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Still, Bayrd, ed. Mirror for Gotham: New York as Seen by Contemporaries from Dutch Days to the Present (New York University Press, 1956) online edition Stokes, I.N. Phelps. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps plans views and documents in ...
January 1: City of Greater New York created, consolidating the existing City of New York with the eastern Bronx, Brooklyn, most of Queens County, and Staten Island. January 1: Robert A. Van Wyck becomes mayor. National Arts Club founded. 1899 July 20: The Park Row Building is completed, becoming the tallest in New York City, at 391 ft. (119 m ...
Gotham: a history of New York City to 1898 (Oxford University Press, 1998), The standard scholarly survey; 1390 pages; Crouthamel, James L. "The Newspaper Revolution in New York 1830-1860," New York History (1964) 45#2 pp. 91–113 in JSTOR; Gilfoyle, Timothy J. City of eros: New York City, prostitution, and the commercialization of sex, 1790 ...
The five boroughs: 1: Manhattan, 2: Brooklyn, 3: Queens, 4: The Bronx, 5: Staten Island. The neighborhoods in New York City are located within the five boroughs of the City of New York. Their names and borders are not officially defined, and they change from time to time. [1]
Times Square, in Manhattan Following is an alphabetical list of notable buildings, sites and monuments located in New York City in the United States. The borough is indicated in parentheses. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2012) American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan) Rose Center for Earth and Space America's Response Monument (Manhattan) Apollo ...
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]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A simmering feud between New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and her handpicked lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, has boiled over after months of discord between the two Democrats ...
The first New York NHLs were eight designated on October 9, 1960; the latest was designated on January 13, 2021. The NHLs and other landmarks outside NYC are listed below; the NHLs in NYC are in this companion article. Seven NHL sites are among the 20 National Park System historic areas in New York state. [4]