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New York's Golden Age of Bridges
In New York’s Golden Age of Bridges, artist Antonio Masi teams up with writer and New York City historian Joan Marans Dim to offer a multidimensional exploration of New York City’s …
Catholics in New York
This lavishly illustrated book chronicles the history, growth, and extraordinary legacy of New York’s largest Christian denomination. Co-published with the Museum of the City of …
Left Bank of the Hudson
In the late 1980s, a handful of artists priced out of Manhattan and desperately needing affordable studio space discovered 111 1st Street, a former P. Lorillard Tobacco Company …
The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way
Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and exploration, including the roles of …
Sacred Shelter
Named a Gift Book for the Discerning New Yorker by The New York Times In a metropolis like New York, homelessness can blend into the urban landscape. For editor Susan Greenfield, …
Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker
Compelling and prophetic, Dorothy Day is one of the most enduring icons of American Catholicism. In the depths of the Great Depression and guided by the Works of Mercy, Day, a …
Brooklyn is
Originally written in 1939 by the author for a special issue of Fortune but rejected by the magazine, an evocative study of the borough of Brooklyn paints a literary portrait of …
From a Nickel to a Token
Streetcars “are as dead as sailing ships,” said Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a radio speech, two days before Madison Avenue’s streetcars yielded to buses. LaGuardia was determined …
Rails Under the Mighty Hudson
Rails Under the Mighty Hudson tells a story that begins in the final years of the nineteenth century and reaches fulfillment in the first decade of the twentieth: namely, the …
Angels of Mercy
William Seraile uncovers the history of the colored orphan asylum, founded in New York City in 1836 as the nation’s first orphanage for African American children. It is a …