The New York City Book Awards 2006
Award for Social History
Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street by Andrew S. Dolkart (University of Virginia Press)
Award for Architecture
Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York by Jewel Stern and John A. Stuart (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Award for Art
Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School by Rebecca Zurier (University of California Press)
The 2006-2007 Book Awards Jury
Constance Rogers Roosevelt, chair; Lucienne Bloch, Barbara Cohen, Jules Cohn, Joan K. Davidson, Ellen Feldman, Roger Pasquier, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Daniel M. Rossner, Meg Wolitzer
The awards presentation, hosted by Mike Wallace, took place May 3, 2007.
Ceremony host Mike Wallace, co-author of Gotham
John A. Stuart and Jewel Stern speak about their winning book Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect
Juror Elizabeth Barlow Rogers commends Rebecca Zurier for Picturing the City.
Rebecca Zurier accepts the award for Picturing the City.
Photographs by David Ortiz.
