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Cover of Devil's Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery

Devil’s Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery

Alice Sparberg Alexiou

Essay

The History Behind a New York City Subway Beauty Pageant

Susie Orman Schnall

July 16, 2018

Cover of The Right Thing to Do at the Time

The Right Thing to Do at the Time

Essay

The Star Around My Neck

Piper Weiss

April 11, 2018

Cover of The Subway Girls

The Subway Girls

Susie Orman Schnall

Cover of The Knish War on Rivington Street

The Knish War on Rivington Street

Joanne Oppenheim; Jon Davis, illus.

Essay

Fiction and Physics

Carol Zoref

October 13, 2017

Cover of Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

Essay

Longing for New York

Hannah Lillith Assadi

July 5, 2017

Essay

The Poet of Thompson Street

Joseph Helmreich

March 15, 2017

Cover of City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

Cover of Jack's Wife Freda: Cooking From New York's West Village

Jack’s Wife Freda: Cooking From New York’s West Village

Dean Jenklowitz, Maya Jenklowitz, Julia Jaksic

Cover of The Jews of Harlem

The Jews of Harlem

Jeffrey S. Gurock

Essay

A Nazi Meeting at Madison Square Garden

Earlier this week, Ezra Glinter wrote about the research behind his anthology Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from The…

Ezra Glinter

November 2, 2016

Essay

Bringing a Taste of the Old World(s) to Sunny California

Together with Liz Alpern, Jeffrey Yoskowitz is both co-founder of The Gefilteria and co-author of The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods. With the…

Jeffrey Yoskowitz

September 15, 2016

Cover of New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway

New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway