New York: Portrait of a City, by Reuel Golden

From the Brooklyn Bridge to Ellis Island, the Lower East Side to art deco skyscrapers, this beautiful book captures New York in all its contradiction, energy, and complexity. Spanning the city's most defining eras and neighbourhoods — Central Park to Coney Island, the chaos of Times Square to the grandeur of its skyline — the book celebrates not just the architecture, culture, and ethnic diversity that define the metropolis, but the indomitable spirit of the New Yorkers who built it.