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New York · S1E2 — Order and Disorder (1825–1865)
Season 1 episodes
1. The Country and the City (1609–1825)Nov 14, 1999
2. Order and Disorder (1825–1865)Nov 15, 1999
3. Sunshine and Shadow (1865–1898)Nov 16, 1999
4. The Power and the People (1898–1918)Nov 17, 1999
5. Cosmopolis (1919–1931)Nov 18, 1999
6. City of Tomorrow (1929–1941)Sep 30, 2001
7. The City and the World (1945–2000)Oct 1, 2001
8. The Center of the World (1946–2003)Sep 8, 2003
9. Shadows of the Past (1965-2001)Sep 21, 2026
10. The Future of Cities (2001-2026)Sep 22, 2026Synopsis
Already established as America's premier port, New York City swelled into the nation's greatest industrial metropolis as a massive wave of German and Irish immigration turned the city into one of the world's most complex urban environments, bringing with it a host of new social problems. Episode Two reveals how the city's artists, innovators and leaders, from poet Walt Whitman to Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux (the designers of Central Park) grappled with the city's growing conflicts -- which culminated in the catastrophic Civil War Draft Riots of 1863.
