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A tour of the history of New York City, as told through the eyes of a few families. I would have liked more focus on the immigrant plight post 1900 and less on the ultra blue blooded Dutch, but that's just me speaking as the child of immigrants (Am I still allowed to say that even if my grandmother holds a masters and my other set of grandparents own a share of a sailboat?) and a lover of Brooklyn. When I reached the end, I paused and said "And then what happened?" before realizing that the book ended in August of 2009, and that I, in January of 2011, was already living the "and then."