New York 400 / John Thorn, editor ; Melanie Bower, picture editor; preface by Mike Wallace .

"A visual history of America's greatest city with images from the Museum of the City of New York"--Book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references: ( p.466-467) and index.

The elusive shifting sand/ by Jaap Jacobs-- Open city New York as a port town in the mid eigteenth century/ by Sara Stidstones Groinim-- The Gibraltar of America/ by Edwin G. Burrows-- The man about town: Mens and style in AAron Burr's New York/ by Nancy Isenberg-- New York: The capital city of sex/ by Patricia Cline Cohen-- Sugar, slaves and the rise of Cuban New York/ by Lisandro Pérez-- Street fight:The draft riots of 1863/ by Owen D. Gutfreund-- Mysteries of the city: Rethinking corruption and crime in gilded-age NYC/ BY Daniel Czitrom-- Biting the apple: New York nightlife in the roarin twenties/ by Lew Erenberg-- The new deal and New York city's homeless / by Ella Howard-- Gotham girds for war: the right to fight /by Mike Wallace-- Potwar New York: A socio-cultural sketch /by Phillip Lopate-- The civil rights movement in New York City/ by Clarence Taylor-- Seeing it trhough: New York in the 1970s/ by Joshua B. Freeman-- Goodbye to all that / by Jed Perl-- Immigrants reshape the city / by David Dyssegaard Kallick.