Includes index.

John Colman: Whodunit? The first recorded homicide -- Anneke Jans Bogardus: This land is our land -- John Bowne: Practicing what they preached -- Isaac Sears: America began in New York -- John Jay: The capital of capital -- Levi Weeks: The Manhattan well mystery -- Christian Harriot: The original road hogs -- Jacob Hays: The constant constable -- James Gordon Bennett: A penny for his thoughts -- David F. Launy: The first broken windows theory -- Thomas Downing: A man for all seasonings -- John Randel Jr.: The geek who invented gridlock -- John Hughes: The bully pulpit -- Charles O'Conor: Why Irish eyes were smiling -- Elizabeth Jennings: The right to ride -- The Bradley-Martins: After the ball was over -- Charles Dowd: The day of two noons -- Annie Moore: Coming to America -- Andrew H. Green: Brooklyn's great mistake -- William J. Wilgus: The making of Midtown -- Rudolph Aronson: "Remember me to Union Square" -- Philip A. Payton Jr.: Harlem on his mind -- Audrey Munson: The limitations of statues -- Clara Lemlich: The little lady who could -- Charles F. Murphy: The benevolent boss -- Ciro Terranova: The Mayor and the mobster -- Tex and Jinx: The birth of celebrity -- Lillian Edelstein: Moses: "Let my people stay!" -- Preston Wilcox: The pedigree of Black Power -- Jack Maple: The commonsense cop -- Carmelia Goffe: They built this city.