As a collector of the Dover series of books on NY through the ages, it seems to me that the closer we get to our present time the less interesting the city seems to appear. It maybe because having been in NY on many occasions, the very modern era seems so familiar with nothing new on an architectural or cultural point of view. Maybe that's too unfair. It could be that it is amazing to compare today and what was there at the turn of the 1800/1900s. The change is so obvious, whereas , apart from the clothes, NY seems to be the same as 30/40 years ago.