New Yorkers

Over the last 20 years New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: terrorist attack blackout hurricane recession pandemic. New Yorkers is a grand portrait of the irrepressible city and a hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people. Craig Taylor spent years meeting New Yorkers - rich and poor old and young native and immigrant - and getting them to share indelible true tales. Here are the voices of those who propel the city each day - subway conductor nurse bodega cashier electrician who keeps the lights on at the top of the Empire State Building - as well as unforgettable glimpses of the city from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade by a balloon handler to the Statue of Liberty by one of its security guards.

New Yorkers captures the strength of the city that - no matter what it goes through - dares call itself the greatest in the world.