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Writer and documentary filmmaker Kym Ragusa describes her racially and culturally mixed heritage, growing up in West Harlem in a time when the city was still racially divided, and the love of both grandmothers who gave her the love and stability to succeed.

Describes the creation of the World Trade Center; the reception of the twin towers by the architecture world and by New Yorkers; the Center's symbolism of achievement and power; and a day in the life of the Center.

Sadie, an imaginative young Dominican American, relates her experiences growing up in her grandmother's brownstone house in Harlem.

Poet Kenneth Koch describes his methods for teaching children how to create poems, and shares examples and anecdotes from his experiences teaching in a Manhattan public school.

Collects four hundred of photographer Brandon Stanton's portraits of people in New York City.

Michael Benfante, hailed as a hero after helping carry a wheelchair-bound woman from the sixty-eighth floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, to the safety of a waiting ambulance, discusses his life in the days leading to the terrorist attack, the events of 9/11, and the emotional and psychological challenges he has faced since the tragedy.

A collection of letters in which the family members of one hundred victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks tell their loved ones how much they are missed and how their lives have changed in the ten years since that day.

Examines the psychological and physical stories of people both directly and indirectly involved with Ground Zero on 9/11 and in the effort to rescue survivors and put out the fires that lasted one hundred days after the attacks.

The author describes how he lived as a child in two worlds: on the one hand in affluent America, and on the other, a dark world with refugee parents who could not forget what they lost in the Holocaust.

Thirty-something New Yorker, Jane Hayes, who is obsessed with Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice," is gifted a vacation to an estate where fans are transported back in time and actors pretend to be characters from Austen novels; and things get confusing when she blurs the line between fiction and reality by becoming attracted to two of the actors.