Books
THE NEW YORKERS: 31 REMARKABLE PEOPLE, 400 YEARS, AND THE UNTOLD BIOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST CITY
by Sam Roberts
Bloomsbury Publishing, October 2022
From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it. In Sam Roberts's pulsating history of the world's most exceptional metropolis, greet the city anew through thirty-one unique New Yorkers you've probably never heard of-just in time for the city's 400th birthday.
IMAGES OF AMERICA: HISTORIC HOUSES OF QUEENS
by Rob MacKay
Arcadia Publishing, May 2021
Queens, New York, boasts a rich history that includes dozens of poorly publicized but historically impressive houses. A mix of farmsteads, mansions, seaside escapes, and architecturally significant community dwellings, these homes were owned by America’s forefathers, nouveau riche industrialists, Wall Street tycoons, and prominent African American entertainers from the Jazz Age. Through more than 200 photographs, Historic Houses of Queens explores the borough’s most notable residences—their architecture, owners, surrounding neighborhoods, peculiarities, and even their fates as some vanished due to financial problems or fires.
A HISTORY OF NEW YORK IN 27 BUILDINGS: THE 400-YEAR UNTOLD STORY OF AN AMERICAN METROPOLIS
by Sam Roberts
Bloomsbury Publishing, October 2019
From the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. From the seven hundred thousand or so buildings in New York, Roberts selects twenty-seven that, in the past four centuries, have been the most emblematic of the city's economic, social, and political evolution.
A GIRL’S LIFE EIGHTY YEARS AGO: SELECTIONS FROM THE LETTERS OF ELIZA SOUTHGATE BOWNE
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1887
Eliza Southgate was from Maine, was well educated, and met Walter Bowne at Saratoga Springs. Eliza and Walter (who later became Mayor of New York City) were married in 1803. She is notable for her letters, which were reprinted as “A Girl’s Life 80 Years Ago: Selections from the Letters of Eliza Bowne” in 1887. Decades after her death, her daughter-in-law, Eliza Rapelye Bowne, resided at the Bowne House for several years.