Seth Kamil and Eric Wakin are, respectively, the president and chief tour guide of the largest and best-known walking tour company in the United States-Big Onion Walking Tours. They are also the authors of The Big Onion Guide to New York City: Ten Historic Tours, also published by NYU Press. Both live in Brooklyn, NY.Eric Wakin is Chief Tour Guide. Their company conducts more than 1,200 tours of New York City for more than 35,000 people each year. They are both in the Ph.D. program in history at Columbia.

• 1 WALL STREET: The Architecture of Capitalism ? 2 THE LOWER EAST SIDE: Immigrant New York ?? 3 GREENWICH VILLAGE: A Gay and Lesbian History ?? 4 FOUR SQUARES: Union Square, Stuyvesant Square, Gramercy Park, and Madison Square ??? 5 THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE: A Walk from Brooklyn Heights to City Hall 6 CENTRAL PARK: New York City's Largest Work of Art 7 THE UPPER EAST SIDE: Manhattan's "Gold Coast" 8 HISTORIC HARLEM: African American Capital of the Twentieth Century ??? 9 GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: A Garden Cemetery Revisited ??? 10 THE OTHER BOROUGHS: A Driving Tour

"One could scarcely find a more informative and engaging guide than this book, distilled from the award-winning tours developed over the last decade by Big Onion Walking Tours...It is a delight, deeply knowledgeable, presented with wit and style. Would that more historians engage the public so well." (New York History,Spring 2002) "The founders of the acclaimed Big Onion Walking Tours outline 10 historical walks in their home borough, from America's first pencil factory to Bedford-Stuyvesant's beautiful row houses to Coney Island." (San Francisco Chronicle)