<P> The first five episodes aired in November 1999 . Episodes Six and Seven aired in September 2001 . A new episode, which chronicled the rise and fall of the World Trade Center, was produced after the September 11 attacks in 2001, airing in September 2003 . In 2018, the ninth episode will premiere, chronicling New York since the events of September 11, 2001 . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> No . </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "The Country and the City (1609--1825)" </Td> <Td> Ric Burns </Td> <Td> Ric Burns & James Sanders </Td> <Td> November 14, 1999 (1999 - 11 - 14) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> The series begins with the founding of New Amsterdam, a Dutch trading post . The city starts to take shape as New Amsterdam becomes British New York . By the Revolutionary War, the city becomes the site for several key battles . This episode also covers the building of the Erie Canal . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "Order and Disorder (1825--1865)" </Td> <Td> Ric Burns </Td> <Td> Ric Burns & James Sanders </Td> <Td> November 15, 1999 (1999 - 11 - 15) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> The city is the largest port in the country . Waves of Irish and German immigrants flood into the city between 1825 and 1865 only to find that New York is not so welcoming to immigrants . Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux shape the city with their design for Central Park but social unrest still ran high for the working classes, coming to a climax with the draft riots of 1863 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "Sunshine and Shadow (1865--1898)" </Td> <Td> Ric Burns </Td> <Td> Ric Burns & James Sanders </Td> <Td> November 16, 1999 (1999 - 11 - 16) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> The Gilded Age following the Civil War saw the rise of the robber barons and the schism between wealth and poverty widen dramatically . The political life of the city, exemplified by William M. Tweed and Tammany Hall descended into total corruption . As the turn of the century dawned, New York City annexes Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "The Power and the People (1898--1918)" </Td> <Td> Ric Burns </Td> <Td> Ric Burns & James Sanders </Td> <Td> November 17, 1999 (1999 - 11 - 17) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> As the city starts building the skyscrapers that would make its skyline iconic, 10 million immigrants arrive in New York . The immigrants lived in frequently squalid conditions and worked in the city's most undesirable jobs . In 1911, when 146 female Jewish and Italian immigrants died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the city was largely unified in the successful demand for legislation on new factory safety reforms and labor laws . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 5 </Th> <Td> "Cosmopolis (1919--1931)" </Td> <Td> Ric Burns </Td> <Td> Ron Blumer, Ric Burns & James Sanders </Td> <Td> November 18, 1999 (1999 - 11 - 18) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> Following World War I, Manhattan becomes the cultural capital of the world, serving as the home to the brand new industries of radio broadcasting, magazines, advertising and public relations . Major cultural contributions were made by F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, and the Harlem Renaissance was the banner under which an explosion of African American culture and creativity lived . As the Great Depression dawned, the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building were completed . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 6 </Th> <Td> "City of Tomorrow (1929--1941)" </Td> <Td> Ric Burns </Td> <Td> Ric Burns & James Sanders </Td> <Td> September 30, 2001 (2001 - 09 - 30) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> As the Great Depression took hold of the City, Mayor Jimmy Walker was forced to resign in disgrace, giving way to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, one of the most influential mayors in New York City history . Mayor La Guardia, along with Robert Moses, reshaped the city with the help of federal funds from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 7 </Th> <Td> "The City and the World (1945--2000)" </Td> <Td> Ric Burns </Td> <Td> Ric Burns & James Sanders </Td> <Td> October 1, 2001 (2001 - 10 - 01) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> In the aftermath of World War II, southern African - Americans moved north and Puerto Rican immigrants poured into the city, a trend which would continue for the next thirty years . Robert Moses waged a campaign of urban renewal, including adding highways to the city, hastening white flight to the suburbs . The destruction of the old Penn Station in 1963 and the protests against Moses's plans for the Lower Manhattan Expressway led to the creation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, ensuring the survival of New York's most architecturally important buildings and neighborhoods . Social and financial crises in the 1960s and 1970s took a toll on the city, but New York's revival since the 1970s has been enduring . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 8 </Th> <Td> "The Center of the World (1946--2003)" </Td> <Td> Ric Burns </Td> <Td> Ric Burns & James Sanders </Td> <Td> September 8, 2003 (2003 - 09 - 08) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> Tells the story of the rise and fall of the World Trade Center, and was produced following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 9 </Th> <Td> "The Future of Cities (2003--2018)" </Td> <Td> Ric Burns </Td> <Td> Ric Burns & James Sanders </Td> <Td> 2018 (2018) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> A dramatic and compelling consideration of the forces that have transformed New York at the start of the 21st century: the most stunning era of growth and change, challenge and opportunity since the events of September 11th, and since the New York series' last look at the city as a whole . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> No . </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "The Country and the City (1609--1825)" </Td> <Td> Ric Burns </Td> <Td> Ric Burns & James Sanders </Td> <Td> November 14, 1999 (1999 - 11 - 14) </Td> </Tr>

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