To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe.
Chapter 2. The Men Who Bought Manhattan
Chapter 5. A City Lost, a City Gained
Chapter 6. Empire and Oligarchy
Chapter 7. Jacob Leisler’s Rebellion
Chapter 8. Heats and Animosityes
Chapter 9. In the Kingdom of Sugar
Chapter 10. One Body Corporate and Politic?
Chapter 11. Recession, Revival, and Rebellion
Chapter 14. The Demon of Discord
Chapter 16. The Gibraltar of North America
Chapter 18. The Revolution Settlement
Chapter 19. The Grand Federal Procession
Chapter 21. Revolutions Foreign and Domestic
Chapter 22. Queen of Commerce, Jack of All Trades
Chapter 23. The Road to City Hall
Chapter 24. Philosophes and Philanthropists
Chapter 25. From Crowd to Class
Chapter 28. The Medici of the Republic
Chapter 30. Reforms and Revivals
Chapter 31. The Press of Democracy
Chapter 32. The Destroying Demon of Debauchery
Chapter 33. White, Green, and Black
Chapter 35. Filth, Fever, Water, Fire
Chapter 41. Life Above Bleecker
Chapter 42. City of Immigrants
Chapter 44. Into the Crazy-Loved Dens of Death
Chapter 46. Louis Napoleon and Fernando Wood
Chapter 50. The Battle for New York
Chapter 52. Reconstructing New York
Chapter 54. Haut Monde and Demimonde
Chapter 55. The Professional-Managerial Class
Chapter 56. Eight Hours for What We Will
Chapter 57. The New York Commune?
Chapter 60. Bright Lights, Big City
Chapter 62. “The Leeches Must Go!”
Chapter 63. The New Immigrants
Chapter 64. That’s Entertainment!
Chapter 68. Splendid Little War