The Rise and Fall of Old New York: America’s Lost Empire City
From Peter Minuit’s 1626 purchase of Manhattan for sixty guilders to the 1963 demolition of the original Penn Station, this script traces New York City history from Dutch New Amsterdam trading post to the world’s capital of commerce and ambition. It follows the Erie Canal’s economic revolution, waves of immigration that built the garment district and Lower East Side tenements, the Gilded Age contrast of skyscraper icons like the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building with the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, postwar peaks under Robert Moses, and the 1970s fiscal crisis that reshaped Manhattan real estate and urban identity. Sources: Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan. Doubleday, 2004. Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. Oxford University Press, 1999. Caro, Robert A. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Von Drehle, David. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003. McCullough, David. The Great Bridge. Simon & Schuster, 1972. Ellis, Edward Robb. The Epic of New York City: A Narrative History. Carroll & Graf, 1997.
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