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Already established as Americas premier port, New York City swelled into the nations greatest industrial metropolis as a massive wave of German and Irish immigration turned the city into one of the worlds most complex urban environments, bringing with it a host of new social problems. Episode Two reveals how the citys artists, innovators and leaders, from poet Walt Whitman to Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux (the designers of Central Park) grappled with the citys growing conflicts -- which culminated in the catastrophic Civil War Draft Riots of 1863.