NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of the City of New York announced the publication of New York at Its Core, a book spanning New York City’s entire 400-plus years of history created to accompany the Museum’s award-winning, critically acclaimed exhibition bearing the same title. New York at Its Core is available at the Museum’s Shop and online at www.shop.mcny.org.

“Since we opened the doors to New York at Its Core last fall, visitor after visitor has demanded – in true New York fashion – to know where they could buy the book version of our signature exhibition,” said Whitney Donhauser, Ronay Menschel Director of the Museum of the City of New York. “Now visitors and all those who love New York City can get their own copy right here in our Museum shop or by visiting our online store. We look forward to our guests being able to take New York at Its Core home with them from now on.”

New York at Its Core takes readers on a whirlwind journey through the 400-year history of the five boroughs to find out how a striving village on the periphery of the Dutch trading empire became the booming metropolis that is today’s capital of the world. Edited by the Museum’s Deputy Director and Chief Curator Sarah Henry, who led the project to create the groundbreaking exhibition, New York at Its Core argues that four defining themes have shaped the city since its inception: money, diversity, density, and creativity.

This lavishly illustrated book features nearly 400 objects and images from the one-of-a-kind exhibition, revealing how these themes evolved and interacted to create the city we know today, a subject of fascination the world over visited by millions of people every year. The volume chronicles the dynamic cycles of crisis and reinvention that have defined the city for centuries and features iconic New Yorkers like the Lenape sachem Penhawitz, Alexander Hamilton, Boss Tweed, Emma Goldman, Fiorello La Guardia, Patti Smith, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and dozens more who played key roles in giving rise to one of the world’s most diverse and densely populated places.

“We have been overjoyed to see this exhibition become a place where people from around the world come to explore our city’s past, celebrate its present, and imagine its future,” said Sarah Henry, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Museum of the City of New York. “The book version translates New York at Its Core and its rich explanation of how New York became New York into print, marking another giant step forward in sharing New York’s story with a global audience.”

New York at Its Core probes the qualities that define New York through two historical galleries that highlight rare artifacts drawn from the Museum’s own collection beyond in dialogue with innovative uses of technology to provide depth, context, and a profoundly moving experience. The exhibition is truly set apart from other attempts to tell the city’s story by the Future City Lab, a first-of-its-kind interactive gallery dedicated to informing visitors where New York stands now and inviting one and all to imagine where it might be headed. New York at Its Core the book provides a sampling of some of the riches on display in the exhibition and allows visitors to continue to explore the city’s past, present, and future outside of the Museum’s walls.