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- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Photography
- Era(s): Modern
Rooted in the Hood is a photo essay celebrating the community gardens of New York City and the people who create, cultivate, and enjoy them. The late 60s and 70s witnessed the devastation of New York City, with many...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Wanted: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic and selfless–bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived preschooler. Must love getting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): early 21st century
When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s great news for Theo, who’s struggling to hang onto her family’s two-hundred-year-old townhouse...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Soon after Bette Robinson quits her horrendous Manhattan banking job like the impulsive girl she’s never been, the novelty of walking her four-pound dog around her unglamorous Murray Hill neighborhood wears as thin as the “What are you going...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1957
A Rage in Harlem is a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): 2000
An absorbing novel of crime, its terrifying consequences, and a bond that redefines the friendship of three restless young men. Wall Street speculators, the Manhattan downtown club scene, Russian gangsters, immigrant neighborhoods – all the elements in the urban...
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