[1] According to Barbara Weinstein, NYU's History department chair, Walkowitz's well-celebrated New York City: A Social History course "has been one of the most consistently attractive offerings" by the department.
[2] It is featured as one of NYU Open Education's courses available for free streaming.
[3] Another course he offers, Walking New York, was rated by the student newspaper NYU Local as one of the "semester's best classes" across the college.
His wife, Judith, is a professor of British History at Johns Hopkins University.
He directed or co-directed The Molders of Troy (1980), Public History Today (1990), and Perestroika From Below (1991).