 From there, she and Eileen moved to New York City, specifically a moldy, one-room basement apartment near Sheridan Square at 14 Gay Street in Greenwich Village, for which she paid $45 a month () The apartment was burgled within the first week of the six months they lived there.The apartment would become the setting of a series of stories in "The New Yorker", later republished in book form as "My Sister Eileen" (1938)..In 1939 McKenney published "Industrial Valley", a then-controversial book about the Akron rubber strike (1932–36).