Brooklyn Tides

Benjamin Heim Shepard is a professor of Human Services at New York City College of Technology, located across the street from Brooklyn Bridge in the epicenter of a rapidly transforming downtown Brooklyn. Much of Shepard's scholarship is based on the ethnographic study of social services and social movements in New York. He is the author/editor of many books, including Rebel Friendships, The Beach Beneath the Streets and From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization.

Mark J. Noonan is professor of English at New York City College of Technology. He is the author of Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893 (Kent State UP, 2010) and co-editor of The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing About New York City (2012). His current book project is entitled City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press.