Skip Rozin is a journalist with 50 years of experience, on staff and as a freelance reporter, in wide-ranging roles. Along the way he has written four books, including One Step From Glory about athletes on the fringe of professional sports (1979; Simon & Schuster) and The Name of the Game; The Business of Sports (1994; John Wiley & Sons). From 1986 until 1990 he edited The Hunter’s Whistle, a newspaper about gun dogs for The American Kennel Club; from 1997 until 2000 he worked as a writer and television producer for ESPN’s SportsCentury series.

Rozin’s travel articles ran in The New York Times from 1976 through 1985 and the Washington Post from 1984 through 1990. He has also worked as a reporter in the field for Time Magazine. His general readership articles, covering such subjects as the use of anabolic steroids, strip mining in Eastern Kentucky, the devilish behavior of coffee vending machines and raising triplets have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Harpers, Parents, Audubon, BusinessWeek and more than a dozen anthologies. (Photo by Debra Rozin)

Joan Goldberg — by Jordan Renzi

This space is pleased to feature the work of another storyteller, singer-songwriter Jordan Renzi. Jordan took the elements of Skip Rozin’s 1968 encounter with the U.S. Army—portrayed in The View From Apartment Four—and turned it into a song, appropriately titled, “Joan Goldberg,” who is the protagonist in that melodrama. Through Jordan’s generosity, you can listen to her song by clicking here. (© 2016 Jordan Renzi)

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The View from Apartment Four

Welcome to the most western block of 77th Street in New York City, to a second-floor front apartment that, if you lean just right, offers that prized real estate attraction, a glimpse of the Hudson River.

This book invites you to turn in the opposite direction for a more profound perspective of urban life—the dramatic changes in the Upper West Side from a 1960s neighborhood of friendly shops and affordable restaurants to the latest hot destination in the new millennium, competing with Tribeca and SoHo and their high-priced meals and exorbitant rents. 

The View from Apartment Four focuses on the impact of these changes on the writer as he goes from being single to the married father of four, then joins those other New Yorkers forced to leave the city by taking on adult responsibilities avoided in youth. 

The book is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and bookstores nationwide