Empire State Editions imprint: 31 books
Left Bank of the Hudson
Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
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 warehouse. Over the next two decades, an eclectic collection of painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, filmmakers,...
Red Apple
Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preserve freedom,...
Teach Me to Be Generous
The First Century of Regis High School in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Teach Me to Be Generous tells the remarkable story of Regis High School, the Jesuit school on New York’s Upper East Side that was founded in 1914 by an anonymous donor as a school for Catholic boys whose families could not otherwise afford a Catholic education. Enabled by the philanthropy of the...
The Accidental Playground
Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The Accidental Playground explores the remarkable landscape created by individuals and small groups who occupied and rebuilt an abandoned Brooklyn waterfront. While local residents, activists, garbage haulers, real estate developers, speculators, and two city administrations fought over the fate of...
Teaching While Black
A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Teaching should never be color-blind. In a world where many believe the best approach toward eradicating racism is to feign ignorance of our palpable physical differences, a few have led the movement toward convincing fellow educators not only to consider race but to use it as the very basis of their...
Angels of Mercy
White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
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 remarkable institution that is still in the forefront aiding children. Although no longer an orphanage, in its current incarnation...
Reading Publics
New York City's Public Libraries, 1754-1911
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its “marble palace for book lovers” on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city’s first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York’s...
Walking New York
Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
THE NEW YORK OBSERVER: ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FALL
It’s no wonder that New York has always been a magnet city for writers. Manhattan is one of the most walkable cities in the world. While many novelists, poets, and essayists have enjoyed long walks in New York, not all of them have had...
Raised by the Church
Growing up in New York City's Catholic Orphanages
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
In 1946 Edward Rohs was left by his unwed parents at the Angel Guardian Home to be raised by the Sisters of Mercy. The Sisters hoped that his parents would one day return for him. In time they married and had other
children, but Ed’s parents never came back for him. And they never signed the legal...
Only in New York: An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City
An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Sam writes the Bookshelf column in Sunday Metro section of The New York Times and has covered a lot of our regional books. He plans to write an epilogue to our version to bring it up to date.
The Routes Not Taken
A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Robert A. Van Wyck, mayor of the greater city of New York, broke ground for the first subway line by City Hall on March 24, 1900. It took four years, six months, and twenty-three days to build the line from City Hall to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again. The Routes...
As Bad as They Say?
Three Decades of Teaching in the Bronx
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
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...
by Joan Marans Dim, Antonio Masi
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
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 nine major bridges, their artistic and
cultural underpinnings, and their impact worldwide.
The tale of New...
Fighting Authoritarianism
American Youth Activism in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
During the Great Depression, young radicals centered in New York City developed a vision of and for America, molded by their understanding of recent historical events, in particular the Great War and the global economic collapse, as well as by the events unfolding both at home and abroad. They worked...