Us to host this program not only because of the importance of the book and the subject matter but also because the fellow in the library for scholars in residence at the allen Room Research a good deal of the book right here in the library archives, the Archival Holdings on the new york city history are of course that cant include such collections as the record of the history and the collection called new york city miscellaneous 1614 to 1975. [laughter] that is the painstaking work of historians and scholars that bringsch the content of those collections to light and into Public Discourse through meticulously researched books like greater gotham and so we are thrilled to welcome you back to the library to share your research with us and to moderate the conversation, we are honored to have another distinguished historian writer and scholar with the pieces of the new yorker where hes a staff writer he provides a steady stream of intellectual and emotional nourishment to many of us seekin