On Thursday, December 6 at 7 pm, Book Culture bookstore in New York City will host an evening with Yale University Press author Claudia Gryvatz Copquin. Her new book, The Neighborhoods of Queens, is “one of those books where you can open it to any page and find something interesting,“ according to the New York Observer. Book Culture is located at 536 W. 112th St., New York, NY.

This up-to-date, intimate portrait of the 99 neighborhoods of Queens is a wonderful tribute to the borough’s past history and present diversity. Detailing the history, people, and cultural activities of each neighborhood, the book is generously illustrated with more than 200 photographs, both contemporary and historical, and over 50 new maps that chart the precise neighborhood boundaries.

Claudia Gryvatz Copquin is an award-winning freelance journalist who immigrated to Queens from South America with her family in the late 1960s. She now resides on Long Island.