Description: Takes you on eight fascinating walks along Manhattan's Hudson waterfront, with stops along the way to explore its architecture, infrastructure, and history.
Brief description: William J. Hennessey is an architectural historian and retired art museum Director. He is the author of two architectural guidebooks, Walking Broadway: Thirteen Miles of Architecture and History and Fifth Avenue: From Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park.
Review Quotes:
"As a child, I loved walking wooded paths along the Hudson in upstate New York. Now I relish walking by the Hudson in Riverside Park. William Hennessey has created a wonderful combination of homage to the river, and a detailed description of the architecture that edges it the length of the island. Reading this will enhance anyone's sojourn along what I think of as Manhattan's west coast." -- Peg Breen, President, The New York Landmarks Conservancy
"William Hennessey's informative and entertaining Along the Hudson is a valuable addition to New York's walking tour literature, focusing on the West Side waterfront, a once neglected and now vibrant part of New York City with a rich design history that has been overlooked until now." -- Andrew Scott Dolkart, Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation