With close to 1,500 entries on a fast-paced timeline, and with illustrations from the collections of The Museum of the City of New York, this informative book tells the history of the past five centuries in New York City.

A Short and Remarkable History of New York City tells how New Yorkers behaved and misbehaved, what they wore, how they hawked their cakes and hot corn, built their windmills and subways, became very rich or were desperately poor, were brutalized or exalted. It tells about the City's celebrations, where Captain Kidd went to church, when baseball became the "New York game," and how vast numbers of people came here, changed the City, and were changed themselves.

A Short and Remarkable History of New York City can be read as a story, used for reference, or browsed for fun.