The 2011 winners were honored at a ceremony on May 2, 2012. This year's awards included the first presentation of the Hornblower Award, given to an excellent New York City-related book by a first-time author.

Award for History

Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City by Carla L. Peterson (Yale University Press)

Award for Fiction

Open City: A Novel by Teju Cole (Random House)

Hornblower Award

The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York by Suleiman Osman (Oxford University Press)