781531504519

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Manhattan

Letters from Prehistory

Hélène Cixous

Translated by Beverley Bie Brahic

The luminous tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors

ISBN: 9781531502898

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Shimmer

Sarah Schulman

A revelatory portrait of McCarthy-era Manhattan—back in print!It is 1948 in Manhattan. Aspiring reporter Sylvia Golubowsky pays her dues in the steno pool at the tabloid New York Star, along with...

ISBN: 9781531502928

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Hell on Color, Sweet on Song

Jacob Wrey Mould and the Artful Beauty of Central Park

Francis R. Kowsky

With Lucille Gordon

Reveals new and previously unknown biographical material about an important figure in nineteenth-century American architecture and music.Jacob Wrey Mould is not a name that readily comes to mind when...

ISBN: 9781531502577

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Ambush at Central Park

When the IRA Came to New York

Mark Bulik

A compelling, action-packed account of the only officially sanctioned I.R.A attack ever conducted on American soil.In 1922, three of the Irish Republican Army’s top gunmen arrived in New York City...

ISBN: 9781531502607

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Caged

A Teacher's Journey Through Rikers, or How I Beheaded the Minotaur

Brandon Dean Lamson

An honest and gripping memoir of one man’s life-altering experience teaching at Rikers Island.When Brandon Dean Lamson first accepted the teaching position at Horizon Academy, a court-mandated academic...

ISBN: 9781531502515

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In the Adirondacks

Dispatches from the Largest Park in the Lower 48

Matt Dallos

An immersive journey into the past, present, and future of a region many consider the Northeast’s wilderness backyard. Out of all the rural areas of the United States, including those in the West,...

ISBN: 9781531502638

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12 Angry Men

Reginald Rose and the Making of an American Classic

Phil Rosenzweig

Finalist, 2021 Wall Award (Formerly the Theatre Library Association Award)The untold story behind one of America’s greatest dramas.In early 1957, a low-budget black-and-white movie opened across the...

ISBN: 9781531502966

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The Ghetto, and Other Poems

An Annotated Edition

Lola Ridge

Edited by Lawrence Kramer

At last recovered in this enriching annotated edition, this important but neglected work of American modernism offers a unique poetic encounter with the Jewish communities in New York’s Lower East Side.

ISBN: 9781531500900

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Townies

William O'Shaughnessy

In his six previous books, William O’Shaughnessy, one of the nation’s best known and most beloved community broadcasters, has told the tales of the power brokers and visionaries of politics, government,...

ISBN: 9781531502447

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South Bronx Rising

The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City

Jill Jonnes

Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires,...

ISBN: 9781531501211

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Out with the Stars

James Purdy

Following the discovery of an anonymous libretto, Abner Blossom comes out of retirement to write an opera based on the life of infamous novelist-turned-photographer Cyril Vane. But those who knew Vane...

ISBN: 9781531501204

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I Am Elijah Thrush

James Purdy

On its surface, I Am Elijah Thrush is the story of Millicent De Frayne and her sensational half-century campaign to win the love of Elijah Thrush. Elijah, after ruining the lives of countless men and...

ISBN: 9781531501198

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Heaven on the Hudson

Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park

Stephanie Azzarone

A colorful tale of a singular New York City neighborhood and the personalities who make it specialTo outsiders or East Siders, Riverside Park and Riverside Drive may not have the star status of Fifth...

ISBN: 9781531501006

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Antiquity in Gotham

The Ancient Architecture of New York City

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis

The first detailed study of “Neo-Antique” architecture applies an archaeological lens to the study of New York City’s structuresSince the city’s inception, New Yorkers have deliberately and...

ISBN: 9781531502423

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Cross Bronx

A Writing Life

Peter Quinn

In his inimitable prose, master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-league politics and corporate hardball.Cross Bronx is...

ISBN: 9781531500948

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The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It

Matthew Spady

Audubon Park’s journey from farmland to cityscapeThe study of Audubon Park’s origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban community, an examination...

ISBN: 9781531501921

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Africans in Harlem

An Untold New York Story

Boukary Sawadogo

The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African influence in Harlem.From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Harlem was the intellectual and cultural center of the Black world. The Harlem...

ISBN: 9780823299126

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What I Did Wrong

John Weir

Set in a rapidly gentrifying New York City determined to move beyond the decimation of a generation a decade earlier, What I Did Wrong is a day in the life of Tom, a forty-two-year-old English professor,...

ISBN: 9780823299454

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The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket

John Weir

Before the onset of his irreversible decline, Eddie Socket always suspected he was on the verge of something. Now that “something” has arrived in the form of Merrit Mather, an attractive older gentleman...

ISBN: 9780823299430

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Sojourners in the Capital of the World

Colorful Palate

Flesh and Spirit

Disorderly Men

A Falling-Off Place

Global Queens

Manhattan

Shimmer

Hell on Color, Sweet on Song

Ambush at Central Park

Caged

In the Adirondacks

12 Angry Men

The Ghetto, and Other Poems

Townies

South Bronx Rising

Out with the Stars

I Am Elijah Thrush

Heaven on the Hudson

Antiquity in Gotham

Cross Bronx

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Africans in Harlem

What I Did Wrong

The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket

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