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3 days ago · Noah Sheidlower. William Jay Gaynor was the 94th mayor of New York City from 1910 to 1913 and a New York Supreme Court Justice from 1893 to 1909. Associated with Tammany Hall, Gaynor sought...
4 days ago · It wasn’t until 1942, after the house served as a concession stand and the first location of the Museum of the City of New York, that the first New York City Mayor moved in. Fiorello...
22 hours ago · There were twenty trustees in total: eight each appointed by the mayors of New York and Brooklyn, as well as the mayors of each city and the auditor and comptroller of Brooklyn. The company was tasked with constructing what was then known as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge.
1 day ago · Four men have become president of the United States after serving as governor of New York: Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and six were vice president. Van Buren and Theodore Roosevelt held both offices.
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3 days ago · Camel cigarette sign with a man blowing smoke rings, Times Square, New York City, New York, 1943. Early on, Times Square became the preeminent American venue for advances in big, bright electric signage and advertising, especially after the introduction of neon signs in the 1920s.
3 days ago · Fiorello LaGuardia was the first mayor to settle into Gracie Mansion and since then, every mayor except Bloomberg has called “The People’s House” home.
1 day ago · Greenwich Village, [pron 1] or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
