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Gotham Gazette's NYC Books: Bookshelf
Articles About Books That Share A Genre Or Topic
New York City's Black History (2/9/2004)
The Harlem Renaissance is often the starting point for discussions about black history in New York City. But African-Americans had been living in New York for three hundred years by the time that waves of southern blacks began to move north after World War One, and new groups of black African and West Indian immigrants continue to bring their own histories and cultures to New York. The variety and richness of black communities in New York has led to an enormous number of books exploring various aspects of black history in New York City.
Best Fiction Books of 2003 from the New York Times Book Review (12/10/2003)
To close 2003, the New York Times compiled a list of best books for the year. Here we select those fiction titles that are specifically about New York City.
Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 from the New York Times Book Review (12/10/2003)
To close 2003, the New York Times compiled a list of best books for the year. Here we select those nonfiction titles that are specifically about New York City.
Books About New York Nightlife (11/11/2003)
New York City clubs have emerged as icons of their eras, the centers of cultural revolutions or the headquarters of the criminal underworld. And the city's nightlife - from the cabarets of the Gay 1890s to Limelight owner Peter Gatien's 1990s drug kingdom - has been described in dozens of books.
Books About Central Park (7/21/2003)
Central Park’s 843 acres -- and the fascinating story of their creation by designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux -- have been the subject of dozens of books.
A Walker's City (4/28/2003)
The simplest form of transportation in New York City – walking – has inspired an annual "saunter" around the entire edge of Manhattan, countless themed walking tours, and scores of poems and essays. An anthology of the literature of walking in New York City
Biographies of Rudy Giuliani (3/28/2003)
The USA Network's new made-for-TV movie Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, is loosely based on Wayne Barrett's muckraking Rudy! An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, one of three critical bios of the former mayor.
Gangs Of New York (12/16/2002)
The movie "Gangs Of New York," directed by Martin Scorcese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day Lewis, has brought renewed attention to the city's long colorful history of criminal gangs, and especially to the Five Points, which historian Edwin Burrows calls "New York's most infamous neighborhood, singled out by generations of reformers and journalists as a hive of nightmarish squalor, violence, disease and crime." (Book list compiled by Gotham Gazette)
Best Books of 2002 from the New York Times Book Review (12/14/2002)
To close 2002, the New York Times compiled a list of best books for the year in several categories including: architecture, art, cooking, gardening, photography, travel and fiction. Here we select those titles that are specifically about New York City.
Local History in Black-and-white (12/9/2002)
With more than two dozen titles specifically on New York City, Arcadia Publishing, which specializes in books on local U.S. history, offers titles that focus on neighborhoods from Little Italy to Gravesend, take on larger subjects like the Caribbean Americans, New York subways, or the legacy of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Here we present an overview of the collection.
Books About FDNY (11/25/2002)
Spectacular fires have played a huge role in New York City history. Yet curiously, until now books about the New York Fire Department and its history have been rare.
Books About New York City During Wartime (10/28/2002)
Amid talk of going to war with Iraq, historians and curators are looking back at New York City during wartimes past. We've put together a list of books about New York City during wartime -- from the Revolutionary War to World War II.
September 11 Books (9/9/2002)
September 11 has spawned more books than any other single news event in history. Amazon.com lists nearly seven hundred 9/11-related titles in stock. Ingram Book Group, the country's largest book distributor, will release 150 new 9/11 books in the fall of 2002. Want something that strays from the mainstream? The Arts and Culture section of Rebuilding NYC includes a broad array of titles.
Favorite Books About New York (9/25/2000)
New York City librarians, historians and filmmakers list their favorite books about the city.

