A few journalism highlights:
"Law & Order's New York Was Never Real" (Curbed NY, May 8, 2019)
"A Walking Tour of 1949 Greenwich Village" (Curbed, September 4, 2019)
"The Upper West Side’s oldest buildings are posh once more" (New York Post, July 24, 2019)
"The Winding History of Donald Trump's First Major Manhattan Real Estate Project" (Curbed, April 2, 2019)
"Co-op City at 50" (Curbed, December 5, 2018)
"How Wall Street became Wall Street" (Curbed, September 26, 2018)
"How Chicago Almost Stole New York's Title as America's Greatest City" (New York Post, September 17, 2018)
"The Joys of Living in New York's Utopian Planned Communities" (New York Post, December 7, 2017)
"Becoming Frank Lloyd Wright" (Curbed, June 8, 2017)
"There's Never Been a Hotter Time to See Hawaii's Legendary Lava" (New York Post, August 15, 2017)
"Roadtripping Frank Lloyd Wright" (New York Post, March 14, 2017)
"The Fallen Five: The 'Great Theater Massacre" and the War to Remake Times Square" (Curbed, Mar 9, 2017)
"Is the World Ready for Frank Lloyd Wright's Suburban Utopia?" (Curbed, Jan 4, 2017)
"An East Coast tour for die-hard Hamilton fans" (Chicago Tribune, Sep 1, 2016)
"Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses, and the Battle Over LOMEX" (Curbed, May 4, 2016)
"Want to Change 'Politics as Usual'? Make a Viable Multi-party System" (Guardian, Apr 26, 2016)
""People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them." - James Baldwin
James Nevius
THEATER | ARCHITECTURE | HISTORY | TRAVEL | POLITICS | CULTURE | NEW YORK CITY
(sometimes all at once)
I am the author of three books about New York City: Frommer's 24 Great Walks in New York (Wiley), Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City (Free Press/Simon & Schuster), and most recently, Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers (Lyons/Globe Pequot). With my wife and frequent collaborator, I also completely revised Fodor's 25 Best New York in 2016. I also write various articles about travel, American politics and culture, New York City history, architecture, and culture, and have appeared on radio, tv, and in print as an expert on New York's rich past.
I'm also a playwright. My play Murder in the Nth Degree won the first-ever ProArts Playwriting Contest, sponsored by ProArts Playhouse in Kihei, Hawaii. The run of the show is now over, but a performance was filmed, so please stay tuned for information on when that will be available. BREAKING NEWS: Murder in the Nth Degree has won "Best New Play or Musical" in the BroadwayWorld Hawaii regional awards. Enjoy this stellar review of the play from Maui arts TV show, Curtain Call: https://youtu.be/6NmkTcxaNAw