The 2015-2016 New York City Book Award winners were
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008 by Robin Jaffee Frank (The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art/Yale University Press)
Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire by Shane White (St. Martin's Press)
City on a Grid: How New York Became New York by Gerard Koeppel (Da Capo Press)
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York by Arthur Browne (Beacon Press)
The Hornblower Award for a First Book
Reading Publics: New York City's Public Libraries, 1754-1911 by Tom Glynn (Empire State Editions/Fordham University Press)
Special Citation for Two Iconic New York City Writers
Vivian Gornick
author most recently of The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)
Roger Angell
author most recently of This Old Man: All in Pieces (Doubleday)