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Tables of Contents for The Epic of New York City
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
1 Manhattan Is Discovered
11
12
2 First Settlers Arrive
23
18
3 Peter Stuyvesant Takes Command
41
30
4 The English Name It New York
71
15
5 The Leisler Rebellion
86
14
6 Pirates Infest New York
100
15
7 Of Queesting and Fribbles
115
7
8 The Peter Zenger Trial
122
7
9 The City Goes Mad
129
9
10 Duel for Empire
138
5
11 The Stamp Act Rebellion
143
14
12 Revolutionary War
157
19
13 The Doctors' Riot
176
8
14 The Capital of the Nation
184
9
15 The Hamilton-Burr Duel
193
13
16 John Jacob Astor Fools the President
206
9
17 Sawing Off Manhattan Island
215
15
18 The Gangs of New York
230
17
19 Down With Foreigners!
247
8
20 The Astor Place Riot
255
11
21 Slavery and Abolitionism
266
10
22 The Police Riot
276
9
23 Abraham Lincoln Arrives
285
8
24 The Draft Riots
293
24
25 Confederates Try to Burn Down New York
317
10
26 The Tweed Scandals
327
31
27 Thomas Edison Lights the City
358
11
28 Building Brooklyn Bridge
369
8
29 Metropolitan Opera House Opens
377
7
30 Creation of the Statue of Liberty
384
9
31 The Blizzard of 1888
393
12
32 New York's First Skyscraper
405
11
33 Ellis Island Opens
416
7
34 The Reverend Parkhurst Samples Vice
423
17
35 Hearst Wages War
440
10
36 Creation of Greater New York
450
6
37 Opening of the Twentieth Century
456
12
38 The General Slocum Disaster
468
10
39 Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson
478
11
40 The Triangle Fire
489
8
41 The League of Nations Opens on Broadway
497
16
42 Wall Street Is Bombed
513
10
43 The Wall Street Crash
523
8
44 The Great Depression
531
9
45 The Jimmy Walker Scandals
540
9
46 Fiorello LaGuardia Becomes Mayor
549
8
47 Nazis Plan to Bomb New York
557
8
48 William O'Dwyer Sweats
565
14
49 Robert F. Wagner's Administration
579
14
50 "This City Is the Center of the Universe"
593
7
Selected Bibliography
600
19
Index
619