new york

An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant across the street from the United Nations, and together with a strange group of artists, waitresses, and friends, they await the end of the world.

The author's memoir of growing up white in a predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhood of housing projects on New York's Lower East Side during the 1970s and '80s.

Chronicles the experiences Johanna Grussner had while teaching music at a New York City public school, focusing on how she turned the school's students into a successful gospel chorus.

A collection of writings, including fiction and essays, that combine to present a portrait of New York's Harlem community as it has changed throughout history.

Young Francie Nolan experiences the problems of growing up in a Brooklyn, New York slum.

Chronicles the events surrounding the fire at the Triangle shirtwaist factory which broke out on March 25, 1911, killing more than one hundred factory workers who were trapped after the fire broke out, and discusses how the fire changed the work force in America.

Describes how different streets, alleys, avenues, plazas, parks, and corners got their names.

Contains a collection of color photographs in which Alice Attie documents the people, art, and buildings of Harlem, capturing the traditionally African-American neighborhood at a time of transition from a working-class center of cultural pride to a more gentrified, sanitized community.

Recounts the true story of Celia Cooney, a nineteen-year-old New York laundress whose crime spree made national headlines in 1924.

Examines the murder of twenty-year-old Manhattan cigar salesgirl Mary Rogers in 1841, the troubled life of Edgar Allan Poe, and his treatment of the case in his story "The Mystery of Marie Rog?t.".