Suozzi, who had previously held the seat before resigning to mount an ultimately unsuccessful run for New York governor, was one of at least 19 people who had filed to run for Santos' former seat. The congressional district includes part of New York City's Qu...
24 spread quickly through the borough. What the panic was about, however, wasn’t exactly clear. Nov. 2, 1929 cover by Constantin Alajalov. There was fear in the air, and a hint of doom, when E.B. White submitted his “Notes and Comment” section for the Nov. 2 issue. Having ...
which rose from the rubble of the old Waldorf-Astoria hotel and perhaps more than any building served as a giant exclamation point for the 20th century metropolis. Chappell did not buy developers’ claims regarding the building’s “mooring mast,” calling it a “silly gesture”...
New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Death Certificates; Borough: Bronx; Year: 1945, Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S
it was identified first in military personnel in the spring of 1918. It is estimated that over 500 million people or 1/3 of the population of the world at that time became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million around the world with about...
MAKE WAY FOR THE GIANTS…City engineers had been kicking around plans since 1916 to build bridges to connect Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, but the massive Triborough Bridge project finally got off the ground in 1930. By 1934 the bridge’s Queens tower (left) would loom over Ward’s Isl...
shows that had little new to offer, save for amping up the salacious content:A Primer for Lovers,The Amorous Antic,andYoung Sinners.Audiences were unimpressed.A Primer for Loversclosed after just 24 performances,The Amorous Anticafter just eight. OnlyYoung Sinnerswould survive into the spring ...
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