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The New York store also housed a large organ; it was sold at auction in 1955 for $1,200 (~$10,655 in 2023) after the New York store closed the year prior. [10] News of the Titanic's sinking was transmitted to Wanamaker's wireless station in New York City, and given to anxious crowds waiting outside—yet another first for an American retail ...
770 Broadway was built between 1903 and 1907 and was designed by Daniel Burnham as an annex to the original Wanamaker's department store in New York, which was across 9th Street to the north. [8] The two buildings were connected by a sky bridge, dubbed the "Bridge of Progress", as well as a tunnel under 9th Street.
District 91 is in Westchester County. It includes the towns of Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Rye, Rye Brook, Port Chester, and portions of New Rochelle. The district is entirely within New York's 16th congressional district, and overlaps the 34th and 37th districts of the New York State Senate.
Carnegie sold off lots to individuals who agreed to build substantial dwellings, and in 1903, a home was built at 9 East 91st Street by John H. Hammond, a New York City banker. The land, and possibly the house, was a wedding gift to Hammond and his wife (Emily Vanderbilt Sloane) from her father, William Douglas Sloane of the firm W. & J. Sloane ...
New York City has its own microculture, made up of tip-demanding cabbies, incredible restaurants, brusque deli owners, spendy museums, hedonistic rooftops and straight-off-the-screen sights.
91-93 Fifth Avenue is an eight-story store and loft building between 16th and 17th Streets in the Ladies’ Mile Historic District of Manhattan in New York City. The building was designed by Louis Korn for Henry and Samuel Corn [ 1 ] and built between 1895 and 1896.
The sick suspected stabber – a mentally ill homeless man with eight past arrests in New York City alone – was stopped by a hero cop thanks to the help of good Samaritans, including a cab ...
Among the world's most prestigious indoor track meets, the games started taking place at the Armory in Washington Heights in 2012, after having taken place in Madison Square Garden from 1914 to 2011. [1] The games were started when employees of the New York City branch of Wanamaker's department store formed the Millrose Track Club to hold a meet.