Synopsis

"Sunshine and Shadow: 1865-1898" chronicles a period during the Gilded Age when New York City, as narrator David Ogden Stiers observes, housed both the most profound wealth ever accumulated and its starkest counterpart in poverty. This segment explores this duality, contrasting the opulent Fifth Avenue mansions with the slums vividly depicted by Jacob Riis in *How the Other Half Lives*. The episode also reflects upon the downfall of William H. "Boss" Tweed, a figure described by Pete Hamill as h