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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.
The film Gangs of New York takes place during this time. Manhattan College incorporated. [19] Great American Tea Company in business. [22] 1865 Metropolitan Fire Department established. President Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession stops for a day, and Lincoln lies in state at City Hall; The Nation begins publication.
The Province of New York thrived during this time, its economy strengthened by Long Island and Hudson Valley agriculture, in conjunction with trade and artisanal activity at the Port of New York; the colony was a breadbasket and lumberyard for the British sugar colonies in the Caribbean. New York's population grew substantially during this ...
Gotham: a history of New York City to 1898 (Oxford University Press, 1998), The standard scholarly survey; 1390 pages; Crouthamel, James L. "The Newspaper Revolution in New York 1830-1860," New York History (1964) 45#2 pp. 91–113 in JSTOR; Gilfoyle, Timothy J. City of eros: New York City, prostitution, and the commercialization of sex, 1790 ...
The evolution of United States standard time zone boundaries from 1919 to 2024 in five-year increments. Plaque in Chicago marking the creation of the four time zones of the continental US in 1883 Colorized 1913 time zone map of the United States, showing boundaries very different from today Map of U.S. time zones during between April 2, 2006, and March 11, 2007.
The original Tompkins Square Riot occurs in New York City. [18] As unemployed workers demonstrated in New York City's Tompkins Square Park, a detachment of mounted police charged into the crowd, beating men, women and children indiscriminately with billy clubs and leaving hundreds of casualties in their wake. 1874 (United States)
The Liberal Party of New York won over five times as many votes as the American Labor Party in Manhattan, and eight-to-ten times as many in the other boroughs. The ALP lost its ballot status after the 1954 Governor's race , and voted to dissolve itself in 1956.
New York newspapers were read across the nation, particularly, the New York Tribune, edited by Horace Greeley, the voice of the new Republican Party. [30] As immigration increased in cities, poverty rose as well. The poorest crowded into low-cost housing such as the Five Points and Hell's Kitchen neighborhoods in Manhattan.