New York

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New York has had many names -- "the city that never sleeps," "Gotham," the "Big Apple," New Amsterdam, "the Naked City" -- even "that tight little island." It is New York, New York -- the city they had to name twice. It is a city with a past, a city with an architecture all its own, a city that -- like San Francisco, Hong Kong, Copenhagen, and Venice -- is surrounded by water. New York's buildings, streets, people, and history are all here, described in print and captured on film by a small platoon of inspired photographers. Here, eight million stories intertwine in the web of a city populated by wise-guys, tycoons, artists, immigrants, office workers, tradesmen, and aristocrats -- a multicolored, multifaceted kaleidoscope of humanity. This, then, is New York City -- home of tall buildings, ambition, aggressive self-confidence, and abrasive humor: the city where everyone wants to make it -- and anyone can. It has been called the most interesting place in the world. Take a look