2013
The Cooper-Hewitt Dynasty of New York
2012
EAST, IN EDEN: WILLIAM NIBLO AND HIS PLEASURE GARDEN OF YORE
Hovels or Holes? Notes on the First Dutch Houses on Manhattan
Notes on 19th Century City Lot Sizes
HELL GATE: NAMES OF FEAR, FEAR OF NAMES
NOTES ON THE MANHATTAN PURCHASE
Notes on the Deforestation of Manhattan Island
2011
New York’s Vanishing Visionary: The Quiet Mysteries of Charles B. Stover (Excerpts)
She’s Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn
George Maciunas: The Father of SoHo
A Little Pre-History of the Manhattan Grid
The Anarchist Bastard: Growing Up Italian in America
The Man Who Saved New York: Hugh Carey and the Great Fiscal Crisis of 1975
2010
An Afternoon at Blackwell’s Light — by Michael Nichols
A True Story: A Cuban in New York
Arsenic and Clam Chowder: Murder in Gilded Age New York
Leadership and the “Ground Zero Mosque”
It Was a Vast And Fiendish Plot: The Confederate Attack on New York City
Pulitzer Remembered as a Man of Peace not of War
My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson
2009
Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure
A Conceptual Artist Looks at Jewish Cemeteries.
Movable Churches: Shifting Religions and Adaptive Reuse in Gravesend, Brooklyn
The Saw-kill and the Making of Dutch Colonial Manhattan
On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City
A Schematic or a Geographic Subway Map?
Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York
The Perils of Pearl Street – And A Taste of the Dangers of Wall Street: 1834-2009
2008
New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Art, Literature, and Photography
The New York World’s Fair Legacy
Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem
The Rise and Decline of New York City’s Third Avenue Elevated Train Line
Finding Numina in a Remote Corner of New York City
The Making of Fulton Market: A test of Public Property in the City of New York
A Cold War Atlantis – A Boyhood Uptown
The Streets Are Still Part of Bronx Hip Hop
2007
Living Off the Grid in New York City
The Crisis of African American and Latino Male Youth: A Bronx Perspective