Clifford Browder

Whose funeral caused an all-day riot, which hotel suicides should avoid, Sherpas and Gypsies, witches, hustlers, cons -- these are some of the things that readers of this New York City memoir will learn about, along with bits of history and weird facts to surprise visitors and residents alike. P...

New York, 1860s. Junius Fox, an educated young black man, dreams of living in and even possessing a brownstone, but brownstones are where the prejudiced white gentry live who run the city. Junius lives in one by becoming the butler in the brownstone of the notorious Madame Ida, who runs the fanc...

Biographical sketches of colorful people, some remembered and some forgotten, who lived or died in the sometimes wild, sometimes crazy, but profoundly creative city of New York. Among them are Cardinal Spellman (was he or wasn't he?), attack-dog lawyer Roy Cohn, Anais Nin (with two husbands), ...