Author Talk with Davida Siwisa James

Join NYPL at the Hamilton Grange Library for a discussion with Davida Siwisa James, as she talks about her book "Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill : Alexander Hamilton's Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries".

This historical nonfiction book explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around our historic landmark neighborhood in West Harlem. This is the neighborhood where Alexander Hamilton built his country home, George Gershwin wrote his first hit, a young Norman Rockwell discovered he liked to draw, and Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man. Through words and pictures, Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill traces the transition of this picturesque section of Harlem from lush farmland in the early 1600s to its modern-day growth as a unique Manhattan neighborhood highlighted by stunning architecture, Harlem Renaissance gatherings, and the famous residents who called it home.

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