The epic of New York City

Manhattan is discovered

First settlers arrive

Peter Stuyvesant takes command

The English name it New York

The Leisler Rebellion

Pirates infest New York

Of queesting and fribbles

The Peter Zenger trial

The city goes mad

Duel for empire

The Stamp Act rebellion

Revolutionary War

The Doctors' Riot

The capital of the nation

The Hamilton - Burr duel

John Jacob Astor fools the president

Sawing off Manhattan Island

The gangs of New York

Down with foreigners!

The Astor Place riot

Slavery and abolitionism

The police riot

Abraham Lincoln arrives

The draft riots

Confederates try to burn down New York

The Tweed scandals

Thomas Edison lights the city

Building Brooklyn Bridge

Metropolitan Opera House opens

Creation of the Statue of Liberty

The blizzard of 1888

New York's first skyscraper

Ellis Island opens

The Reverend Pankhurst samples vice

Hearst wages war

Creation of greater New York

Opening of the twentieth century

The General Slocum disaster

Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson

The triangle fire

The League of Nations opens on Broadway

Wall Street is bombed

The Wall Street crash

The great depression

The Jimmy Walker scandals

Fiorello LaGuardia becomes mayor

Nazis plan to bomb New York

William O'Dwyer sweats

Robert F. Wagner's administration

"This city is the center of the universe".