**This PDF is NOT the entire book** NEW YORK NEW YORK Photographs by Harry Benson Text by Hilary Geary Ross Introduction by Jay McInerney Published by To be released: December 2011 This PDF of New York New York is only a preview and an uncorrected proof . Lifting images from mechanical files is strictly prohibited. To see the complete version, please contact Nina Ventura, Publicity Associate:
[email protected] **This PDF is NOT the entire book** Photographs by Harry Benson Text by Hilary Geary Ross Introduction by Jay McInerney Senator Robert F. Kennedy striding down Fifth Avenue in the St. Patrick's Day Parade, the same day he announced his candidacy for president. New York City, 1968. BROOKLYN, NY 2 3 This book is dedicated to my wonderful husband, Wilbur Ross, and to all my friends and family who so generously posed for this book. I am ever so grateful to you all! -Hilary Geary Ross As always, to my wife, Gigi, who collaborates on all my projects, for her enthusiasm and commitment in finding the unseen, older photographs for this book. - Harry Benson Halston, the legendary designer, and entertainer Liza Minnelli at Halston’s Olympic Tower office. New York City, 1978. 4 5 PREFACE by Hilary Geary Ross “New York New York. I want to wake up in the city that doesn’t sleep.” So goes the Kander and Ebb song, and if there is anyone who can dance you through New York City, it is none other than Harry Benson. In this spectacular volume, Harry Benson captures what gives New York its vitality: the people who live and work here.