This document summarizes key events and developments in New York City between 1825-1898: - The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 flooded New York with people and commerce, fueling the city's growth. Manhattan became the center of industry and commerce in the 1830s. - Population skyrocketed from 800,000 to over 5 million by the 1870s, exacerbating inequality between the wealthy and poor. Figures like P.T. Barnum and newspapers helped integrate the diverse population. - The construction of Central Park from 1857-1873 provided respite for city dwellers. Wealthy industrialists and financiers like Vanderbilt and Gould shaped the city's economy in

1. Ashley Rubio
HIST 141

2. Episode # 2
“Order and Disorder”
1825-1865
As a city on the brink of
revolutionary growth, New York
transforms from one of American
simplicity to a metropolis in the
making.
From the 1800s to the 1900s
we see population skyrocket fifty
times over.
As the city grows its inhibitors
contemplate whether a new order
can be created or will the city
explode into anarchy…
 1825- The Erie Canal opens flooding the city of New York with people and culture
world wide. City shore lines are developed miles at a time for years.
1830- Industrialization of Manhattan booms creating workforce unmatched by
anytime preceding. Manhattan becomes the first and largest district to be directly solely
for the purpose of commerce. Hundreds and thousands of businesses and shops are built
fueling competition.

3. Episode # 2
“Order and Disorder”
1825-1865
 As growth became too overwhelming, society looked upon news papers to keep them
informed of their surroundings.
 1841- Walt Whitman came to the city like many others to find work. Found work at a
penny newspaper called the “Aurora” following in the same foot steps of the great James
Gordon Bennett.
- Bennett founded the most successful paper of the time, The New York Herald, the first
of which to be completely independent from a political party and play a master role in the
birth of modern journalism .
 Influence by his years as a newspaper man, to entice the vast and diverse
public, Phineus T. Barnum opened the American Museum in 1841.
--- Until this point on one had managed to cater to the differences in people.
--- The museum included: a mermaid from Fiji, a midget named Tom Thumb, and a 3,000
seat lecture room for the middle class.
 throughout Barnum’s 27 year run of the American Museum he sold an overwhelming
42 million tickets, 7 million more than the total inhibitors of the country at that point.

4. The Great Migration :1845 to 1855
 Began on the heels of the Great Potato
Famine of Ireland in 1845.
Caused a record setting migration of 1.5
million Irish settlers by sail boat, as opposed
to stream boat which was popular of the time.
Central Park
To answer the lack of escape for dwellers of the great metropolis of
commerce in New York City, Mayor Fernando Wood requested for entrees
of a future park.
Entry #33 submitted by both Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert
Vaux, would soon become one of the most wondrous man made landscape
of its time and its future.
 By the Spring of „59 only a portion of Central Park had been completed
and already spanned 1,843 archers.

5. Episode # 3
“Sunshine and Shadow”
1865-1898
As we see ground  1865- Olmsted returns after the Civil War to complete
breaking Central Park eight years later.
happenings, such as the  It is estimated that for years following its finishing the
construction of Central park draws nearly eight and a half million wanderers a
Park finish, we also are year.
reminded of the Leading into the 1870s the population of the city grows
overwhelming divide to an alarming 5 million with the poles of its
between the poor and socioeconomic scale spanning farther apart than ever
the wealthy that both before.
reside in the confines of
the City.
The decades
following the Civil War
will prove to be some of
the toughest
socioeconomically we
will see in New York’s
history.

6. Capitalizing on the City
 Cornelius Vanderbilt-
-- After successfully maneuvering the shipping market, Vanderbilt locked
in on the railroad industry.
-- He understood the game of industry and epitomized the ideal of greed.
“Put the roads there, and the people will live there.”
Jay Gould & Jim Fisk-
-- In 1869, Gould and Fisk took to Wall Street in attempts to corner the
Gold market.
-- The money the two used was the amount embezzled from investments
in the Erie Railroad.
John Augustus Roebling-
-- On January 26, 1867 the East River froze over leaving all ships docked
and shed light on a problem most had hoped would never surface.
-- The need for a Bridge to open the doors to expansion of the every growing city
was the answer. Roebling would draft a plan for the Brooklyn bridge that would
stretch over 1,600 feet long and tower 275 feet high in order to connect Upper
Manhattan to Brooklyn which could expand endlessly to Long Island.

7. Near the end of
the century during
the 1890s we see an
influx of millionaires
within the city of
New York. It has
become a mark of
wealth to flaunt the
riches one owns to
prove their status to
those around them. However, with the unveiling of the Statue of
Nearly 1,800 from Liberty on October 28, 1886 , the city is reminded of
cities like Chicago the mass amount of “common” folk whom have long to
and Philadelphia reach this New World where opportunity lives. Five
came to form what days after the unveiling , Henry George united by the
would be 5th Labor Party, attempted to run for Mayor of New York
Street, one of the supported by the migrant poor. He was beat by a
wealthiest area of wealthy tycoon.
the city.

8. A Merger That Puts
New York on Top
By Mike Clough
 The article circles around the question
of whether or not New York can Clough also hints at the fact that
successfully dominate and capitalize thought other regions are dominating
industry in the new American age as it in their own right, they only manage
did in the old one. to monopolize on one market.
 the author believes that because of
New York’s overwhelming abilities from
its past there are no questions for its
drive in the future.
 Strong points that were true then and
now are: the ideally place port in w is
open to several industries and its ability
to grasp economic gains from profitable
markets originally from other regions.
 AOL is suggested to root itself in New
York to capitalize the e-commerce
market.

9. Immigrant and Cities:
The City in the Land of the Dollar
What makes a good
city?
Around the country
even today we see fair
shares of cities whose
main purpose is to
produce and those whose
production comes
unforced but in lower
quantity.
Is there a reason why
even tough American
cities are profitable, they
are by no means the
perfect post card image?
We investigate Chicago.

10.  After the Great Fire in Chicago, to question of
how to rebuild the city arose. Chicago was built in
the commercialized and industrial time erected
much differently.
 They were able to adapt their new city to the
elevated technologies of the time capitalizing on
the invention of elevators allowing the city to
grow not only outward but upward as well.
 The use of steel benefited in several ways. A
steel frame not only was cheaper but allowed levels
to be built quicker and more soundly.
 It is in Chicago where the trend of skyscrapers
originator almost overnight .
 Housing also expanded and evolved as the city
grew. For the first time city living became
convenient to works who could rent a near by
apartment just blocks from work.

11. Rebuilding the city was not only able making what was there new, it was about
finding to new ways of profiting from the change. Like Olmsted did in New York, there
was a demand for urbanized parks and recreations to draw in the public. Also credited to
Olmsted was the creation of Midway Plaisance, created on fair grounds that span over
600 acres, which includes the worlds first Ferris wheel which carried 1,500 passengers.
Chicago to this day had proved itself to be one of the most innovated city
always improving what it has and expanding the bounds it has reached.