Be among the first to browse and download our new sociology catalog!
Be among the first to browse and download our new sociology catalog! Of particular interest is William B. Helmreich’s The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City. Helmreich decided that...
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#WhereInNYC Photo Quiz 4
Who can pinpoint this building near a New York landmark? As featured in: The New York Nobody Knows Walking 6,000 Miles in the City William B. Helmreich Read chapter 1:...
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#WhereInNYC Photo Quiz 4 — solution
We challenged you to identify this building (well really a corner of a building!), hinting that it was near a NYC landmark. There was a very subtle clue in the categories for which the post was tagged....
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#WhereInNYC Photo Quiz 5 — solution
Yesterday we challenged you to put your NYC knowledge to the test and tell us where this picture was taken: Here’s the uncropped version of the picture: This beautiful spot is El Flamboyan Garden...
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Upcoming Warbler Events
Looking for more opportunities to get a little bird-brained? So are Scott Whittle and Tom Stephenson, authors of The Warbler Guide! As November rapidly approaches, the two are gearing up for their next...
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Princeton University Press’s best-selling titles for the last week
These are the best-selling books for the past week. Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian by A. Douglas Stone The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by...
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Obscura Society is Holding a William Helmreich Event #WhereInNYC
The Obscura Society seeks out secret histories, unusual access, and opportunities to explore strange and overlooked places hidden all around us. Having a description like that, it only makes sense that...
View ArticleEmily Apter, Jacques Lezra, and Michael Wood discuss the Dictionary of...
Earlier this week, close to one hundred humanities lovers gathered for a discussion around the Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon with editors Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, and...
View ArticlePresenting our new trailer for The Notebooks of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Brooklyn born Jean-Michel Basquiat (Dec. 22, 1960–Aug. 12, 1988) was one of the most important and fascinating figures in the 1980s New York art scene. Even today, pop culture references to the artist...
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An 816 mile walk in Brooklyn, an interview with William Helmreich
In The Brooklyn Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide, William B. Helmreich draws on the hundreds of conversations he had with residents during his block-by-block journey through all 816 miles of...
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Jerald Podair on the building of Dodger Stadium
This April marks the 55th anniversary of Dodger Stadium’s grand opening. The stadium is well-known in the world of professional sports for its beauty as well as its history, but when Walter O’Malley...
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Sara Blair on How the Other Half Looks
New York City’s Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the “other half,” was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual...
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William B. Helmreich on The Manhattan Nobody Knows
Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City—six-thousand miles in all—to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Now he has re-walked most of Manhattan—721 miles—to write this new,...
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