Richard Kopley, distinguished professor of literature at Penn State DuBois, author of Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries, on the writer's cottage in Fordham, the Bronx.

Barbara Christen, author of Cass Gilbert, Life and Work, on Brooklyn Army Terminal, the military-site-turned-manufacturing-complex in Sunset Park, designed by the famous architect.

Andrea Frohne, author of The African Burial Ground in New York City, on the site containing the remains of 20,000 slaves in lower Manhattan

Kathleen Murphy Skolnik, co-author of The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meière, on the lobby of the AT&T Long Distance Building in Tribeca

Eric Dregni, author of Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America, on Scandinavia House in Murray Hill.

Francis Morrone, the noted architectural historian, author of eleven books, on the Institute of Classical Art and Architecture in Midtown.

Angela Kane, professor of dance at the University of Michigan and the forthcoming author of the first critical study of Paul Taylor, on the famous choreographer’s studio in the Lower East Side.

Martin Melosi, author of the forthcoming Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City, on the infamous landfill-turned-park in Staten Island

Amy Starecheski, author of Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City, on Bullet Space in the Lower East Side

Mark R. Wilson, author of Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II and The Business of Civil War, on the Brooklyn Navy Yard.