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The North American blizzard of 1996 was a severe nor'easter that paralyzed the United States East Coast with up to 4 feet (1.2 m) of wind-driven snow from January 6 to January 8, 1996. The City University of New York reported that the storm "dropped 20 inches of snow, had wind gusts of 50 mph and snow drifts up to 8 feet high." [2]
Ninth Avenue derailment. Lexington Avenue explosion. 2006 plane crash. Great Fire of New York (1835) 2007 steam explosion. Harlem riot of 1964. US Airways Flight 1549. This is a list of disasters that have occurred in New York City organized by death toll. The list is general and comprehensive, comprising natural disasters (including epidemics ...
The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978[ 1 ][ 2 ] was a catastrophic, historic nor'easter that struck New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the New York metropolitan area. The Blizzard of '78 formed on Sunday, February 5, 1978 and broke up on February 7. [ 3 ] The storm was initially known as "Storm Larry" in Connecticut, following ...
At least 43 people died in New York City as a result of the storm, and 53 in the state. Thousands of homes and an estimated 250,000 vehicles were destroyed during the storm, and the economic losses in New York City were estimated to be roughly $19 billion [3] with an estimated $32.8 billion required for restoration across the state. [4]
In July 1978, a possible structural flaw was discovered in Citicorp Center, a skyscraper that had recently been completed in New York City. Workers quietly made repairs over the next few months. The building, now known as Citigroup Center, occupied an entire block and was to be the headquarters of Citibank. Its structure, designed by William ...
Arthur Kornberg, who graduated from the City College of New York, a senior college of CUNY, in 1937, was the first CUNY laureate, winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959. [7] Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle , both of whom graduated from the City College in 1937 with Kornberg, jointly won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in ...
The City College of New York: 150 years of academic architecture, 1997. Roff, Sandra S., et al. From the Free Academy to Cuny: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City, 1847–1997, 2000. Rudy, Willis. College of the City of New York 1847–1947. The City College Press, 1949. Reprinted in 1977 by the Arno Press. Traub, James.
1980–1989. May 2, 1983 - A F3 tornado touched down in Boonville, New York, the most intense tornado recorded in Oneida County. [ 7 ] May 31, 1985 – A large F4 tornado touched down in Erie County in Pennsylvania, before crossing the Pennsylvania-New York state line into Chautauqua County.