The three short texts and 69 images in Ann Tizia Leitich's New York make the book a kind of combined photobook and city guide. In 1932, after her return to Vienna, the Austrian author and journalist Ann Tizian Leitich published New York, an account of her life and writing experiences in New York. "New York als Vision"; "Das New York des Luxus"; "Das New York der Arbeit” – the titles of the three German written essays – thematise the life and the status of the metropolis during the 1930s and reflect on the image of the city in Europe. The 69 images show typical sights and buildings of New York. They start with the Empire State Building, continuing with day and night overviews of the city from elevated viewpoints, the harbour and bridges, Fifth Avenue, Broadway, Wall Street, views of skyscrapers and the everyday life of people in the urban space, train stations, Trinity Church, theatres, apartment interiors and rooftops, street life in such boroughs as the Lower East Side, Little Italy, Chinatown and Harlem, with a closing image of Coney Island.

The images not only captured views of the city and everyday life on the streets, but also the eclectic architectural styles of the buildings. Under each image is a short description with details of the credited photographers/photo agencies. Four images are signed “Jacobi, Berlin” and were taken during Ruth Jacobi's stay in New York in the late 1920s. This was the only publication to reproduce Jacobi’s photographs, putting her on an equal footing with the internationally renowned photographers who contributed to the book. Among them were the photographers Edwing Galloway and Emil Otto Hoppé, who had already published his Romantic America: Picturesque United States photobook in 1927. (Westermann Co., Inc., 1927). American contributors to New York included Richard Averill Smith, who had run his own New York photo studio at 52 Vanderbilt Avenue since 1928 and specialised in photographing hotels, restaurants and private homes. Photo agencies who contributed included Presse-Photo, Berlin and Mauritus (Ernest Mayer's photo agency).

The image selection shows Ann Tizia Leitich’s international connections within the photographer and photo press scene in Germany and New York and chimes with the intense interest in the metropolis that existed in 1930s' Europe. During the 1920s and early 1930s, the city of New York was an object of fascination for Europeans and there was a demand of this kind of book. The book's design and the changing image positions in portrait and landscape format encourage the reader to read dynamically. Published in 1932 in Germany, the book was intended primarily for European readers interested in travel, who would enjoy a virtual, close-up tour of New York from the comfort of their armchairs. Other émigrés photographers creating photobooks during the 1930s and 1940s on New York were Fred Stein with his photobook 5th Avenue, Elizabeth Coleman with Chinatown U.S.A., Andreas Feininger with New York and others, Rolf Tietgens with Times Square as well as Mario Bucovich with Magic Manhattan.