This book is a book on immigration history, which is a series of true personal stories of many New York immigrants in history. It is divided into 22 chapters, telling the changes of New York immigrant culture and urban landscape in nearly 400 years from the colonial period in the early 17th century to the present. Each chapter carefully selects specific real people as the core and clues of the narrative, including Anne Moore and her family, who were the first to board the Ellis Island immigration checkpoint on the immigrant ship "Nevada", the German businessman Zenger who promoted the construction of New York's legal system, McDougall who struggled from the son of a Scottish milkman to a wealthy businessman, and the Jewish poet Emma Lazarus who made the public redefine the Statue of Liberty.
本书是由历史上众多纽约移民的真实个人故事串联而成的移民史著作。共分为22个章节，讲述了从17世纪初殖民地时期至今近400年里纽约移民文化和城市风貌变迁。每一章节都精心挑选了特定真实人物作为叙述的核心与线索，包括乘坐“内华达号”移民船第一个登上埃利斯岛移民检查站的安妮·摩尔一家，推动纽约法制建设的德裔商人岑格，从苏格兰牛奶工的儿子一路奋斗为富商的麦克杜格尔，让公众重新定义自由女神像的犹太诗人埃玛·拉扎勒斯等。
本书是由历史上众多纽约移民的真实个人故事串联而成的移民史著作。共分为22个章节，讲述了从17世纪初殖民地时期至今近400年里纽约移民文化和城市风貌变迁。每一章节都精心挑选了特定真实人物作为叙述的核心与线索，包括乘坐“内华达号”移民船第一个登上埃利斯岛移民检查站的安妮·摩尔一家，推动纽约法制建设的德裔商人岑格，从苏格兰牛奶工的儿子一路奋斗为富商的麦克杜格尔，让公众重新定义自由女神像的犹太诗人埃玛·拉扎勒斯等。
