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A seasoned medical technician and union leader tells the story of New York City's darkest days during one of the greatest challenges the city's medical first responders have ever faced--the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the early days of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, Pura Belpre, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta.

Shy, eleven-year-old Veronica Louise Morgan of New York City is not happy about having to attend Randolf School for Girls, but by the end of her first year she not only has some new friends, she may have finally convinced her parents that she is ready to own a dog.

Twenty-eight-year-old Maibelle returns to her home in New York's Chinatown searching for her identity and hoping to unravel the mystery behind family lies.

Examines the efforts of City College of New York, a 150-year-old institution whose mission is to provide higher education to the urban poor.

The authors offer their perspective on New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's role before, during, and after the September 11 attacks, and maintain that his administration was too preoccupied with other pet projects to take the possibility of terrorist activity seriously.

A poem celebrating the people, sights and sounds of Harlem.

A biography of Fiorello La Guardia who started his political career in the House of Representatives before gaining national fame as the mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945.