City-Pick: New York

New York is one of the most exciting and pulsating cities on earth. Here a truly dazzling selection of writers celebrate the richness and diversity of this amazing metropolis.

F Scott Fitzgerald journeys up Fifth Avenue
Bob Dylan arrives in Greenwich Village
Alistair Cooke looks out over Central Park
David Byrne does the Five Boro Bike Tour
Edmund White finds a city of freedoms
Jan Morris recalls Manhattan 1945
Ian Frazier hears it for Brooklyn
Teju Cole encounters the Statue of Liberty
John Dos Passos pities the poor immigrant
... and much, much more.

Other cities in the series include Berlin, Paris, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Venice, Istanbul and St Petersburg.