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4 days ago · lauren lorey. Tucked away in the woods of Cold Spring, NY stands a hauntingly beautiful collection of ruins called Northgate (or the Cornish Estate). In 1917, Edward J. Cornish and his wife Selina ...
4 days ago · Justin Rivers. This week in September was a big one for New York back in 1664, since on September 8, 1664 New Amsterdam became New York in name. In character, New York was forged earlier with the ...
3 days ago · The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, vastly reducing the costs of transporting people and goods across the Appalachians.
- May 17, 1821; 202 years ago
- July 4, 1817; 206 years ago (at Rome, New York)
- 351 miles (565 km), (originally 363 mi or 584 km)
- Upstate New York
5 days ago · He came to American in 1842 and leased property in Northampton County and entered the slate industry and organized the Chapman Slate Company. The quarry enticed many slaters to come to Chapman to work in the quarry. Many boarded in company homes. As a result, the population of the borough peaked at 700 around the turn of the century.
5 days ago · June 23, 1980 [12] Designated NYCL. August 24, 1967 [2] Location. The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed / suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East River.
- 1,595.5 ft (486.3 m)
- 6,016 ft (1,833.7 m; 1.1 mi)
- May 24, 1883; 140 years ago
- East River
4 days ago · Source | John Wolcott Adams and I. N. Phelps Stokes, Redraft of The Castello Plan New Amsterdam in 1660, Pen and ink on paper, 33 1/2 x 45 7/8 inches, New York Public Library, I. N. Phelps Stokes Collection, in Robert T. Augustyn and Paul E. Cohen, Manhattan in Maps, 1527-1996 (Rizzoli, 1997), 40-41.
3 days ago · New York City, city and port located at the mouth of the Hudson River, southeastern New York state, considered the most influential American metropolis and the country’s financial and cultural center. New York City comprises five boroughs—Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island.
