News Summary

• Filmmaker Ric Burns is editing two long-gestating new episodes of “New York,’ set to air later this month on PBS.
• The new episodes feature a Burnsian mix of carefully chosen images, lyrical voice-over, and cross-spectrum talking heads.
• The first seven episodes, fourteen hours in all, aired between 1999 and 2001, covering everything from Henry Hudson’s first sail up the harbor to the city's near-bankruptcy in the nineteen-seventies.