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One in this documentary series. Part three in a seven-episode Ric Burns documentary that chronicles the history of New York from its inception as a Dutch Colony to its aggressive and destructive urban renewal campaigns of the 1950s.

Utilizing archival photographs, film footage, editorial caricatures, and interviews with scholars and writers offering insight into the people, ideas, and dreams that shaped the metropolis, this episode seeks to explain the gilded age, a period in New York City history that transformed the city's economy from provincial to industrial.

At the center of the episode is an exploration of the city's accumulating wealth, contrasted against the city's rapidly growing poor.

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Throughout, the viewer is offered narrated quotations by the city's most famous writer, Walt Whitman, and diary keeper George Templeton Strong. The film begins with a discussion of Central Park and one of its designers, Frederick Law Olmsted.

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