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Devil¿s Mile tells the rip-roaring story of New York¿s oldest and most unique street The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th century. The very name evoked visuals of drunken bums passed out on the sidewalk, and New Yorkers nicknamed it ¿Satan¿s Highway, ¿ ¿The Mile of Hell, ¿ and ¿The Street of Forgotten Men.¿ For years the little businesses along the Bowery¿stationers, dry goods sellers, jewelers, hatters¿periodically...

The incredible story of the man and legend who has come to symbolize the continuing pursuit of justice for Blacks in the United States Through the 1980s, the mainstream press portrayed the Reverend Al Sharpton as a buffoon, a fake minister, a hustler, an opportunist, a demagogue, a race traitor, and an anti-Semite. Today, Sharpton occupies a throne that would have shocked the white newspaper reporters who covered him forty years ago. A mesmeri...

The first comprehensive treatment in seventy years of the American Art-Union縮 remarkable rise and fall For over a decade, the New York縝ased American Art-Union shaped art creation, display, and patronage nationwide. Boasting as many as 19, 000 members from almost every state, its meteoric rise and its sudden and spectacular collapse still raise a crucial question: Why did such a successful and influential institution fail? The American Art-Unio...

The stories of 18 immigrant families from East Harlem and their experiences with one of New York¿s deeply-rooted organizations On any given weekday, people stream in and out of Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service¿s bright, airy building on 115th Street. They are mostly mothers who find their way to LSA, sometimes only weeks after crossing the border from Mexico, having heard of the support that las hermanitas (¿the little si...

The stories of 18 immigrant families from East Harlem and their experiences with one of New York¿s deeply-rooted organizations On any given weekday, people stream in and out of Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service¿s bright, airy building on 115th Street. They are mostly mothers who find their way to LSA, sometimes only weeks after crossing the border from Mexico, having heard of the support that las hermanitas (¿the little si...

The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and acclaimed guide to the High Line by the leading expert on the history of the park ¿ now in a fully revised edition Built atop a former freight railroad, the ¿park in the sky¿ is regularly cited as one of the premiere examples of adaptive reuse and quickly became one of New York¿s most popular destinations, attracting more than 8 million visitors a year. This updated Third Edition of On the High Line¿publ...

A timely self-examination of the "mixed" American experience featuring exclusive recipes and photographs from the author's multicultural family As citizens continue to evolve and diversify within the United States, the ingredients that comprise each flavorful household are waiting to be discovered and devoured. In Colorful Palate, author Raj Tawney shares his coming-of-age memoir as a young man born into an Indian, Puerto Rican, and Italian-Am...

With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng¿s upbringing in Flushing, Queens, in the 1970s. Back then, his family was one of the few immigrant Chinese families in a far-flung neighborhood in New York City. His parents had an arranged marriage and ran a Chinese hand laundry. From behind the cou...

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A micro-biography of horror fiction¿s most influential author and his love¿hate relationship with New York City. By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft resigned himself to the likelihood that his writing would be forgotten. Today, Lovecraft stands alongside J. R. R. Tolkien as the most influential genre writer of the twentieth century. His reputation as an unreformed racist and bigot, howev...

A comprehensive history and insider's account of the Garifuna in New York City from 1943 to the present day. In recent years, Latinos-primarily Central American migrants-crossing the southern border of the United States have dominated the national media, as the legitimacy of their detention and of U.S. immigration policy in general is debated by partisan politicians and pundits. Among these migrants seeking economic opportunities and fleeing v...

A comprehensive history and insider's account of the Garifuna in New York City from 1943 to the present day. In recent years, Latinos-primarily Central American migrants-crossing the southern border of the United States have dominated the national media, as the legitimacy of their detention and of U.S. immigration policy in general is debated by partisan politicians and pundits. Among these migrants seeking economic opportunities and fleeing v...

Audubon Park¿s journey from farmland to cityscape The study of Audubon Park¿s origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban community, an examination of the relationship between people and the land they inhabit. When John James Audubon bought fourteen acres of northern Manhattan farmland in 1841, he set in motion a chain of events that moved forward inexorably to the streetscape that emer...

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As Superintendent of School Buildings from 1891 to 1922, architect Charles B.J. Snyder elevated the standards of school architecture. Unprecedented immigration and progressive-era changes in educational philosophy led to his fresh approach to design and architecture which forever altered the look and feel of 20th-century classrooms and school buildings. Students rich or poor, immigrant or native New Yorker, went from learning in factory-like s...

Through the 1980s, the mainstream press portrayed Reverend Al Sharpton as a buffoon, a fake minister, a hustler, an opportunist, a demagogue, a race traitor, and an anti-Semite. Today, Sharpton occupies a throne that would have shocked the white newspaper reporters who covered him forty years ago. A mesmerizing story of astounding transformation and survival, King Al follows Reverend Sharpton's life trajectory, from his early life as a boy pre...

Recounts the story of Americäs last great newspaper war between the New York Daily News and the New York Post, as both papers¿ long rivalry turned existential amid the rise of digital news. The story is told through the eyes of the reporters, or ¿runners, ¿ and photographers who fought the war on the ground in cities across America.

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Sunnyside Gardens presents an alternative model for urban living, a green, human-scaled community as opposed to the anonymous glass towers rising in cities today.