New York was the first city of the New World, according to Baedeker in his 1909 guide; ‘inferior in population, as also in commercial and financial importance, to London alone among the cities of the globe’; and even more culturally diverse with 35% of its population of four and a half million people ‘foreign born’. Wolff’s New York is a vibrant, confident, even brash, city with a skyline for the new century.
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