The Kennedys' New York

For the first time, The Kennedys' New York: American Royalty in the Greatest City in the World reveals how New York City played a critical role in the Kennedy family saga. Through exhaustive research, the book will present readers with a wealth of new and often surprising facts about America’s most fascinating family while explaining in detail how the time they spent in New York shaped the course of their lives.

The Kennedys' New York provides readers with a guidebook to the places that played a crucial role in this great American story. The Kennedys' New York takes readers to the locations where history happened. Each place has a story to tell, giving readers a unique perspective on the Kennedy family’s history in New York, their chosen home.

In The Kennedys' New York, readers will discover:

- The small theater where, in 1985, John Jr. acted in a play with a plot that eerily anticipated his tragic 1999 airplane accident.

- The doctor’s office on W. 16th St. where JFK would finally have his back pain eased, allowing him to endure the rigors of the 1960 campaign and the presidency.

- The New York hospital where JFK nearly died in 1954 and another hospital to which he was repeatedly – and secretly - admitted a few years later.

- The Upper East Side hotel at which JFK said a final goodbye to his young paramour in November of 1963, which would also be the site of John Jr.’s secret meeting with Princess Diana decades later.

- The midtown theater where Jackie viewed the X-rated film I Am Curious Yellow in 1969.

- The restaurant on West 51st St. where John Jr. ate his last meal.

- The private club to which JFK went after ditching his secret service detail while president one night in 1963, later grabbing a taxi back to his hotel!

- The Greenwich Village club at which Bobby Kennedy saw the Velvet Underground perform.

- The two downtown New York apartment buildings – both of which (unlike her marital home) had doormen - where Carolynn Bessette lived in anonymity before her marriage.

No reader, even those well versed in Kennedy literature, will finish The Kennedys' New York without learning new and unexpected facts about America's most captivating family.

About the Author

Tim English has published four books: Sounds Like Teen Spirit: Stolen Melodies, Ripped-off Riffs, and the Secret History of Rock and Roll, two editions 2006 and 2016 (the winner of Independent Publisher’s Bronze Medal Award); Popology: The Music of the Era in the Lives of Four Icons of the 1960s, (JFK, RFK, MLK and Merton), 2013; and John Lennon: 1980 Playlist, 2020.

His writing has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, and on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show. He has done well over 1,000 promotional television and radio interviews, including appearances on NPR’s All Things Considered and BBC Radio 2, where he’s appeared over 100 times and he has done TV interviews with WGN Chicago, KRON San Francisco, WNBC-TV New York, Fox News, KTVU San Francisco, and Connecticut Public Television. Since 2021 he has contributed a weekly segment to the “Wake” morning show on WFMU in Jersey City.