Research Guides: Jack Brause Library for Real Estate: Brause Collection

Library Collection

The Jack Brause Library includes several thousand volumes devoted to real estate, approximately 100 current print journal subscriptions, and a variety of course reserve materials that support our instructors and students at Midtown Center.

Our collection is not open for in-person browsing. All items in our collection can be found by searching the NYU Library Catalog (see below) and filtering results to show resources by library: "NYU Real Estate."
Many additional real estate resources are available electronically via our Real Estate research guide.
The Library is always expanding and enhancing our collection through the addition of books, journals, and databases in alignment with SPS's programs. Please don't hesitate to suggest a purchase.

Search the NYU Libraries Catalog

Search for books, journals, videos, etc across NYU's libraries. On the results page, limit the "Library" filter to "NYU Real Estate" if you wish to browse only Brause collections.

Books & More

New Print Books

The AFIRE Guide to U. S. Real Estate Investing, Fourth Edition: What Global Investors Need to Know about Commercial Real Estate Acquisition, Management, and Disposition by Will McIntosh (Editor)
Call Number: HD255 .A59 2024
ISBN: 9781265413460
Publication Date: 2024
Invest responsibly and generate long-term value with the definitive guide to U.S. real estate investing written specifically for non-U.S. investors
Building the 21st Century City Through Public-Private Partnerships by Stephen Buckman (Editor)
Call Number: HT371 .B775 2024
ISBN: 9781032120829
Publication Date: 2023
This book introduces the fundamentals of this unique form of cross-sector collaboration. From understanding the responsibilities of government and industry partners to stewardship of taxpayer dollars, this guide empowers developers to deliver successful commercial, leisure, and industrial projects neither could undertake on their own.
Creating the Hudson River Park by Tom Fox
Call Number: F128.65.H83 F69 2024
ISBN: 9781978814011
Publication Date: 2024
The 4-mile-long, 550-acre Hudson River Park is nearing completion and is the largest park built in Manhattan since Central Park opened more than 150 years ago. It has transformed a derelict waterfront, protected the Hudson River estuary, preserved commercial maritime activities, created new recreational opportunities for millions of New Yorkers, enhanced tourism, stimulated redevelopment in adjacent neighborhoods, and set a precedent for waterfront redevelopment. The Park attracts seventeen million visitors annually. Creating the Hudson River Park is a first-person story of how this park came to be. Working together over three decades, community groups, civic and environmental organizations, labor, the real estate and business community, government agencies, and elected officials won a historic victory for environmental preservation, the use and enjoyment of the Hudson River, and urban redevelopment.
Resilient Building Retrofits by Sarah Sayce (Editor); Sara Wilkinson (Editor); Gillian Armstrong (Editor); Samantha Organ (Editor)
Call Number: TH3401 .R48 2023
ISBN: 9780367903558
Publication Date: 2022
This radical book aims to inject new insight and urgency into the discourse on the retrofitting of commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency.
Streetfight: A Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan; Seth Solomonow
Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets safer and more vibrant.
Vital Little Plans by Jane Jacobs
An essential companion to Jacobs’s other books on urbanism, economics, politics, and ethics. It offers readers a unique survey of her entire career in forty short pieces that have never been collected in a single volume, from charming and incisive urban vignettes from the 1930s to the raw materials of her two unfinished books of the 2000s, together with introductions and annotations by editors Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring.

Borrowing Policy

Access to our closed-stack collection can be requested in advance via request options in the library catalog. Please contact midtown.library@nyu.edu for guidance.
All circulation notices will be sent to the borrower's NYU email address.
If borrowers fail to return items on multiple occasions, a block will be placed on their Brause Library privileges for the remainder of the semester.
If borrowers accrue unpaid overdue fines and replacement fines on their library account they will not be able to register for classes, receive official transcripts, or participate in graduation. Overdue fines and replacement fines can be paid over the phone (212) 998-2530 or in-person at the Bobst Circulation Desk during open hours.

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