Up in the Old Hotel
Classic New Yorker portraits of the city's saloon-keepers, street preachers and other unforgettable characters.
Books set in East Village & Lower East Side
Tenements, old saloons and the immigrant stories that built the city.
4 books in East Village & Lower East Side
Call It Sleep
A young immigrant boy comes of age in the crowded, noisy Lower East Side of the early 1900s.
Blood, Bones & Butter
How a chef with no formal training ended up running one of the East Village's most beloved restaurants.
Heroic Measures
An older couple tries to sell their walk-up and save their ailing dachshund during one anxious New York weekend.