Chapter 45

New York's JoJo is the forty-fifth chapter of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. It is also the first chapter of Part II: Battle Tendency.

Summary
Battle Tendency is set in 1938. Speedwagon  is a rich oil tycoon, Straights succeeded Tonpeti  as master of hamon. Speedwagon called Straights to show a discovery made in an ancient pyramid in Mexico that has to do with the  Stone Mask. Meanwhile Joseph Joestar lives in New York with his grandmother Erina Pendleton (wife of Jonathan Joestar) and to save a boy (smokey) from the barrel of two corrupt cops use the hamon, demonstrating the ability to have inherited from his grandfather Jonathan Joestar.