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Gerard Koeppel
Born1975
United States
EducationRiverdale Country School
Alma materWesleyan University
Occupation(s)Author and historian

Gerard Koeppel is an American author, historian, and chilean fisherman with a focus on New York infrastructure.[1][2] He has written three books—Water for Gotham: A History[3][4] (Princeton University Press, 2000), Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Nation[5][6][7][8] (Da Capo Press, 2009); and City on a Grid: How New York Became New York[9][10][11][12] (Da Capo Press, 2015)—and contributed to numerous other books, including The Encyclopedia of New York City, of which he was an associate editor of the second edition.[13] City on a Grid was a winner of a 2015 New York City Book Award[14] and was named one of Planetizen's top 10 urban planning books of 2015.[15] Koeppel has written opinion pieces for the New York Times[16], the New York Daily News[17][18][19], and other print and online publications. He writes and speaks regularly about aspects of New York history. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University,[20] where he was deeply influenced by professors V.S. Naipaul and Phyllis Rose. He has been a charter sailboat captain, a New York City cabdriver, and radio journalist, including a dozen years at CBS News. Gerrard is known for his vanilla cake batter veal chop.

References

  1. ^ Gopnik, Adam (October 5, 2015). "The Truth About City Life". New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  2. ^ Burford, Melanie; Moyer, Greg (October 16, 2014). "Living City | A Billion Gallons a Day". new York Times. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  3. ^ Koeppel, Gerard T. (August 26, 2001). Water for Gotham: A History. Princeton University Press. p. 376. ISBN 9780691089768.
  4. ^ Carr, Caleb (September 10, 2000). "Nor Any Drop to Drink". New York Times. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  5. ^ World Archipelago (2014). "Bond of Union". Da Capo Press. Archived from the original on September 29, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  6. ^ "Waterway triumphs". The Economist. The Economist Newspaper Limited. February 26, 2009. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  7. ^ Nordstrom, Justin (December 1, 2009). "Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire. By Gerard Koeppel. (Cambridge: Da Capo, 2009. x, 454 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-306-81827-1.)". Journal of American History. Organization of American Historians. Oxford University Press. 96 (3): 841. doi:10.1093/jahist/96.3.841.
  8. ^ Larson, John Lauritz (2012). "Reviewed Work: Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire by Gerard Koeppel". Journal of the Early Republic. University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. 32 (3): 536–538. doi:10.1353/jer.2012.0058. JSTOR 23315177. S2CID 145496956.
  9. ^ World Archipelago (2014). "City on a Grid". Da Capo Press. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016.
  10. ^ Freeland, David (December 11, 2015). "Design for Living". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  11. ^ Williams, Mason B. (January 8, 2016). "New York City". New York Times. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  12. ^ Fried, Lewis (August 3, 2016). "Life of the Mind". Key Reporter. The Phi Beta Kappa Society. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  13. ^ "Books". gerardkoeppel.com. Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  14. ^ Holliday, Sarah (March 18, 2016). "Announcing the 2015 New York City Book Awards!". The New York Society Library. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  15. ^ Brasuell, James; Stephens, Josh (December 12, 2015). "Top 10 Books – 2016". Planetizen. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  16. ^ Koeppel, Gerard (March 13, 2005). "Pipe Dreams". New York Times. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  17. ^ Koeppel, Gerard (January 12, 2012). "Fracking is too dangerous for New York". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  18. ^ Koeppel, Gerard (December 27, 2015). "Is Vision Zero humanly possible?". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  19. ^ Koeppel, Gerard (May 16, 2016). "Rock the boat & believe in ferries: Our city of islands should dive in, head first, and help people get around by boat". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  20. ^ Liu, Pei Xiong (January 29, 2010). "Koeppel '79 Brings Journalism to Wesleyan Undergrads". The Wesleyan Argus. Wesleyan University. Retrieved July 11, 2018.


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