As the title suggests, the town is New York City. The story is written from the perspective of visiting with pre-teen children, one or two at a time over a number of years, from traveling graciously by rail via the 20th-Century Limited to arriving at La Guardia. Informative and well written, sites visited are all around the town and the high drama is the summer trip when the city went totally dark in the Big Blackout of 1977.