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Ron Howell is a journalist who has written extensively about the Caribbean, Latin America, and New York City. He is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Brooklyn College and author of One Hundred Jobs: A Panorama of Work in the American City.

Carol Lamberg (Author) Carol Lamberg was Executive Director of the Settlement Housing Fund from 1983 until she retired in 2014.

Nandini Bagchee is an Associate Professor of Design and History at the Spitzer School of Architecture at CCNY, CUNY and Principal of Bagchee Architects.

Britt Haas is an historian and teacher of writing at Siena College whose research interests include social movements and public policy.

Britt Haas is an historian and teacher of writing at Siena College whose research interests include social movements and public policy.

David J. Goodwin is an urban historian and historic preservation advocate and currently a librarian at Fordham University where he received his MA in Urban Studies. A resident of Jersey City, Goodwin has served as a member and chairman of the Jersey City Historic Preservation Commission and he is a current board member of the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy.

Pamela Hanlon, a former corporate communications executive with American Express Company, United Airlines, and Pan American, has lived in the East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, near the United Nations headquarters, since 1976, and has written extensively about the area.

David Borkowski is Associate Professor of English at William Paterson University.

Offers a powerful statement about Black resilience and triumph amid subtle and explicit racism in the United States. This book reveals the place that Black dancers and artists hold in civil rights pursuits and anti-racism campaigns in the United States and beyond.

A photographic survey of North Brother Island, an uninhabited island of ruins in New York City that was once home to a variety of institutional uses, including a quarantine hospital and juvenile drug treatment center.

Rundown, vermin-infested buildings. Rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and As Bad as They Say? tells the heroic stories of Janet Mayer's students during her 33-year tenure as a Bronx high school teacher.

The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history. Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx at a time-the 1950s-when that neighborhood was a place of optimism and hope for upw...

The Routes Not Taken is intended to provide readers with an understanding of how New York City's transit system could have grown beyond its current limits and the conditions and actions that kept it from expanding further and how it actually contracted over the years.

Through five case histories, the book provides a snapshot of political persecution in mid-twentieth century America.

Victorian-era divas who were better paid than some corporate chairmen, the boy soprano who grew up to give Bing Crosby a run for his money, music directors who were literally killed by the job-the plot of a Broadway show or a dime-store novel? No, the unique and colorful history of St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Still the Same Hawk is a collection of original works by some of the best thinkers on urban nature. The book is focused on a phenomenon of widespread interest-urban nature-but as seen through the eyes of present or someday famous prose poets writing about America's most prominent city.

Now in a revised edition, the award-winning chronicle of the rich aquatic wilderness surrounding New York City-an extraordinary story of ecological survival despite the ravages of urban development

An essential and accessible source for those who want to understand the varied and rich history of New York's Lower East Side and its Jewish population

The classic book on the Lower East Side's synagogues and their congregations, past and present-now back in print in a completely revised and expanded edition

A history of unrealized plans to expand New York City's rapid transit and commuter rail systems.