Up Is Up, But So Is Down
New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992

Edited by Brandon Stosuy, With an afterword by Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles

"Some of us like our angels with dirty faces; witness the lovingly reproduced artifacts of Up Is Up, But So Is Down, a comprehensive compendium of below-14th Street literary productions by everyone from Laurie Anderson to Nick Zedd, focusing on the output of small magazines of the era like Koff, Bomb, and Between C and D...[the] stories meld dry satire with heart-churningly desperate transmissions of damaged humanity."
—Village Voice

Broken Land
Poems of Brooklyn

Edited by Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell

"Published by NYU Press, it is the first poetry anthology dedicated exclusively to verse about Brooklyn. Editors Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell have culled 135 poems that chart the boroughs long history as a place of danger and beauty, dreams and disappointment. Sure, there are several references to Brooklyns bridges and Coney Islands beaches — and even a few to the Dodgers — but the book also encompasses a diversity of lives lived among and between the boroughs icons.
—Brooklyn Daily Eagle

New York Stories
The Best of the City Section of the New York Times

Edited by Connie Rosenblum

"A reminder that there are stories still untold in New York, and writers hard at work to find them for us."
—The New York Times Book Review

110 Stories
New York Writes After September 11

Edited by Ulrich Baer

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Named as one of USA Today's "most promising books on September 11th

"Vivid, creative."—Forecast

Brooklyn By Name
How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names

Leonard Bernardo and Jennifer Weiss

"Fascinating morsels of Brooklyn history...An entertaining, breezy compilation...if you wanna know how Dead Horse Bay, Sheepshead Bay, Junior's Restaurant, Green-Wood Cemetery, Gilmore Court or the Riegelmann Boardwalk got their names, grab a copy of Brooklyn By Name."
—New York Daily News

Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan
A Historical Guide

Diane L. Durante

"[Durante's] guidebook is a perfect walking-tour accompaniment to help New Yorkers and visitors find, identify and better appreciate statues famous and obscure...Durante winsomely places 54 monuments in historical and artistic perspective. Lets hope Ms. Durante follows up in the other four boroughs.
—The New York Times

The Big Onion Guide to Brooklyn
Ten Historic Tours

Seth I. Kamil and Eric Wakin
Foreword by Kevin Baker

"One could scarcely find a more informative and engaging guide than this book...It is a delight, deeply knowledgeable, presented with wit and style."
—New York History

The Big Onion Guide to New York City
Ten Historic Tours

Seth I. Kamil and Eric Wakin
Foreword by Kenneth Jackson

"The founders of the acclaimed Big Onion Walking Tours outline 10 historical walks in their home borough, from America's first pencil factory to Bedford-Stuyvesant's beautiful row houses to Coney Island."—San Francisco Chronicle

Artwalks in New York
Delightful Discoveries of Public Art and Gardens in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island

Marina Harrison and Lucy D. Rosenfeld

"East side, west side, all around the townthis handy, pocket-sized guide is a great tool for the wanderer in search of those out-of-the-way treasures that New York is abundantly full of. Revised and updated, Artwalks is a must for the discerning curious.
—Art Times

Six Heritage Tours of the Lower East Side
A Walking Guide

Ruth Limmer

Many of our nation's oldest ethnic communities trace their roots in this country to New York City's Lower East Side. A century ago, travelers to the area could attend a black-faced minstrel show performed by Irishmen, drink German lager, visit Jewish-run gambling houses, and dine on Chinese delicacies, all within a matter of blocks. Long a hub of immigrant cultures, this vibrant section of New York City remains one of the country's most astonishingly diverse neighborhoods.

Tugboats of New York
An Illustrated History

George Matteson

"2005 Author of the Year Award—Working Harbor Committee of New York and New Jersey

2006 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the category of Trade Illustrated Book Design

"A handsome account of these durable, powerful, romantic little fellows."
—New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice

We Skate Hardcore
Photographs from Brooklyn's Southside

Vincent Cianni

"Chronicling young, mostly Latino people who used neighborhood parks and plazas to perfect their in-line skating moves. . . . More than just cool action shots. The images portray how these teens climbed toward adulthood in a changing neighborhoods public spaces.
—Time Out New York

The Long Island Sound
A History of Its People, Places, and Environment

Marilyn E. Weigold

"More than 40 photographs and illustrations capture the feel of the Sound and render a visual history of its transformation; ultimately, the book shows that despite the over-development of much of the Sound, there are still places that remain pristine and untouched."
—Publishers Weekly

The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York

Peter Paris, John W. Cook, James Hudnut-Beumler, Lawrence Mamiya, Leonora Tisdale, Judith Weisenfel

""This is an excellent scholarly resource on liberal Protestant church history and is recommended for all congregational libraries."
—Church and Synagogue Libraries

The Student's Encyclopedia of Judaism
A History of Its People, Places, and Environment

Editor in Chief Geoffrey Wigoder , Coeditors Fred Skolnick and Shmuel Himelstein

"Students, and their parents, looking for a good one-stop book to answer questions or to help with religious school homework will find this encyclopedia handy. And those looking for a religious-oriented bar/bat mitzvah gift may have found the answers to their prayers."
—Voice of the Dutchess Jewish Community

Horace Greeley
Champion of American Freedom

Robert C. Williams

"Williams gives a straightforward account...[and] argues that Greeley unswervingly devoted himself to a single ideal—American freedom—and was, in turn, crucial to its development."
—The New Yorker

The Bobbed Hair Bandit
A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York

Stephen Duncombe and Andrew Mattson

"With crisp prose and a lively selection of newspaper photographs, headlines, cartoons, and excerpts, authors Stephen Duncombe and Andrew Mattson tell a story of an outlaw couple and, through them, the story of an era."
—Boston Globe

The End of the Hamptons
Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise

Corey Dolgon

Winner of the 2005 Book Prize from the Association for Humanist Sociology

Winner of the 2007 American Sociologist Association Marxist Section Book Award

The Brooklyn Cyclones
Hardball Dreams and the New Coney Island

Ben Osborne

"Osborne...actually lives in Brooklyn. This lends both weight and depth to his account of the Cyclones' birth, and a reality, rather than nostalgic sentimentalism, to his Brooklyn."
—Nine

New York City
A Short History

George J. Lankevich

"Here, as in New York itself, may be found everything and everyone, from the first inept Dutch leader, William Verhulst, to the number of saloons in 1820, to the budget debacles of the 1970s."—The New York Times Book Review

New York, Year by Year
A Chronology of the Great Metropolis

Jeffrey A. Kroessler

Winner, The New York Public Library, Best of Reference Award, 2002

Naming New York
Manhattan Places and How They Got Their Names

Sanna Feirstein

"Even natives to the Big Apple are unlikely to know many of the facts that Feirstein has uncovered in this little gem."
—Publisher's Weekly

Tunneling to the Future
The Story of the Great Subway Expansion that Saved New York

Peter Derrick

"Illuminating ...Yes, the city built the subway (with a lot of help from the private sector), but more important, the subway built the city, which remains dependent on its intricate structure."
—New York Magazine