Autumn in New York is a jazz standard composed by Vernon Duke, born Vladimir Dukelsky, in 1934 for the Broadway revue Thumbs Up! It was first performed by J. Harold Murray when the show opened on December 27, 1934, and the song was published in 1949. The lyrics paint a moody portrait of New York City in autumn, with lines about glittering crowds and canyons of steel and the mix of romance with a touch of sadness. It quickly became a staple of the jazz repertoire, with Frank Sinatra's 1949 rendition being the only version to chart in the US. Over the years it has been recorded by many artists including Billie Holiday with Oscar Peterson, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, and Diana Krall, cementing its status as a timeless standard about love and city life in autumn.
