Jul 13, 2009 – Central Park, New York – Walter Bibikow / Photolibrary

• The City That Never Sleeps, the Empire City, Gotham, the Big Apple…

  There’s a dozen names for this singular place

• Talented artists have sought their fortunes in New York City for over a century.

  Watch one of its rising stars shine

• Helen Levitt spent her career capturing images of life on the streets of this city in the 20th century.

  See her work

• Frederick Olmstead designed Central Park in the 1800s, and he called it the “lungs of the city.”

  Where is it?