New York · 7 chapters
History of New YorkHistory & audio guide · New York
Before the skyscrapers and the money, this was the home of the Lenape and a Dutch port built for trade. From there came the Republic, the waves of immigrants, the vertical city and today's global New York. Seven chapters on a city that never stops reinventing itself.
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Updated: July 2026
The story, in short
New York reaches you before you know it: you've seen it a thousand times without setting foot in it. This special travels the full arc, from before the city to today. It began as the world of the Lenape and a Dutch village, New Amsterdam, built to do business. From that port came everything else.
Then came the British and the Revolution — New York was, for a time, the nation's capital —, the waves of immigrants who really built it, and the skyscrapers that rose even in the depths of the Depression. A city that learned to answer crises by looking upward.
Seven chapters that reach all the way to September 11 and the 21st century, about a city that falls and reinvents itself again and again without ceasing to be itself. Walk it while Ruthy tells you the story, standing right there, in no hurry.
All 7 chapters
History of New York, told chapter by chapter
Ruthy narrates History of New York in 7 chapters, at the exact spot where each story happened. Download the app free, arrive and press play — no group tour, at your own pace.
- Before New York: the Lenape and the world of Manhattan
- New Amsterdam: the Dutch city
- British New York and the American Revolution
- Immigration, expansion and the birth of the metropolis
- Skyscrapers, economic power and world city
- Global New York: crisis, diversity and rebirth
- From September 11 to the 21st century
History of New York, with Ruthy
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