Books from Empire State Editions

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  Raised by the Church: Growing up in New York City's Catholic OrphanagesEdward Rohs
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  Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York
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  A Dancer in the Revolution: Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton ClubHoward Eugene Johnson
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  From a Nickel to a Token: The Journey from Board of Transportation to MTAAndrew J. Sparberg
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  Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960sMark Naison
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  Walking New York: Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju ColeStephen Miller
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  The Rat That Got Away: A Bronx MemoirAllen Jones
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  The Routes Not Taken: A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway SystemJoseph B. Raskin
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  Only in New York : An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating and Irrepressible City: An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible CitySam Roberts
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  A Worldly Affair : New York, the United Nations and the Story Behind Their Unlikely Bond: New York, the United Nations, and the Story Behind Their Unlikely BondPamela Hanlon
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  City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, QueensR. Scott Hanson
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  When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story about Race in America's Cities and UniversitiesSharon Egretta Sutton
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  The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That WayColin Davey
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  Lady Liberty: An Illustrated History of America's Most Storied WomanJoan Marans Dims
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  The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped ItMatthew Spady
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  Angels of Mercy: White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan AsylumWilliam Seraile
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  Heartbeats in the Muck: The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York HarborJohn Waldman
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  Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New YorkPhillip Deery
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  Fighting Authoritarianism: American Youth Activism in the 1930sBritt Haas
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  Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. BakerRon Howell
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  Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham
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  Sacred Shelter: 13 Journeys of Homelessness and Healing
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  Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyismAndrew Feffer
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  Fifth Avenue Famous: The Extraordinary Story of Music at St. Patrick's CathedralSalvatore Basile
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  The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico: Neil Connolly's Priesthood in the South BronxAngel Garcia