The 25 best books about New York City history

… ago or just arrived you might be curious to know something about what was here before you Kenneth Jackson editor of The … City says that over ten thousand books have been written about the city including about a hundred a year from 1990 on so sorting the wheat …

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

… In the 25 years since her first Brooklyn guidebook came out Ellen Freudenheim author of The … years she and her husband rented out apartments within the house to generate income Given how expensive her … of the population density you have stores like Whole Foods and you see places like the Gowanus Canal and Newtown …

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