Prior to publication in book form, Robert A. Caro’s The Power Broker was serialized in The New Yorker. The original New Yorker articles are posted here.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
August 2024
Walt Whitman, ‘Give Me the Splendid Silient Sun’
The last page (37): that is the Manhattan I know and love.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
July 2024
— posted by Roger W. Smith
June 2024
Johannes Vingboons, view of New Amsterdam (1644)
David Johnson. Bowling Green, New York City (1868)
Anthony Quintano. Manhattan skyline in downtown New York City (2014)
— posted by Roger W. Smith
June 8, 2024
One of New York City’s best kept secrets.
photographs by Roger W. Smith
photographs by Roger W Smith
posted May 2024
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— posted by Roger W. Smith
April 15, 2024
taking the ferry (Arthur Henry)
Posted here:
an excerpt from Lodgings in Town
by Arthur Henry
New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1905
Arthur Henry was a friend of and collaborator with Theodore Dreiser.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
See Word document below, containing an excerpt from:
Elizabeth Barlow
“The Campfires of Inwood Hill”
IN The Forests and Wetlands of New York City (Little, Brown and Company, 1969)
Elizabeth Barlow, Inwood Hiil Park
photographs by Roger W. Smith
— posted by Roger W. Smith
April 2024
New Yorkers may enjoy a post on my Whitman site about Walt Whitman’s New York jaunts:
— Roger W. Smith
December 2023
Roger Smith's New York 