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In the 1930s, Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers from General Drafting Co. were making a road map of New York state. They decided to make up a fictitious hamlet called “Agloe”, and marked it ...
New York, long a great American city with many immigrants, became a culturally international city with the brain drain of intellectual, musical, and artistic European refugees that started in the late 1930s. The 1939 New York World's Fair, marking the 150th anniversary of George Washington's inauguration in Federal Hall, was a high point of ...
The earliest surviving map of the area now known as New York City is the Manatus Map, depicting what is now Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey in the early days of New Amsterdam. [7] The Dutch colony was mapped by cartographers working for the Dutch Republic. New Netherland had a position of surveyor general.
40 Wall Street (also the Trump Building; formerly the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building and Manhattan Company Building) is a 927-foot-tall (283 m) neo-Gothic skyscraper on Wall Street between Nassau and William streets in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City, New York. Erected in 1929–1930 as the headquarters of the Manhattan ...
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The Chrysler Building from the Empire State Building, both erected as part of New York City's 1920s building boom. In the mid-1920s, New York's metropolitan area surpassed London's as the world's most populous metropolitan area [116] and its population exceeded ten million by the early 1930s. [117]
1930s in sports in New York City (10 C) W. West Side Line (11 P) Pages in category "1930s in New York City" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
A possible Lenape canoe, the only dugout ever found in Manhattan, was excavated by New York Edison workers in 1906 in Cherry Hill by the intersection with Oliver Street, at the original shoreline. [1] [2] The street was named for the 7-acre (28,000 m 2) cherry orchard that was planted by David Provoost, who originally owned the land.