In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the authorโs stroll around Manhattanโwith the reader arm-in-armโremains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of Americaโs foremost literary figures.ย Here is New Yorkย has been chosen byย The New York Timesย as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. Theย New Yorkerย calls it โthe wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.โ