Treasures of New York
Treasures of New York is a documentary series exploring some of New York City's architectural and cultural significance of classic landmarks: The New York Botanical Garden, The Flatiron Building, Hearst Tower, Lincoln Center, Pratt Institute, American Museum of Natural History, the historic Roosevelt House in NYC, and the New York State Capitol building. The series also explores 25 years of the MTA Arts for Transit program, looks at the life and the creative process of NY architect Costas Kondylis, and reveals the rarely told history of five iconic parks in New York City.
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| New York City - wikipedia New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. |
| Great American Railway Journeys Using an 1879 copy of Appleton's Guidebook to the railroads of the United States and Canada, Michael Portillo travels across the United States by train. |
| New York City: A Social History New York City, growing from the small Dutch commercial settlement of New Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century into a bustling multicultural city of more than 8 million and metropolis of more than 18 million by the twentieth century, is a place with many stories. |
| How the Earth Was Made - New York A look at the geologic history of the land modern day New York City sits atop; how Ice Age glaciers carved the rock beneath the metropolis, and its connection to land on the east coast of Africa. |