Esther Crain is a writer and native New Yorker. In 2008 she launched Ephemeral New York, a website that chronicles the city's past through photos, newspaper articles, art, and other artifacts. The site has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Daily News, and Time Out New York.The New-York Historical Society, one of America's pre-eminent cultural institutions, is dedicated to fostering research, presenting history and art exhibitions, and offering public programs that reveal the dynamism of history and its influence on the world of today. Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society's museum is the oldest in New York City.
Crain unspools the story of four decades in crisp prose studded with pictures. --Entertainment Weekly A beguiling, lavishly illustrated book that. . . epitomizes what Ms. Crain calls the city's incredible energy and sense of its own greatness and destiny. --Sam Roberts, The New York Times