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Brooklyn Botanic Garden founded. Population: 1,634.351. [3] 1912 – Brooklyn Music School founded and owns and operates a four-story building located at 126 St. Felix St. that contains twenty-four classrooms, three dance studios, and a 266-seat Spanish Style theatre. 1913 – Ebbets Field stadium opens. 1914 – Church of St. Francis of Assisi ...
NY1 was the first regional news channel to be operated by Time Warner Cable prior to the acquisition of Charter Communications; the cable provider has since launched 24-hour news channels in several other markets that are modeled after NY1 (two of which, News 24 Houston and News 9 San Antonio, both operated as joint ventures between TWC and ...
St. Francis College is a Catholic college in Downtown Brooklyn founded in 1859 by Franciscan friars. Over 2,400 students attend the small liberal arts college. St. Francis is considered by The New York Times as one of the more diverse colleges, and was ranked one of the best baccalaureate colleges by Forbes magazine and U.S. News & World Report.
Launch Date Headquarters News 12 Long Island December 15, 1986 Bethpage, New York: News 12 Connecticut June 1995 Norwalk, Connecticut: News 12 Westchester October 1995 Yonkers, New York: News 12 New Jersey March 26, 1996 Edison, New Jersey: News 12 The Bronx June 1998 Bronx, New York: News 12 Brooklyn 2005 Bronx, New York News 12 Hudson Valley 2005
June 15: WPIX Channel 11 became the 5th television station in the city to signed on the air for the first time. First tenants move into Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, then the largest apartment complex in Manhattan. August 10: Channel 7 signed on the air for the first time, as WJZ-TV (now WABC-TV). New York City Ballet is founded.
1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
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European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608 and New Amsterdam was founded in 1624. The "Sons of Liberty" campaigned against British authority in New York City, and the Stamp Act Congress of representatives from throughout the Thirteen Colonies met in the city in 1765 to organize resistance to Crown policies. The city's strategic location ...