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								 Detail from the skyline of midtown Manhattan. Photograph (c. 1931). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs, Panoramic Photographs [LC-USZ62-120504].
 
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								 I. Industrial Decline
 
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								  |  2.  New York and Steam Power
 
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								 Detail from Rogers Locomotive Works. Patterson, N. J., 1882—U.S.A.. Illustration by J. L. Giles (engraved by Augustus Robin), in Locomotives and Locomotive Building: Being a Brief Sketch of the Growth of the Railroad System and of the Various Imporvements in Locomotive Building in America, Together with a History of the Origin and Growth of the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, Paterson, New Jersey, from 1831 to 1886, by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works (New York: Wm. S. Gottsberger, 1886). 
 
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								 II.	Gotham's Enterprises
 
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								  |  1. Small Industries
 
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								 Joshua Brown and David Ment, Factories, Foundries, and Refineries: A History of Five Brooklyn Industries  (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Educational and Cultural Alliance, 1980), 5–7. Columbia University Libraries.
 
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								  |  2. Breweries 
 
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								 Footage from TV commercial for Rheingold extra-dry lager beer (c. 1960). Courtesy of archive.org.
 
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								  |  5. Textiles
 
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								 Equitable Building, New York City. Photograph in Valentine's Manual of Old New York, ed. Henry Collins Brown, no. 5, n.s. (New York: Valentine's Manual, 1921). Columbia University Libraries.
 
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								 III. Problems
 
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								  |  2. Technological Shifts
 
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								 Excerpt from Robert Murray Haig and Roswell C. McCrea, “Certain Findings Briefly Stated,” Ecomonic Factors in Metropolitan Growth and Arrangement: A Study of Trends and Tendencies in the Economic Activities Within the Region of New York and Its Environs, Regional Survey, vol. 1 (New York: Regional Plan of New York and its Environs, 1927). Columbia University Libraries.
 
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								  |  3. Trucks and  Government
 
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								 Footage from Give Yourself the Green Light, a film produced to garner public support for the creation of the Intersate Highway System.    Produced by Handy (Jam) Organization for General Motors Corporation (1954). Courtesy of archive.org.
 
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								 IV.	The Port
 
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								  |  1. Reinforcing Advantages
 
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								 Detail from a stereoscopic photograph of Coenties Slip on the East River, New York City (c. 1876). Canal boats are visible in the foreground. Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views; Photography Collection; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs; The New York Public Library; Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
 
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								  |  2. National Importance
 
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								 Piers 46 and 47, Lower Ganesvoort, New York City. Photograph (c. 1910). City of New York Municipal Archives, Department of Records and Information, Ports and Trade Collection.
 
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								  |  3. No Direct Freight Link
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								 Railroad freight cars on barges at Pier 1, New York City. Photograph (c. 1910). City of New York Municipal Archives, Department of Records and Information, Ports and Trade Collection.
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								 Detail from North River Shipping Activity View to Southeast (July 18, 1956). Photograph of the Hudson River as seen from New Jersey; Manhattan is in the background. Museum of the City of New York. Gift of the Port of New York Authority.
 
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								 V. Port Authority
 
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								  |  1. Managing the Port
 
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								 An M-4 tank is loaded on a freighter in New York harbor, for shipment to a U.S. ally during the Second World War (1943). Alfred T. Palmer, photographer.  Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration–Office of War Information Photograph Collection [LC-USE6-D-008852].
 
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								  |  2. Problems of the Port
 
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								 A derelict pier on the Hudson River at West 55th Street, New York City (1986). Gerald Weinstein, photographer. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs, Historic American Buildings Survery [HAER, 31-NEYO,147].
 
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								  |  3. Problems of the Harbor
 
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								 Map showing the location of Kill Van Kull waterway in New York harbor. Copyright 2003 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
 
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								 VI. Is History for Losers?
 
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								  |  2. Renewed Interest in the City's History
 
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								 Books at the New-York Historical Society gift shop (2003). Corrinne Collett, photographer. Copyright 2003 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
 
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								  |  3. History and Historic
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								 The skyline of midtown Manhattan. Photograph (c. 1931). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs, Panoramic Photographs [LC-USZ62-120504].
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								 Flatiron Building, New York City (2002). Vincent Aliberto, photographer. Copyright 2002 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
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								 Interior of Grand Central Station, New York City (2003). Corrinne Collett, photographer. Copyright 2003 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
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								 Rockefeller Center, New York City. Carlos Zambrano, photographer. Copyright 2002 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
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								 Ellis Island, New York. Photograph (c. 1913). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection [LC-USZ62-40101].
 
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								  |  4. The Tradition of Change 
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								 The old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel just prior to its demolition (1929). Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
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								 Woolworth Building, New York City (2002). Carlos Zambrano, photographer. Copyright 2002 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
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								 Empire State Building, New York City (2003). Vincent Aliberto, photographer. Copyright 2003 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
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								 The Empire State Building under construction (1930). Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
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								 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City (2003). Corrinne Collett, photographer. Copyright 2003 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
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								 Columbia Colllege at 49th Street, New York City (nineteenth century). Columbia University Archives–Columbiana Library.
 
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								  |  5. The Arrogance of Staying the Same
 
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								 Grand Central Station and the MetLife Building (2003). Corrinne Collett, photographer. Copyright 2003 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
 
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								  |  8. A Living City
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								 Kent Barwick. Courtesy of the Municipal Art Society.
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								 "Make tracks to D.C. to save Grand Central!" Flyer announcing a demonstration to save Grand Central Terminal (c. 1977). Courtesy of the Municipal Art Society.
 
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