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Populations before 1898 are for the areas now enclosed in the present boroughs. Since 1914, each of New York City's five boroughs has been coextensive with a county of New York State – unlike most U.S. cities, which lie within a single county or extend partially into another county, constitute a county in themselves, or are completely ...
The historical atlas of New York City: A visual celebration of 400 years of New York City's history (Macmillan, 2005) Jackson, Kenneth D. Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd ed. 2010); a massive compendium of authoritative short articles; Laster, Margaret R., and Chelsea Bruner, eds. New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age (2018)
The Woolworth Building, built in 1913. The modern five boroughs, comprising the city of New York, were united in 1898. In that year, the cities of New York—which then consisted of present-day Manhattan and the Bronx—and Brooklyn were both consolidated with the counties of Queens and Staten Island. [3]
Free Academy of the City of New York founded (later City College of New York). [21] [7] Madison Square Park and Astor Opera House open. Grace Church built. 1848 pencil drawing of a side and top view of a needlefish caught in New York, N.Y., drawn by Jacques Burkhardt. 1848 December: Cholera outbreak begins, its spread initially limited by ...
New York City: After Brenda Berkman's requests for a firefighting test that was fairer for women were ignored, she filed Brenda Berkman, et al. v. The City of New York and won. [240] A new test was created in which standards were changed so the test was job-related and Brenda with 40 other women passed to enter the fire academy in 1982. [241]
During this period, New York City was a site of the September 11 attacks of 2001; 2,606 people who were in the towers and in the surrounding area were killed by a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, an event considered highly traumatic for the city but which did not stop the city's rapid regrowth.
The superlative demographics of NYC’s five boroughs have been freshly mapped. A free, interactive online tool managed by the Department of City Planning has been updated with 2020 Census data ...
The Bronx was annexed from Westchester County by New York County (and New York City) in 1874 (west of Bronx River) and 1895 (east of it).Those two parts were established as a separate borough upon the consolidation of Greater New York in 1898, but was not legally established as a separate county, Bronx County, until 1914.