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1905 Upington's General Directory Borough of Brooklyn (Vol. 82) ... Brooklyn City Directory for 1856–7, With a General Business Directory Combined; ...
The New-York Directory, published in 1786, was the first extant directory for New York City and the third published in the United States.It listed 846 names. A year earlier, the first two in the country were published in Philadelphia – the first, compiled by Francis White, was initially printed October 27, 1785, [1] [2] [3] and the second, compiled by John Macpherson (1726–1792), was ...
Queens Directories – of New York City – were, before 1898, an assortment of village directories, Queens County directories, Long Island Directories, and add-ins or partial inclusions to New York City directories. In 1898, 30% of the western part of the old Queens County was absorbed into New York City.
1910 directory page for North Adams Street, Peoria, Illinois. A city directory is a listing of residents, streets, businesses, organizations or institutions, giving their location in a city. It may be arranged alphabetically or geographically or in other ways.
Known for his work exposing corruption in the New York City police department and the criminal justice system. Irma Lozada: No freely licensed image available: 1959–1984 1980–1984 First female police officer to die in the line of duty in New York City. Thomas J. Manton: 1932–2006 1955–1960 Later became a U.S. Congressman. Barney Martin ...
The Woolworth Building, built in 1913. The modern five boroughs, comprising the city of New York, were united in 1898. In that year, the cities of New York—which then consisted of present-day Manhattan and the Bronx—and Brooklyn were both consolidated with the counties of Queens and Staten Island. [3]
This is the last census where the City of Brooklyn is counted as an independent city. Brooklyn would be politically absorbed into New York City in 1898 and have its population counted as a component of the latter city's figure from the Twelfth census onward. 5 St. Louis: Missouri: 451,770: 6 Boston: Massachusetts: 448,477: 7 Baltimore: Maryland ...
1898 – (1 January) City of Brooklyn becomes one of five boroughs (Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, Staten Island), of the new reorganized City of Greater New York, with a new municipal charter after a long controversy, debate and campaign through the 1890s. [3] Consolidation was opposed by the city's main daily newspaper, the Brooklyn Daily ...