The Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans into the metropolis we know today and features animated maps and archival photographs, prints, and paintings from the Museum’s collections. Now expanded and updated, the film's final chapter captures the astonishing – if sometimes challenging – transformations the city has experienced in the first decades of the 21st century.
Jake Burton
Director
James Sanders
Writer, Director
Stanley Tucci
Narrator (voice)
Louis Auchincloss
Additional Voices
John Guare
Additional Voices
Pete Hamill
Additional Voices
Vy Higginsen
Additional Voices
Celedonia Jones
Additional Voices
Joe Morton
Additional Voices
Cynthia Nixon
Additional Voices
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