Gallery Visit: Collecting New York's Stories: Stuyvesant to Sid Vicious at Museum of the City of NY

"You know it kind of makes sense that it mostly focuses on Manhattan because everything happening there through those years," my good friend Tyson Ho tells me as we make our way down 5th Ave. The exhibit on the Museum of the City of NY's 3rd-floor spotlights works from Janette Beckman, Bruce Davidson, Helen Levitt, Ruddy Roye, Richard Sandler, Gail Thacker, James Van Der Zee, Harvey Wang, and others. Those names are enough to make most folks smitten with the romanticism of old New York book thei...