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Directed by
Ric Burns

Produced by
Lisa Ades, Ric Burns and Steve Rivo

Written by
Ric Burns & James Sanders

Episode Five written by
Ric Burns & James Sanders and Ron Blumer

Edited by
Li-Shin Yu, Edward Barteski, David Hanser, Nina Schulman and Juliana Parroni

Cinematography by
Buddy Squires and Allen Moore

Music by
Brian Keane

Senior Producer
Kate Roth Knull

Associate Producers
Ray Segal, and Robin Espinola

Co-Director, Episodes One through Five
Lisa Ades

Narrated by
David Ogden Stiers

Associate Producers, Episodes One through Four; Co-Producers, Episode Five
Steve Rivo and Ray Segal

Additional Editing
Richard Hankin

Associate Editors
Michael Balabuch, Janet Cristenfeld, Syndi Pilar

Sound Editors
Ira Spiegel and Marlene Grzaslewicz

Coordinating Producer
Kerry Herman

Production Coordinator
Justine Bertucelli and Daryl Gammons

Series Archivist
Robin Espinola

Footage Archivists
Daniel Vatsky, Hilary Klotz, Corrinne Collette and Lewanne Jones

Assistant Producers
Lily Thorne and Danna Liebert

Researchers
Meghan Horvath, Anya Sirota and Sujin Seo

Research Assistants
Marijke Smit, Zachary Kaiman, Jenks Whittenburg

Assistant Editors
Roxanne Yamashiro, Anna Josenhans, June Shiiki, Josh Sternfeld, Samara Smith, Sarah Kaylor, Mick Gormaley

Apprentice Editors
Judd Erlich, Kramer O'Neill

Editorial Assistants
Flavia de Sousa, Jacob Steingroot

Additional Cinematography
Roger Sherman, David Ford, Stephen McCarthy, Don Lenzer

Assistant Camera
David Ford, Anthony Savini, John Tanzer, Andrew Yarme

Sound Recording
John Zecca, Mark Mandler, Roger Phoenix, Mark Roy, Dean Sarjeant

Fiscal Sponsor
City Lore Inc.

Communications Consultants
Phyllis Schwartz and Michael Shepley

Senior Creative Consultant
Geoffrey C. Ward

Senior Historical Consultants
Kenneth T. Jackson and Mike Wallace

Senior Research Consultants
Jeanne Houck and Robert W. Snyder

Historical Consultants
Thomas Bender, Marshall Berman, Hope Cooke, Daniel Czitrom, Graham Hodges, Margo Jefferson, David Levering Lewis, Phillip Lopate, John Hull Mollenkopf, Kathy Peiss, Virginia Sanchez-Korrol, Richard Snow, Robert A. M. Stern, Sam Bass Warner, Carol Willis, Steve Zeitlin

Voice-Over Recording
Lou Verrico, A&J Recording Studios, Inc.
Michael Klinger at Waves Sound Recorders
Project One Audio
Don Ross Productions

On-Screen Commentators
Ruth Abram, Thomas Bender, Carol Berkin, Marshall Berman, Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, Robert A.Caro, Caleb Carr, Daniel Czitrom, Ann Douglas, E. L. Doctorow, Joshua Freeman, Brendan Gill, Allen Ginsberg, John Steele Gordon, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Nancy Groce, Pete Hamill, Kenneth T. Jackson, Margo Jefferson, Alfred Kazin, Tony Kushner, Fran Lebowitz, David Levering Lewis, Phillip Lopate, David McCullough, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Albert Murray, Kathy Peiss, Peter Quinn, Luc Sante, Gretchen Sorin, Robert A. M. Stern, Martin Scorsese, Joel Silverman, Christine Stansell, Jean Strouse, John Kuo Wei Tchen, George W. S. Trow, Donald Trump, Mike Wallace, Craig Steven Wilder, Carol Willis

Voices
Joan Allen, Philip Bosco, Andre Codrescu, Keith David, Janeane Garofalo, Paul Giamatti, Spalding Gray, Gene Jones, James Hazeldine, Frederic Kimball, Robert Sean Leonard, David Margulies, Frank McCourt, Patrick McGrath, Joe Morton, George Plimpton, Isaiah Sheiffer, Ron Silver, Frances Sternhagen, Callie Thorne, Eli Wallach, Harris Yulin

Executive Producer for American Experience
Margaret Drain

Executive Producer for WGBH
Judy Crichton

Executive Producer
Ric Burns

Funders
Major support for the series is provided by The Chase Manhattan Corporation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Ford Foundation, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Public Television Viewers and PBS, and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. Additional funding is provided by the J. M. Kaplan Fund, and the Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation Inc., Rosalind P. Walter, Central Parking Corporation, Glenwood Management Corporation, Judith and Burton Resnick, The Sheldon H. Solow Foundation, and Alan Wiener/American Property Financing Inc.

International Partners
Foreign broadcast partners include Channel 4, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and MTV3-Finland.

Companion Volume
NEW YORK: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY by Ric Burns and James Sanders with Lisa Ades, published by Alfred A. Knopf, November 1999.

Soundtrack CD
Musical selections from the series will be available from RCA Victor

Home Video
Five two-hour cassettes offered by PBS Home Video

Closed Captioning
American Experience is closed captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers by The Caption Center at WGBH.

This film would not have been possible without the extraordinary collections and assistance of the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York, the Library of Congress, and The New York Public Library.

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