The 25 best books about New York City history

… about the city including about a hundred a year from 1990 on so sorting the wheat from the chaff is a daunting … … Justin Davidson … 14  City on Two Rivers  by Stephen Longstreet … Written in 1975 this is New York City at breakneck … by Christine Stansell  … Explores womens experience cooperative and competitive in early New York Citys tenement …

By Marjorie Cohen |February 14, 2018 - 9:00AM
"The Brooklyn Experience": Then and now

… out apartments within the house to generate income Given how expensive her neighborhood has gotten Freudenheim says … or rather increasing unaffordability I do want to dispel the myth that Brooklyn just happened This … Williamsburg where there isnt a lot of landmarking its that much more noticeable And these days if you go to downtown …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |May 17, 2016 - 8:59AM