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1812 – New York City Hall built. [19] 1816 – American Bible Society founded. [21] 1817 New York Stock & Exchange Board [38] established. Staten Island Ferry established. 1818 Lyceum of Natural History established. [21] Brooks Brothers first opens on Catherine and Cherry Streets in Lower Manhattan. 1819 – Yellow fever epidemic occurs.
The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History (2005) online; Hood. Clifton. In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis (2016). Cover 1760–1970. Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale ...
Asian Americans in New York City, according to the 2010 census, number more than 1.2 million, [4] greater than the combined totals of San Francisco and Los Angeles. [263] New York has the largest Chinese population of any city outside Asia, [264] Manhattan's Chinatown is the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere ...
Five Points: the 19th-century New York City neighborhood that invented tap dance, stole elections, and became the world's most notorious slum (2001) Binder, Frederick M., and David M. Reimers. All the nations under heaven: an ethnic and racial history of New York City (1995) Burns, Ric, and James Sanders.
The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300055366.; second edition 2010; Jackson, Kenneth T. and Roberts, Sam (eds.) The Almanac of New York City (2008) Jaffe, Steven H. New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham (2012) Excerpt and text search; Lankevich, George J.
Independence Hall at night in January 2023 The reverse of the U.S. $100 bill, which has portrayed Independence Hall since 1928 On July 16, 1987, Congress met at Independence Hall in an unprecedented joint meeting outside of Washington, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Connecticut Compromise that determined the structure of Congress ...
If you’re paired up, though, we have bad news for you: The VIP couple’s package, at $15,000, is already sold out. Last year, it cost $12,500.
The New York City Symphony performed there from 1944 to about 1948, [141] [142] and the New York City Dance Theater only performed at the 55th Street theater during the 1949–1950 season. [146] The City Center Art Gallery operated between 1953 and 1961. [ 184 ]