American Experience

New York (3): Sunshine and Shadow

E3    Nov 16, 1999    55m    TV-PG
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"Sunshine and Shadow: 1865-1898" During the Gilded Age, New York "was home to the greatest concentration of wealth in human history," says narrator David Ogden Stiers. And, he adds, "the greatest concentration of poverty." This episode surveys that dichotomy, from Fifth Avenue mansions to slums documented by Jacob Riis in "How the Other Half Lives." Also recalled: the fall of William H. "Boss" Tweed ("he took a fall for the system," claims Pete Hamill).
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Cast of New York (3): Sunshine and Shadow
  • David Ogden StiersNarrator (voice)
  • David MarguliesSelf (voice)
  • George PlimptonSelf (voice)
  • Frances SternhagenSelf (voice)

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