Category: New York City

September 20, 2010

Jonathan Soffer on the Legacy of Ed Koch

Sam Roberts begins his New York Times review of Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City by citing a decade-old survey of scholars, which ranked Koch as the 15th worst mayor in American history. Not too good. But...

September 15, 2010

Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

Benjamin Schwarz’s “Editor’s Choice” in The Atlantic includes a discussion of Jonathan Soffer’s Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City. (The article unexpectedly begins with the “sequel” to The Preppy Handbook and ends with Soffer’s book. Schwarz praises...

September 10, 2010

Jonathan Soffer at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Jonathan Soffer, author of the forthcoming Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City will be on what promises to be an excellent panel at this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 12. Soffer’s panel, “Change Gonna Come:...

August 17, 2010

Jonathan Soffer on Ed Koch's Effort to Fight Corruption

Yesterday’s New York Times blog, the City Room, quoted Jonathan Soffer, author of the forthcoming Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City, about Koch’s newly established organization New York Uprising. The group is dedicated to “to shame politicians...

August 12, 2010

Richard Bulliet on the Mosque at Ground Zero

An article from the new web site, Capital, recently interviewed Richard Bulliet, author of The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization, about the proposed Mosque at Ground Zero. Bulliet admits that when he first heard about the project he thought it might...

July 15, 2010

The Editors of Gastropolis on the Perfect NYC Summer Meal

With summer fully upon us and with the recent publication of Gastropolis: Food and New York City, we were reminded of an interview on Serious Eats with the editors of the book, Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch. The authors were...

July 14, 2010

A Chronology of George Steinbrenner

With yesterday’s news of George Steinbrenner’s death, we thought we would highlight some of the highlights (and lowlights) from his remarkable run as owner of the New York Yankees. The dates and events are taken from The Greater New York...

July 9, 2010

"New York is the most Latin American city in the world."

The above quote from a Daily News article is from Claudio Remeseira, editor of Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook. The article which calls the book “an imposing testimony to the sheer vibrancy of the city’s Hispanic community,” describes the book...

July 1, 2010

Sam Roberts on John V. Lindsay as "America's Mayor"

When we were deciding on the title for our book on John Lindsay, co-published with the Museum of the City of New York, we were concerned that the title America’s Mayor, might cause some confusion. After all, many now think...

June 11, 2010

John V. Lindsay and television

In addition to America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York, a museum exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, there have also been a series of symposiums exploring the Lindsay’s mayoralty and its...

June 2, 2010

The Hispanic New York Project Web site

For those interested in keeping up with and learning more about Latino news and issues in the United States and New York City, the Hispanic New York Project is an excellent resource. The site is edited by Claudio Ivan Remeseira,...

May 14, 2010

America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York — The Exhibit

“Whatever your take on the Lindsay years, this show will both challenge and expand it,” writes Edward Rothstein in his largely positive review in the New York Times of the exhibit “America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of...