Producer: Sarah Birnbaum

Illustrator: Danny Hellman

Design/Art Director: Mohammad Riza

Production Assistant: Julie Flanagan

Writers: Kathy Ishizuka, Paul Vlachos

Java Programmers: Howard Goldstein, Andrew Langton, G. Francisco Perin

Flash Animators: Lenny Drozner, Trade Loeffler, Shannon Palmer

Flash Programmer: Mo Riza

Designers/Graphic Artists: Sabina Daley, Lenny Drozner, Trade Loeffler

Audio: Vincent Aliberto

Producer, Steeplechase Films: Steve Rivo

Historical Consultant: James Sanders

Special Thanks to Marilyn Munder

Acting Technical Director: G. Francisco Perin

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Image Credits

Courtesy of Lisa Ades
View of Central Park, No. 67, The Terrace
Tammany Hall, New York

Courtesy of American Jewish Historical Society, Waltham, Massachusetts and New York, New York
Emma Lazarus, C. 1860-70

Courtesy of Brooklyn Public Library -- Brooklyn Collection
Construction of Flatiron Building, 1901
Group of Italian Immigrants in City Hall Park in front of fountain

Courtesy of Brown Brothers, Sterling, Pennsylvania
Woolworth Building -- Steel-Girder Construction Worker, c. 1912
Jewish Daily Forward Building, c. 1900-1910
Nurse Examining Poor Children, c. 1900-1910s
Wall St. after Bombing, 1920

Courtesy of the Children's Aid Society, New York
Exterior of The Children's Aid Society's Utopia Children's Home, West 130th St., 1920s Children and teacher at a Children's Aid Society school.
The Children's Aid Society Dental Clinic, neighborhood center, 20s or 30s
"Feeding Hungry Kids" at the James Center
Nurses and patient at Columbus Hill Center, West 63rd St., New York, Mid 1920s
Orphan Train Children, The Children's Aid Society.
Charles Loring Brace

Courtesy of Culver Pictures
Immigrants Waiting to Enter Ellis Island
Alland Collection, Walter Winchell at his Desk, c. 1930
"Ladies Only" Car on the Subway
Immigrants disembarking at Ellis Island
Playground, Lower East Side
1863 Draft Riots, Rioters Marching Down Second Ave.
1863 Draft Riots: Destruction of Colored Orphan Asylum
Unidentified New York Factories, Women in sweatshop sewing, 1900-1915
1863 Draft Riots, Recruiting: The Riots in New York: The Mob Lynching a Negro on Clarkson Street
Alexander Hamilton at age of 22, portrait by James Peale, 1779
Bessie Smith, c. 1925

Courtesy of Historic Hudson Valley, Tarrytown, New York
Diedrich Knickerbocker, by Felix O. C. Darley, pencil and watercolor on paper, New York, c. 1848-1854

Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Portrait of John Jacob Astor, by Alonzo Chappel
New York City -- street play of children of the poor
U.S. Inspectors examining eyes of immigrants, Ellis Island, New York Harbor, c. 1913
Emigrants coming to the land of promise, 1902
Quarantined immigrants behind fences, 1901
Portrait of John Pierpont Morgan, 1837-1913
Strikes -- Ladies Tailors: Picket Girls on Duty, Feb. 1910, by Bain
Afternoon in Penn Station
Walt Whitman portrait from frontispiece of Leaves of Grass
Woolworth Building (in clouds)
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 1890-1964
Portrait of Henry Hudson

Courtesy of Levick Collection, The Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Virginia
Immigrants gaze at Statue of Liberty as SS Olympic arrives in NY, Levick Collection

Courtesy of Maritime Heritage Prints, Boston, Massachusetts
Black Ball Packet "Orpheus Leaving the East River in 1835" by John Stobart

Courtesy of Municipal Archives, City of New York
Lou Gehrig Honored (with Babe Ruth)
Murder Mugshots, from Lucky Luciano Trial
SS Normandy at Hudson River Pier, June 3, 1935
La Guardia throwing first ball
Portrait of La Guardia at desk
Mayor John Lindsay
Robert Moses in white suit
Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Image of subway tunnel under construction
Mayor Jimmy Walker
Artist Leo Sactzon painting mural for WPA
Afro-American WPA Dancers, c. 1938
Col. Charles Lindbergh and Jas. J. Walker, June 13, 1927

Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York
Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth, 1941, by George Gilbert
Portrait of Boss Tweed
Circus Side Show, Dream Land Coney Island
Civil War Soldiers, 7th Regiment on Bowery Street, 1861
Watercolor portrait of Cole Porter, by Boris Chaliapin
New York in 1660, Dutch and Native Americans
Landing of Hendrick Hudson, print after the painting by Robert W. Weir, 1874
Children's Roof Garden, Ellis Island
George Gershwin, by VanDamm
Harlem -- men standing on Lenox Avenue, Harlem, 1939
Harlem Dance Band, "Big Jack -- E.H. on Drums," by Sid Grossman, 1939
Electric Light Madison Square, 1882
Panorama of Manhattan Island, City of New York and Environs (Bird's-eye view from South West), From Nature and on stone by John Bornet, 1874
Newsstand, Third Ave. and E. 52nd St. (N.W. Corner), by Beecher Ogden, c. 1937
Pulling Down King George III, by William Walcott
Theodore Roosevelt
Seal of Province of New Netherland
"Ol' Man River" sheet music for Hammerstein and Kern's "Show Boat"
Lithograph: Evolution of the Speakeasy, Barney Gallant's "Speako de Luxe," 1933
Silver gelatin print: In a Sweatshop, by Lewis Hine, ca. 1911
Times Square at night, c. 1921 by Brown Brothers
Oil painting: Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire, by Victor Joseph Gatto
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt at home
Silver Gelatin Print: World's Fair, New York, 1939, by New York World's Fair Corporation, 1940
Theatre Poster for: Day and Night, A Yiddish Drama in three acts

Courtesy of the National Archives
Lower East Side street scene
Congestion on Hester St.

Courtesy of National Parks Service-Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Frederick Law Olmsted reading, c. 1850-1860.

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
E-mail: NPGRightsOffice@npg.si.edu
Phineas Taylor Barnum and Charles Sherwood Stratton, attributed to Samuel Root or Marcus Aurelius Root
Jacob August Riis by Davis Garber.

Courtesy of New York Cruise Lines, Inc.
Circle Line passing the Brooklyn Bridge

Courtesy of the Collection of the New York Historical Society
"Another Day of Rioting"
Coaching scene in Central Park, May 7, 1910
Three Hundred Elms -- The largest Contiguous Stand in the World, in Central Park's Mall, c. 1894
"Map of Central Park" from the Annual Report of Commissioner of Central Park
Central Park, litho by Bachman, 1863
Portrait of Lord Cornbury
Great Depression, shantytown: 12th Ave. and 40th St., 3 men in front of shack #5, c. 1925
Male and female factory workers at New York Navy Yard, World War II
New York Fire viewed from Brooklyn, 1835
Stereograph of Five Points
Portrait of Irving Berlin, Pach Photograph
The New York Daily Times, "Lincoln Speech at Cooper Institute"
The New York Daily Times, "Republicans at Cooper Institute"
Abraham Lincoln
Commissioner's Map, Manhattan Grid Plan
Image of the New York Stock Exchange
Painting of Revolutionary War
Washington Roebling in His Sickroom
Portrait of Victoria Woodhull
William M. Tweed Wanted -- announcement, $10,000 reward, 1875

Courtesy of the New York Public Library
"Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations"
Peter Stuyvesant Rebuking the Cobbler, 1640s.
"General Research Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations."
"Big New Company Begins Broadcasting," DAILY NEWS Article, comedians Lew Fields and Joe Weber, November 16, 1926
Civil War Conscription Bill, New York Times, March 6, 1863
"L.N. Phelps Stokes Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations."
Nieu Amsterdam, Indian Slaves Carrying loads to Dutch
Robert Fulton's Clermont on the Hudson
"Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations."
Abyssinian Baptist Church, 1936
The Brooklyn Bridge under construction, c.1880
Chrysler Building under construction
Empire State Building, Fifth Avenue, west side, 33rd to 34th Streets, in final stage of construction, October 20, 1930
Old Five Points/N.E. Corner of Baxter & Park, 1872
Rear tenements of Mott St.
E. 42nd Street, at the N.E. corner of Vanderbilt Avenue, showing the 3rd Grand Central on this site, 1914. Irving Underhill
East 42nd Street, at the NE corner of Vanderbilt Avenue, showing the southerly, or main side of the Grand Central Station. August 25, 1931. P. L. Sperr
Seventh Avenue, from 152-153rd Streets. P.L. Sperr, June 29, 1941
Children in splash pool, Seventh Avenue, from West 151st to 153rd Streets, showing details of the Harlem slum clearance project "Riverview Houses." Summer 1938. Alexander Alland
Seventh Avenue, from West 151-153rd Streests, showing details of Harlem Slum Clearance Project, "River Houses," 1938, Alexander Alland
Wall Street Crash 1929
Inside the 8th Street crosstown car in Manhattan, Victor Volmar, 1930s
Times Square, north from West 42nd Street, P.L. Sperr, September 14, 1937
Navy, Return from WWI Parade
"Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations."
W.E.B. Du Bois at desk
Langston Hughes
Drawing of slaves,"A day's work ended"
"Picture Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations."
"What are you laughing at? To the victor belong the spoils," cartoon by Thomas Nast
"The Tammany Tiger Loose -- What Are You Going To Do About It," cartoon by Thomas Nast, 1871
"Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations."
Stereoscopic View: Little Falls, New York
Stereoscopic View: Lockport, New York
Stereoscopic View: Syracuse, New York

Courtesy of the Bayley-Whitman Collection of Ohio Wesleyan University
Portrait of Walt Whitman, 1860s

Courtesy of Pete's Tavern, Gary Egan
Exterior of Pete's Tavern

Courtesy of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Holland Tunnel
John F. Kennedy Airport
"The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Evon Auster 1991"
New York International (Idlewild) Airport

Courtesy of Princeton University Library
F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

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