In 'New York Rising,’ authors explore 400 years of the city's history

… dozens of soldiers   New York Rising is a companionable guide to how the city got from there to here from the image … neighbors into perpetual shadow stealing their daylight and rents Willis writes that objections to the new building … none of its public housing stock We are in some ways currently witnessing the difficulties of maintaining such a …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 1, 2018 - 9:00AM
The 25 best books about the history of New York City's boroughs and neighborhoods

… they cover … Lower Manhattan … South Street A Photographic Guide to New York Citys Historic Seaport by Ellen Fletcher … Watson conveys the social life of workingclass speakeasies rent parties and gay and lesbian nightlife as well as the … years of field work in the ElmhurstCorona area Here different immigrant streams were becoming a majority of the …

By Marjorie Cohen |March 30, 2018 - 12:00PM