New York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she�s been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered�all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, business, society, and culture. Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Teresa Carpenter, a lifelong diary enthusiast, scoured the archives of libraries, historical societies, and private estates to assemble here an almost holographic view of this iconic metropolis. Starting on January 1 and traveling day by day through the year, these journal entries are selected from four centuries of writing�from the early 1600s to the present�allowing New York natives and visitors, writers and artists, thinkers and bloggers, to reach across time and share vivid and compelling snapshots of life in the Capital of the World. �Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I�d never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here!��Edward Robb Ellis, May 22, 1947�My experience is that a man cannot go anywhere in New York in an hour. The distances are too great�you must have another day to it. If you have got six things to do, you have got to take six days to do them in.��Mark Twain, February 2, 1867�A Peregrine falcon just flew past my window.��Johnny/Quipu Blogspot, February 5, 2003�I had a lot of dates but decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.��Andy Warhol, March 11, 1978�At ten we have Orders to march up the River for Mount-Washington. Adieu, New-York; perhaps forever!��Philip Vickers Fithian, September 3, 1776New York Diaries reveals intimate, whimsical, profound, sobering, and indelible reflections on such historical moments as President Washington�s first State of the Union address, the death of Abraham Lincoln, the sinking of the Titanic, the end of World War II�even the first incursion of Europeans into the city�s Upper Bay on September 11, 1609, a presage to our country�s greatest catastrophe nearly four hundred years later. Featuring familiar faces and fascinating unknowns, these pages provide a rich mosaic that is uniquely New York.With excerpts from the writing of Sherwood Anderson � William H. Bell � Albert Camus � Chad the Minx � No�l Coward � Dorothy Day � John Dos Passos � Thomas Edison � Allen Ginsberg � William B. Gould � Keith Haring � Henry Hudson � Anne Morrow Lindbergh � Judith Malina � H. L. Mencken � John Cameron Mitchell � Joyce Carol Oates � Eugene O�Neill � Philippe Petit � Edgar Allan Poe � Theodore Roosevelt � Elizabeth Cady Stanton � William Steinway � Alexis de Tocqueville � Mark Twain � Gertrude Vanderbilt � Andy Warhol � George Washington � Kurt Weill � Walt Whitman � and many others.