In this enthralling new book, Richard Panchyk has compiled a collection of true stories from Long Island’s history sure to befuddle, baffle and bemuse even lifelong residents.

German New York City celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the hundreds of thousands of German immigrants who left the poverty and turmoil of 19th- and 20th-century Europe for the…

Midtown Trash is a unique book that takes a closer look at mid-Manhattan’s garbage–the small and the large, the beautiful and the disgusting, the mundane and the bizarre. The photos…

Long Island s history is filled with fascinating firsts, magnificent mansions and fascinating characters. From Glenn Curtiss, the first pilot to fly a plane on the island, to Earle Ovington…

Celebrated in literature and film as a playground for the rich and famous, Long Island’s North Shore–its Gold Coast–has long had a firm hold on the imaginations of readers, vacationers…

The Long Island community of Westbury was once a small town farming neighborhood . While Brooklyn and other boroughs mushroomed into urban giants, the population of peaceful Westbury hovered at…

How does a city obtain water, gas, and electricity? Where do these services come from? How are they transported? The answer is infrastructure, or the inner, and sometimes invisible, workings…

The concept of New York City’s Midtown has evolved a great deal since the first settlers arrived in the early seventeenth century. The center of town moved steadily north over…