BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2015 – 2016

Eric K. Washington

For a biography of James H. Williams

Eric K. Washington is an independent historian and the author of Manhattanville: Old Heart of West Harlem, which prompted an exhibition at City College, CUNY, where he has taught in the Adult and Continuing Education program. Washington received the Municipal Art Society’s 2010 MASterworks Award for his interpretive signage in West Harlem Piers Park, and he is a fellow in Columbia University’s Community Scholars Program. His articles, talks and tours on Upper Manhattan have appeared in numerous print, online, podium and curbside forums, and he is featured prominently in Phillip Lopate’s Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan, and Jonathan R. Wynn’s The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York. As a Leon Levy fellow he worked on a biography of James H. Williams, the former chief porter or “Red Cap” of Grand Central Terminal, published by Liveright / W.W. Norton & Company.