Destination City offers a compilation of brief biographies of people who stayed in New York city for some time but did not live there. If focused on their time in the city, where they live and what they did there with an occasional quote or anecdote.
As a frequent visitor of New York city, I was eager to read this volume in hope to learn something new about a location that I adore. While I can warmly praise the research that was put into this volume, Destination city stays very factual but somewhat dry. You will learn briefly why an individual came to the town, where they stayed, how long and what they did there. Sometimes you will have a quote about what they thought of that time and then you will move one to the other entry.
What I missed was a certain feel of the city. Living in New York in the 19th century, in the 1920’s or the 1980’s was a very different experience. Unfortunately, we are missing that experience here. We sometimes have some short insights but Robert Pingott focused on the life he wished to present. I had the strange feeling that New York was missing in a book about New York.
That said, I will keep coming back to this book as a reference. Reading the entries of the people that I admire to add pins on my map for my next excursions, wondering what they felt as I walked the street they walked before.

Am a huge fan of anything to do with New York so was delighted to read this book. There were many different famous people from all walks of life,many I hadn't heard of and many I did know. I could visualise many of the streets mentioned and the book even brought a smile to my face when you read about how much things cost back in the day.
Some of the information about certain people was quite a surprise and felt I learnt a !ot. I would of given five stars but on every page there was random 0 and 1 and many disjointed paragraphs making it difficult to read.