CUNY Academic Commons

The Biltmore Hotel was constructed on 43rd Street and Madison Avenue in 1913 using a steel frame and masonry cladding. It was built across the street from Grand Central Terminal by the New York Central […]

Map of Edith Wharton’s New York (Embed Google Map)

Map of Edith Wharton’s New York (Leaflet Maps Marker)

Michelle Cliff’s Kingston
No Telephone to Heaven, 1987

Jean Rhys’s London
New Year’s Day, 1934

Virginia Woolf’s London
Mrs. Dalloway, 1925

Nella Larsen’s New York
New Year’s Day, 1929

Edith Wharton’s New York
New Year’s Day, 1924

Anzia Yezierska’s New York
New Year’s Day, 1925

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s New Yo […]

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “May Day”
Prologue
First Section

There had been a war fought and won and the great city of the conquering people was crossed with triumphal arches and vivid with thrown […]

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Reading Cities (RC) is a digitally augmented text platform that serves teachers and students of modern literature. At the most basic level, RC acts as an enhancement of print and ebook versions of modernist […]