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A US Airways airplane crashed into the Hudson River on January 15, 2008 after geese apparently entered the engines causing them to malfunction just minutes after takeoff. Incredibly, every single ...
The last game played at Shea Stadium was a loss to the Florida Marlins on September 28, 2008. There was a "Shea Goodbye" tribute after the game in which many players from the Mets glory years appea...
With Andy Pettitte as the starting pitcher, the Yankees played their final game at Yankee Stadium on September 21, 2008 against the Baltimore Orioles, recording the final out at 11.43pm EDT with a ...
A final design for the tower was formally unveiled on June 28, 2006. To satisfy security issues raised by the New York City Police Department a 187-foot (57 m) concrete base was added in April of t...
The September 11 attacks were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 Islamist terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda hija...
Silicon Alley is a nickname for an area with a concentration of Internet and new media companies in Manhattan, New York City. Originally, the term referred to the cluster of such companies extendin...
The events leading up to the blackout began at 8:37 p.m. EDT on July 13 with a lightning strike at Buchanan South, a substation on the Hudson River, tripping two circuit breakers in Westchester Cou...
Philippe Petit (born August 13, 1949) is a French high wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers in New York City on August 7, 1974. He used a 450-pound cable to d...
Philippe Petit (born August 13, 1949) is a French high wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers in New York City on August 7, 1974. On August 7, 1974, shortly af...
During the post-World War II period, the United States thrived economically, with increasing international trade. At the time, economic growth in New York City was concentrated in Midtown Manhattan...
Originally to be called "Flushing Meadow Park Municipal Stadium" – the name of the public park on which it was built – but a movement was launched to name it in honor of William A. Shea, the man wh...
At 9:40 a.m. on Saturday, July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted in thick fog by Lieutenant Colonel William F. Smith, Jr., crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building, between ...
The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human r...
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st streets in New York City. Built by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the center of Midtown ...
The GE Building is an Art Deco skyscraper that forms the centerpiece of the Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan. Known as the RCA Building until 1988, it is famous for housing the headquarters ...
The names "Radio City" and "Radio City Music Hall" derive from one of the complex's first tenants, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). Radio City Music Hall was a project of Rockefeller; Samuel...
Excavation of the site began on January 22, 1930, and construction on the building itself started symbolically on March 17—St.Patrick's Day —per Al Smith's influence as Empire State, Inc. president...
As construction was completed on May 28, 1930, the added height of the spire allowed the Chrysler Building to surpass 40 Wall Street as the tallest building in the world and the Eiffel Tower as the...
Three phrases—Black Thursday, Black Monday, and Black Tuesday—are used to describe this collapse of stock values. All three are appropriate, for the crash was not a one-day affair. The initial cras...
The group was founded in St. Louis, Missouri by Russell Markert in 1925, and originally performed as the "Missouri Rockets". Markert had been inspired by the John Tiller Girls in the Ziegfeld Folli...
The Harlem Renaissance had a profound impact not only on African-American culture but also on the cultures of the African diaspora as a whole. Afro-Caribbean artists and intellectuals from the Brit...
The original Yankee Stadium is a stadium located in The Bronx in New York City, New York. It served as the home baseball park of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees from 1923 through 2008. Lo...
Time magazine was launched in midtown by two Yale graduates named Henry Luce and Britton Hadden. It was the first weekly magazine of it's time. Hadden and Luce began their publishing careers at Yal...
In a Greenwhich Village basement, DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace founded Reader's Digest. It is considered to be one of the best-selling consumer magazines in the US, despite declining circulation...
At noon, a horse-drawn wagon passed by lunchtime crowds on Wall Street in New York City. The wagon then stopped across the street from the headquarters of the J.P. Morgan Inc. bank at 23 Wall Stree...
New York City became the most populous city in the world in 1925, overtaking London, which had reigned for a century.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York maintains a vault that lies 86 feet (26 m) below sea level, resting on Manhattan bedrock. By 1927, the vault contained ten percent of the world's official gold ...
The Woolworth Building, at 57 stories, is one of the oldest—and one of the most famous—skyscrapers in New York City. It was dubbed the Cathedral of Commerce for its soaring vertically and Gothic - ...
Grand Central Terminal (GCT, often popularly called Grand Central Station or simply Grand Central) is a terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Built ...
Designed by McKim, Mead and White, it was larger than the ancient Roman baths of Caracalla on which it had been modeled. The best-known and first to bear the name is New York City's Penn Station. T...
The Plaza Hotel in New York City is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel with a height of 250 feet (76 m) and length of 400 feet (120 m) that occupies the west side of Grand Army Plaza, from which it d...
The New Year’s Eve Ball first descended from a flagpole at One Times Square, constructed with iron and wood materials with 100 25-watt bulbs weighing 700 pounds (320 kg) and measuring 5 feet (1.5 m...
The first underground line of the subway opened on October 27, 1904, almost 35 years after the opening of the first elevated line in New York City, which became the IRT Ninth Avenue Line. The oldes...
Most New Yorkers don't look nor do they expect to find art in various subway stations. But at the time of the IRT installation, in 1904, the terra cotta art work on the walls served a specific purp...
The Flatiron Building, which when constructed was called the Fuller Building, was one of the tallest buildings in New York City upon its completion in 1902 and is considered one of the first skyscr...
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Monument commemorates Union Army soldiers and sailors who served in the American Civil War. It is located at 89th street and Riverside Drive in Riverside Park in...
The Astor Library was created by John Jacob Astor, an immigrant who became the wealthiest man in America. When he died in 1848, he left $400,000 in his will for the establishment of a library in Ne...
In 1898, the modern City of New York was formed with the consolidation of Brooklyn (until then an independent city), Manhattan and outlying areas. Manhattan and the Bronx, though still one county, ...
Just before the former president, Ulysses S. Grant died, he had spent the last years of his life in New York and indicated his desire to be buried there. In 1897 a vast neoclassical structure - the...
In 1890 William Waldorf Astor decided to raze the family mansion on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street and commissioned Henry J. Hardenbergh to build the largest, most luxurious hotel in th...
Located at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, is the location of what was at one time the main entry facility for immigrants entering the United States. Made of brick, stone and stee...
was an American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and T...
Fund-raising for the pedestal, led by William M. Evarts, was going slowly, so Hungarian-born publisher Joseph Pulitzer (who established the Pulitzer Prize) opened up the editorial pages of his news...
The Dakota, constructed from October 25, 1880 to October 27, 1884,[3] is an apartment building located on the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in New York City. The architectur...
In 1686 when the area was still a wilderness, New York's colonial governor Thomas Dongan designated the area now known as Bryant Park as a public space. George Washington's troops crossed the area ...
The Hotel Chelsea is a well-known residence for artists, musicians, and writers in the neighborhood of Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City. It is located at 222 West 23rd Street, between Seventh an...
Construction began January 3, 1870. The Brooklyn Bridge was completed thirteen years later and was opened for use on May 24, 1883. On that first day, a total of 1,800 vehicles and 150,300 people cr...
first appeared in print on September 22, 1881 when a New York Times reporter went to the West 30s with a police guide to get details of a multiple murder there. He referred to a particularly infamo...
Longacre Square was at the intersection in Midtown Manhattan of 42nd Street, Blooming dale Road and Seventh Avenue. Originally named Long Acre by the British colonists, it was a nexus of important ...
In efforts to raise money for the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, the hand and torch were brought to New York and placed in Madison Square (Park). The efforts for New Yorkers to help pay for the pede...
On September 20, 1873 reckless investments in North American railroads had put a strain on the European bond markets resulting ultimately in the Northern Pacific line to go under, triggering a fina...
Washington Square Park is one of the best-known of New York City's 1,700 public parks. It is a landmark in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village, as well as a meeting place and center for...
Barnum was an American showman remembered for hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Barnum never flinched from his stated goal "to put money ...
"The Ladies Mile" was considered the greatest shopping district in the world stretching from 23rd Street down to 14th Street. It was considered the SoHo of its time. During this time department sto...
Known at the time of draft week, July 11 - July 16 1863 were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in ...
The park was not part of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811; however, between 1821 and 1855, New York City nearly quadrupled in population. As the city expanded, people were drawn to the few open spac...
Boss Tweed was born April 3, 1823, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Son to a chair-maker of Scottish-Irish descent, Tweed made his entrance into politics when he organized the Americus Fire Com...
In 1696, Governor Benjamin Fletcher approved the purchase of land in Lower Manhattan by the Church of England community for construction of a new church. The parish received its charter from King W...
It was into this stable Protestant middle American society of stockbrokers, guildsmen, bankers, artisans, craftsmen, merchants, shippers, porters, and shopkeepers, and well paid laborers, all opera...
First established by Horace Greeley in 1841, which was long considered one of the leading newspapers in the United States. In 1924 it was merged with the New York Herald to form the New York Herald...
James Gordon Bennett launched the first "modern" newspaper of its time which included not only weather reports, sports and finance but as well as reports of murders and suicides. It gained populari...
Gramercy Park was originally a swamp. Samuel B. Ruggles bought what was then farmland from James Duane in 1831. Originally, in 1831, he gave 42 lots of property to the first Board of Trustees of th...
In 1831, as the city continued to expand, the University of the City of New York, now New York University, was founded at Washington Square in Greenwich Village. On April 21, 1831, the new institu...
The Erie Canal is a waterway in New York state that runs about 365 miles from the Hudson River to Lake Erie, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. First proposed in 1808, it was under...
The Garment District is the name of a neighborhood in New York City, located between Fifth and Ninth Avenues from 34th to 42nd Street. New York is the fashion capital of the United States, generati...
De Witt Clinton, a ten term mayor appointed a three- man commission to develop a blueprint of massive grid of the entire island comprised of 12 avenues and 155 streets long covering 11,000 acres an...
Vanderbilt began working on ferries in and around New York as a young boy, quitting school at age 11. By age 16 he was operating his own business—after having borrowed $100 from his mother—ferrying...
Washington Irving, the American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" woul...
The first steamboat by Robert Fulton cast off from Pier 14's Hudson River dock. Though admittedly a strange looking vessel, built for speed, it overtook many sloops and schooners, make them look as...
The name of the street derives from the fact that during the 17th century, Wall Street formed the northern boundary of the New Amsterdam settlement. In the 1640s basic picket and plank fences denot...
New York City became the first capital of the newly formed United States on September 13, 1788 under the U.S. Constitutional Convention. On April 30, 1789 the first President of the United States, ...
On September 15, 1776, British forces under General William Howe occupied New York City. In the early hours of September 21, fire broke out in the city, most likely in the Fighting Cocks Tavern at ...
A chapel of the Parish of Trinity Church, St. Paul's was built on land granted by Queen Anne of Great Britain, and Andrew Gautier served as the master craftsman. Upon completion in 1766, it stood i...
St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in New York City for the first time at the Crown and Thistle Tavern on March 17, 1756. This holiday has since become a yearly city-wide celebration that is famous a...
In 1754, Columbia University was founded under charter by King George II as King's College in Lower Manhattan. Trinity Church schoolyard, the first home of King's College c.1755
He owned the only newpaper in the city, 'The New York Weekly Journal'. He printed another man's document that criticized William Cosby, Governor of New York, who had him arrested on a charge of sed...
In 1664, the English conquered the area and renamed it "New York" after the Duke of York and Albany.
Stuyvesant's accomplishments as director-general included a great expansion for the settlement of New Netherlands (later renamed New York) beyond the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the projects b...
The building of the fort commenced in 1625, under the direction of Willem Verhulst, the second director of the New Netherland colony and his chief engineer Cryn Fredericksz. By the end of the year,...
The town was founded in 1625 by New Netherland's second director, Willem Verhulst who, together with his council, selected Manhattan Island as the optimal place for permanent settlement by the Dutc...
European settlement began with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement in Lower Manhattan in 1613.
It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, that the area was mapped.[4] He discovered Manhattan Island on September 12, 1609, and contin...
According to his journals, he sailed along the coast of present-day New Jersey and entered Lower New York Bay. He anchored in The Narrows, the strait between Staten Island and Long Island, where he...
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