ahistoryofnewyork.comPatell and Waterman's HIstory of New York | Being a ... course, companion, blog, and book.

Cyrus R. K. Patell Bryan Waterman Lost New York Select Page Kronos Quartet at NYUAD and NYC by Cyrus | Sep 20, 2015 | Events , Music Bryan and I had the good fortune last week to be able to hear the visionary Kronos Quartet twice each during their week-long residence at NYU Abu Dhabi where we’re presently teaching. The ensemble played at NYUAD Arts Center’s Black Box... And I fell … by Bryan | Nov 22, 2014 | Books , Music The good folks at genius.com asked me to annotate a passage from my 33 1/3 volume on Television’s Marquee Moon. Here’s what I came up with: Read Tehran disco by Bryan | Oct 23, 2014 | Art , Cultural History , Events Friends of our too-long moribund Writing New York site, I hope you’ll come say hello while I’m in town, briefly, to participate in the following event, which draws on a new research project I’ve undertaken re: New York in the Age of Warhol. Andy... Punk at 40 by Bryan | Mar 17, 2014 | Conferences , Events , Music , Neighborhood Scenes In March 1974, a band called Television Lou Reed, 1942-2013 by Bryan | Oct 29, 2013 | Music , People , Writing New York So it’s just about three days since Lou Reed died and I admit I’m kind of holding my breath, waiting to see if he rises from the tomb on the morning of the third day. It’s hard to imagine him as anything other than transformed into a more perfect... Jonathan Lethem Goes to Queens by Cyrus | Oct 19, 2013 | Books Two years ago, we ran a virtual book club Moby-Dick marathon live stream by Bryan | Sep 30, 2013 | Books , Teaching In anticipation of the NYUAD Theater Program and Theater Mitu’s presentation of MD (Or, The Whale) later this week, the Program in Literature and Creative Writing is sponsoring a marathon reading of novel, which the play takes as its inspiration. The reading... In memoriam: Marshall Berman, 1940-2013 by Bryan | Sep 12, 2013 | People , Writing New York One of the great delights of the decade Cyrus and I spent teaching our Writing New York class was the repeated opportunity to screen clips from Ric Burns’s monumental New York: A Documentary Film. Without a doubt, the highlight of that film is — for me, at... Post-9/11 novel: Open City Book Club, part 4 by Bryan | Sep 9, 2013 | Books , Writing New York Today’s installment in our discussion of Teju Cole’s novel comes from guest blogger Martha Nadell, who teaches at Brooklyn College and is at work on a literary history of Brooklyn. The author of a book on image and text in early twentieth-century African... The View from Above: Open City Book Club, Part 3 by Bryan | Sep 4, 2013 | Books , Writing New York Today’s installment in our book club discussion comes from long-time friend-of-the-blog Sunny Stalter, an associate professor in the English Department at Auburn University. Her research examines technology in American literature and culture. Her book,... « Older Entries Search for: Featured Posts Bryan Weighs Anchor Moby-Dick Big Read, Day 32 [Cetology] Moby-Dick Big Read, Day 73 [Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale] Moby-Dick Big Read, Day 81 [The Pequod Meets the Virgin] Our Sites bryanwaterman.org Electra Street NYU English patell dot org PWHNY Facebook Page PWHNY Twitter Feed The Great Whatsit Recent Posts Kronos Quartet at NYUAD and NYC And I fell … Tehran disco Punk at 40 Lou Reed, 1942-2013 Jonathan Lethem Goes to Queens Moby-Dick marathon live stream Recent Comments Punk’s 40th Anniversary Celebrated This Week With Events | My Social List Blog on Punk at 40 Emily Armstrong on Punk at 40 Moby-Dick marathon livestream « The Great Whatsit on Moby-Dick marathon live stream Stephanie Smith-Waterman on Moby-Dick marathon live stream Stephanie Smith-Waterman on In memoriam: Marshall Berman, 1940-2013 Amanda McLoughlin on Cosmopolitan Conversation: Open City Book Club, Part 2 Who Walk In Brooklyn » Blog Archive » Marshall Berman: Introduction to New York Calling on In memoriam: Marshall Berman, 1940-2013 Categories Categories Select Category Architecture Art Books City on Stage Conferences Cultural History Events Exhibitions Fashion Film Food History Lost New York Microblogging Music Neighborhood Scenes Networked New York New York Sports Odds and Ends Out and About People Politics Pop Culture Port of New York Resources Signs of the Times Sports Teaching Television This Day in New York History Uncategorized Writing New York Archives Archives Select Month September 2015 November 2014 October 2014 March 2014 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 Keys to the City AIANY Blog Central Amusing the Zillion An Unamplified Voice Animal New York Ape Shall Not Kill Ape Art Fag City ArtCal ArtSlant Be in Brooklyn Bed-Stuy Banana Behind the Scenes (N-YHS) Bike Map Bitch Cakes Bitch Cakes Commutes Blah Blog Blah Bloggy Boogie Downer Bowery Boogie bowery boys Brokelyn Bronx Bohemian Bronx Latino Bronx Mama Brooklyn Based Brooklyn by Bike Brooklyn Diners Brooklyn Parrots Brooklyn Vegan Brooklynometry Brownstoner Built Manhattan Burn Some Dust Burn Some Dust Blog BushwickBK Castle Garden City Birder City Lore City of Strangers City Room (NYTimes) City Snapshots Civic Center Residents Coalition Colonnade Row Curbed East Village History Project Blog East Village Idiot East Village Podcasts Eating in Translation Emdashes Ephemeral New York EV Grieve Fading Ad Blog Fecal Face NYC Flaming Pablum Forgotten New York Found in Brooklyn Free NYC Fucked in Park Slope Give and Get NYC Gotham Lost and Found Gothamist Gowanus Lounge Greater New York Greenpointers Greenwich Village Daily Photo Harlem Bespoke Harlem Hybrid Historic Districts Council Newsstand Holla Back NYC Hop Stop Hotel Chelsea Blog Hunter-Gatherer I Hate The New Yorker I Shot New York I Spy NYC Idealist in NYC Inside the Apple Inwoodite It Was Her New York John Egan Harp Kinetic Carnival Knickerbocker Village Lens liQcity Little Bytes of the Big Apple Lost City Lower East Side History Project Blog Manhattan User MaNNaHaTTaMaMMa Metroblogging NYC Mommy Poppins Mr. Beller's Neighborhood Municipal Art Society of New York Museum of the City of New York My NYC in Color N-YHS Collections Blog Neither More Nor Less New Netherlands Institute New York Daily Photo New York Hyperlocal New York Lives New York Portraits New York Public Library New York Rocker New York Shitty New York through the Lens New York Yak New-York Historical Society Newtown Pentacle Newyorkette NewYorkology Not for Tourists Now I've Heard Everything NY Art Beat NY Barfly NYC Garden NYC Rhymology NYC Stories NYC The Blog NYC-grid NYU Obscene NYC offManhattan Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn Out My Window NYC Out Walking the Dog Overheard in New York Plain in the City Queens Crap Roosevelt Island 360 Roosevelt Islander Runnin Save the Lower East Side Scouting New York Second Avenue Sagas Second Circuit Blog Sense & the City Shooting Brooklyn Slum Goddess SoHo Memory Project South Street Seaport Museum Staten Island Dump Street Level Streetsblog Strong Buzz Stupefaction Subway Blogger Tenement Museum Blog The Big Apple The Girl Who Ate Everything The Masterpiece Next Door The Met Everyday The New York Nobody Sings The New Yorker The Origin of Species The Q Note the skint Today in NYC History Untapped ...