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The Great Fire of New York was a devastating fire that burned through the night of September 20, 1776, and into the morning of September 21, on the West Side of what then constituted New York City at the southern end of the island of Manhattan. [3]
The Battle of Harlem Heights, September 16, 1776. On August 27, 1776, British troops under the command of General William Howe flanked and defeated the American army at the Battle of Long Island. [5] Howe moved his forces and pinned the Americans down at Brooklyn Heights, with the East River to the American rear.
The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16, 1776. The city, greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York during the campaign, became the British military and political center of operations in North America for the remainder of the war. [29]
The St. Nicholas Historic District, known colloquially as "Striver's Row", [3] is a historic district located on both sides of West 138th and West 139th Streets between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue), in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City.
December 8: A long racial dispute in Harlem over the eviction of an African-American record store-owner by a Jewish proprietor ends in murder and arson. 51-year-old Roland Smith Jr., angry over the proposed eviction, set fire to Freddie's Fashion Mart on 125th Street and opened fire on the store's employees, killing 7 and wounding four. Smith ...
Eldridge Street is a street in the Lower East Side and Chinatown neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, running from Houston Street in the north to East Broadway in the south. Originally called Third Street according to the numbering system for the Delancey Farm Grid, it was named in 1817 for Lt. Joseph C. Eldridge, whose unit was ...
Fort Washington was a fortified position near the north end of Manhattan Island, at the island's highest point, within the modern-day neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York City. The Fort Washington Site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Manhattan, Brooklyn Colton Map 1853 J. H. Colton: Manhattan, Long Island, Bronx, New Jersey, Staten Island New York Bay and Harbor, 1861 1861 United States Coast Guard Manhattan, Long Island (Brooklyn & Queens), Bronx, New Jersey, Staten Island Dripps Map 1863 Matthew Dripps Manhattan, Brooklyn Viele Map 1865 Egbert Ludovicus Viele: Rogers Map ...