New York: Line by Line, From Broadway to the Battery

This book collects line drawings by Robinson, a German illustrator who visited in the 1960s. The pages depict an earlier time, of course, when men wore fedoras and Met Life was Pan Am, but they also demonstrate a deep devotion that transcends the page. His so-called X-ray view lets us see the cityscape from multiple perspectives, but mostly we see New York from the point of view of someone who fell so utterly in love with this place that he painstakingly drew edge after edge, corner after corner, of the city he saw.