About

David J. Goodwin is an author, historian, and public speaker and he was a Frederick Lewis Allen Room scholar at the New York Public Library from 2020 to 2023. He is a past commissioner and chairperson of the Jersey City Historic Preservation Commission and a former Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy board member. His first book, Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street, received the J. Owen Grundy History Award in 2018. He has contributed to Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, The Metropole, The Providence Journal, and Urban Archive and he has spoken widely on artists, writers, cities, and culture.