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1812 – New York City Hall built. [19] 1816 – American Bible Society founded. [21] 1817 New York Stock & Exchange Board [38] established. Staten Island Ferry established. 1818 Lyceum of Natural History established. [21] Brooks Brothers first opens on Catherine and Cherry Streets in Lower Manhattan. 1819 – Yellow fever epidemic occurs.
Government institutions, including the New York City Police Department and the public schools, were established in the 1840s and 1850s to respond to growing demands of residents. [40] In 1831, New York University was founded by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin as a non-denominal institution surrounding Washington Square Park.
The New York City Department of Records and Information Services (DoRIS) is the department of the government of New York City [4] that organizes and stores records and information from the City Hall Library and Municipal Archives. [5] It is headquartered in the Surrogate's Courthouse in Civic Center, Manhattan.
The New York City Bar Association had advocated the construction of a new Hall of Records as early as 1889. [60] A grand jury reported in March 1896 that the old Hall of Records was "unsafe and susceptible to destruction by fire". [61] [64] The New York City Department of Health reportedly "repeatedly condemned" conditions in the old building. [25]
The Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights can all be found there. There's a secret room inside Mount Rushmore that stores important US documents Skip to main content
Cutler, William W. “Status, Values and the Education of the Poor: The Trustees of the New York Public School Society, 1805-1853.” American Quarterly 24#1 (1972), pp. 69–85. online; Edgell, Derek. The Movement for Community Control of New York City's Schools, 1966–1970: Class Wars, (Edwin Mellen Press, 1998). 532pp.
New York City is an established safe haven for global investors. [30] As of 2023, New York City is the most expensive city in the world for expatriates [31] and has by a wide margin the highest residential rents of any city in the nation; [32] and Fifth Avenue is the most expensive shopping street in the world. [33]
Five Points: the 19th-century New York City neighborhood that invented tap dance, stole elections, and became the world's most notorious slum (2001) Binder, Frederick M., and David M. Reimers. All the nations under heaven: an ethnic and racial history of New York City (1995) Burns, Ric, and James Sanders.