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I write history, mostly New York related so far, mostly in books of my own and others', but also in anything from magazines and journals to historical signage in city parks. I started writing at Wesleyan, for the student paper and in a grueling non-fiction writing seminar with V.S. Naipaul. After college, I was the captain of a charter sailboat with a past, an awful law student, a licensed hack (out of a Greenwich Village taxi garage), and then, for many years, a radio reporter/writer/editor/producer, mostly with CBS News. In radio, I learned to write short and unlearned narrative. With each book of history, I'm trying to do the narrative thing better. I was born at an edge of the Manhattan street grid, in a hospital since replaced by a hig ...more

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	City on a Grid: How New York Became New York 3.42 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire 3.58 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Water for Gotham 3.68 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not a Gentleman's Work: The Untold Story of a Gruesome Murder at Sea and the Long Road to Truth 2.99 avg rating — 87 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Water-Works: The Architecture and Engineering of the New York City Water Supply by Gina Pollara (Editor), Gerard Koeppel (Contributor), Kevin Bone (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Water for Gotham: A History] [Author: Koeppel, Gerard T.] [August, 2001] by Gerard Koeppel, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The earliest lock gates moved vertically, subjecting them to great pressure and friction. Leonardo’s innovation was paired mitered lock gates forming a V pointed in the direction of the higher water. Water was deflected to the sides when the gates were swung open, and pressure sealed the lock when the gates were closed. Over half a millennium later, canal locks are still built”
― Gerard Koeppel, Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire

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“The earliest of the outraged—Clement Clarke Moore, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Law Olmsted, and others with just two names—saw the grid plan become reality through the 1800s.”
― Gerard Koeppel, City on a Grid: How New York Became New York

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