“New York City has always intrigued me,” writes ... understanding of how the city grew and described itself over the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century. When you get into ...

The film recounts the travel adventures of a young blacksmith's apprentice in the early 1840s as he embarks on a journey from his village in Eastern New York to join his family in Illinois.

That childhood obsession with a vanished past propels the Gangs of New York, Scorsese’s epic evocation of the city’s brutal, colorful underworld in the first half of the 19th century.