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Pages in category "1920 establishments in New York City" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. ... 200th Street station;
1920 in New York City (2 C, 3 P) 1921 in New York City (2 C, 1 P) 1922 in New York City (2 C, 1 P) ... 133rd Street (Manhattan) A. Art Deco architecture of New York ...
By 1917, New York was funding the world war efforts of Britain, France and for other Allies. By the 1920s, New York had surpassed London as a world banking center. The New York Stock Exchange was the national focus of wealth making and speculation until its shares suddenly collapsed late in 1929, setting off the worldwide Great Depression. [90]
Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which had filled in the freshwater lake known as the Collect Pond, was generally defined as being bound by Centre Street to the west, the Bowery to the east, Canal Street to the north, and Park Row to the south.
New York with its New York Central Railroad came out on top, ensuring the city's continued dominance of the international trade of the interior of the United States. As the West and East sides of Manhattan became more populated, local railroads were elevated or depressed to escape road traffic, and the intercity railroads abandoned their ...
New York Railways: 86th Street Crosstown Line: Upper West Side: East 92nd Street Ferry: 86th Street and York Avenue New York and Harlem Railroad from 1920 to 1932; [4] Bustitution on June 8, 1936 (now the M86 bus) Third Avenue Railway: 110th Street Crosstown Line: Fort Lee Ferry: East Harlem: 125th Street, St. Nicholas Avenue, and 110th Street ...
The Five Points Gang was a criminal street gang, initially of primarily Irish-American origins, based in the Five Points of Lower Manhattan, New York City, during the late 19th and early 20th century. [1] The gang had its origin in the various Irish immigrant and Irish-American gangs in the Five Points area.
John C. Walker,The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones at Tammany 1920:1970, New York: State University New York Press, 1989. David N. Dinkins, A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic, PublicAffairs Books, 2013; Rangel, Charles B.; Wynter, Leon (2007). And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress ...