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The History of the City of New York with Kenneth T. Jackson
Industrial decline Gotham's Enterprises Problems The Port Port Authority Is History for Losers?
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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].


I. Industrial Decline


2. New York and Steam Power


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).


II. Gotham's Enterprises


1. Small Industries


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.


 


2. Breweries


Footage from TV commercial for Rheingold extra-dry lager beer (c. 1960). Courtesy of archive.org.


 


5. Textiles


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.


III. Problems


2. Technological Shifts


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.


 


3. Trucks and Government


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.


IV. The Port


1. Reinforcing Advantages


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.


 


2. National Importance


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.


 

3. No Direct Freight Link

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.

 


 


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.


V. Port Authority


1. Managing the Port


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].


 


2. Problems of the Port


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].


 


3. Problems of the Harbor


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.


VI. Is History for Losers?


2. Renewed Interest in the City's History


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.


 

3. History and Historic

The skyline of midtown Manhattan. Photograph (c. 1931). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs, Panoramic Photographs [LC-USZ62-120504].

 

 

Flatiron Building, New York City (2002). Vincent Aliberto, photographer. Copyright 2002 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.

 

 

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.

 

 

Rockefeller Center, New York City. Carlos Zambrano, photographer. Copyright 2002 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.

 


 


Ellis Island, New York. Photograph (c. 1913). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection [LC-USZ62-40101].


 

4. The Tradition of Change

The old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel just prior to its demolition (1929). Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

 

 

Woolworth Building, New York City (2002). Carlos Zambrano, photographer. Copyright 2002 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

 

 

Empire State Building, New York City (2003). Vincent Aliberto, photographer. Copyright 2003 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

 

 

The Empire State Building under construction (1930). Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

 

 

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City (2003). Corrinne Collett, photographer. Copyright 2003 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.

 


 


Columbia Colllege at 49th Street, New York City (nineteenth century). Columbia University Archives–Columbiana Library.


 


5. The Arrogance of Staying the Same


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.


 

8. A Living City

Kent Barwick. Courtesy of the Municipal Art Society.

 


 


"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.