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 (pages 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.

In the 400 years since Henry Hudson's arrival at the shores of what is present-day New York, the city has grown to become the 'Capital of the World'. This book focuses on landmarks as well as on everyday city life over the past four centuries