Crosstown, for the largest selection of Helen Levitt's work ever published, confirms her importance as one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers. Since the mid-1930s, Levitt has photographed the hilarious, dramatic, and sometimes tragic ephemera of the New York City streets in her characteristically theatrical manner.

"These pictures, quickly recognized as extraordinary, established a new documentary genre for American photography..." John Szarkowski

Introduction by Francine Prose