“This collection reveals an enduring New York with tough, zany, heartbreaking stories of these two women and all their fellow New Yorkers that capture the small details and great big soul of the city we love.”

—Carola Dibbell, author of The Only Ones (an Oprah Magazine Favorite Book of the Year, 2015)

“Be prepared to laugh, cry, smile to yourself in recognition, and be overwhelmed by the lyrical language and the moving photos. It is the story of a New York childhood on the Lower East Side. It is the story of the pain of a mother’s decline. It is the story of Her New York and once you read its sights, sounds and insights, it will be Your New York too.”

—Deborah Edel, cofounder, Lesbian Herstory Archives

“What’s it like to lose a cherished family member to old age and creeping dementia? What is it like to live in Manhattan and watch as the city of your youth also disappears as it becomes the primary province of the thoughtlessly rich? In It Was Her New York, C.O. Moed reveals her life and her mother’s final years as she simultaneously paints the city with biting wit and a heartrending brush of memories so fresh and full of love and pain that you want to go to Coney Island with her right now.”

—David Leaf (www.leafprod.com), Peabody and WGAW award-winning writer, director, and producer of The U.S. vs John Lennon, The Night James Brown Saved Boston, Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson & the Story of SMiLE, UCLA professor and the author of God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys & The California Myth

2024 Booklife Editor’s Pick2024 Finalist, LGBTQ+ Nonfiction, International Book Awards2024 Gold Winner, Nonfiction, Literary Titan Book Award2024 Judge’s Pick, Firebird Book Award1st Place, Outstanding Creator Award for Grief and Coping / TraumaHonorable Mention, Biography / Autobiography, London Book Festival2024 Finalist, Global Book Award