To celebrate the quadricentennial of New York and the release of the Museum of the City of New York’s publication, New York 400: A Visual History of America's Greatest City (Running Press, September 2009), this installation presents a selection of paintings, prints, and photographs drawn from the more than 600 images featured in the book.

Focusing on street scenes, many of the works on display have never before been exhibited. These urban views highlight the work and taste of important people in the Museum’s history, among them the founding curator of the Museum’s Prints and Photographs Collection, Grace M. Mayer; significant early donors to the collections such as J. Clarence Davies and the Federal Art Project, Work Projects Administration; and pioneers in the field of documentary photography, including Victor Prevost, the Byron Company, Berenice Abbott, and Jessie Tarbox Beals.

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