Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Vibrant, dynamic history of the great city. A must.

Oliver E. Allen's "New York New York" is an outstanding account of the growth and development of New York City from the small Dutch settlement of the 1600's to the international powerhouse of the 1980's. All major influences, people, and incidents that played roles in the shaping of the metropolis are describe with compelling and cohesive clarity. Factual and scholarly research that reads like a page turner. A must for any historian, urban politician, or literate New Yorker. Should be a required text for New York Colleges or elite High Schools, as well as the private libraries of politically involved urbanites of any city. Even as a jaded New Yorker I give it Five stars.