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Aileen Hernandez (born Clarke; May 23, 1926 – February 13, 2017) was an African-American union organizer, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist. She served as the president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) between 1970 and 1971, and was the first woman to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Born in 1926, Hernandez attended Howard University, where her interest in civil rights was cemented in an incident where she was told that she had to hail a "black" taxi. After graduating with honors, she became a labor union organizer before helping found NOW. As its second president, she helped organize the Women's Strike for Equality and testified in front of a congressional subcommittee on the Equal Rights Amendment, but she left the organization out of frustration with what she saw as its racial inequities. Hernandez would go on to co-found several organizations that focused on African-American women, along with teaching at several universities in California. She died in 2017 at the age of 90. (Full article...)

David Hillhouse Buel in 1908

Coney Island beach, amusement parks, and high-rises, as seen from the pier in June 2016

Richardson, circa 1964–66

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Sondheim c. 1976

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (/ˈsɒndhaɪm/ SOND-hyme; March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. One of the most important figures in twentieth-century musical theater, Sondheim was credited for having "reinvented the American musical" with shows that tackled "unexpected themes that range far beyond the [genre's] traditional subjects" with "music and lyrics of unprecedented complexity and sophistication". His shows addressed "darker, more harrowing elements of the human experience", with songs often tinged with "ambivalence" about various aspects of life.

Sondheim began his career by writing the lyrics for West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959), before eventually devoting himself solely to writing both music and lyrics. His best-known works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987). (Full article...)

The New York City Portal Wall Street, New York City The Statue of Liberty, and Manhattan, New York City United Nations headquarters, New York City The New York City skyline at dusk New York, often called New York City (NYC) to distinguish it from the state of New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km²), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities. New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, and is a significant influence on commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. The city is also the most photographed city in the world. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, and has sometimes been called the capital of the world. Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City is composed of five boroughs, each of which is coextensive with a respective county of the state of New York. The five boroughs—Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County), Manhattan (New York County), the Bronx (Bronx County), and Staten Island (Richmond County)—were created when local governments were consolidated into a single municipal entity in 1898. The city and its metropolitan area constitute the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. New York is home to more than 3.2 million residents born outside the United States, the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world as of 2016. , the New York metropolitan area is estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of nearly $1.8 trillion, ranking it first in the United States. If the New York metropolitan area were a sovereign state, it would have the eighth-largest economy in the world. New York is home to the second highest number of billionaires of any city in the world. (Full article...) Refresh with new selections below (purge) Selected article The side of an Arnine, an original IND subway car purchased by the BOT, bearing the name "City of New York". Image 4 View of the World from 9th Avenue (sometimes A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World, A New Yorker's View of the World or simply View of the World) is a 1976 illustration by Saul Steinberg that served as the cover of the March 29, 1976, edition of The New Yorker. The work presents the view from Manhattan of the rest of the world showing Manhattan as the center of the world. View of the World has been parodied by Columbia Pictures, The Economist, Mad, and The New Yorker itself, among others. The work has been imitated and printed without authorization in a variety of ways. The Columbia parody, in the poster art for the film Moscow on the Hudson, led to a ruling by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. in favor of Steinberg because of copyright violations by Columbia Pictures. The illustration was regarded in 2005 as one of the greatest magazine covers of the prior 40 years. (Full article...) The theater showing Be More Chill (2019) Image 8 Linda Jane Laubenstein (May 21, 1947 – August 15, 1992) was an American physician and early HIV/AIDS researcher. She was among the first doctors in the United States to recognize the AIDS epidemic of the early 1980s; she co-authored the first article linking AIDS with Kaposi's sarcoma. Laubenstein was raised in Barrington, Rhode Island, where a childhood bout of polio left her paraplegic and using a wheelchair for the rest of her life. She graduated from Barnard College in 1969 and received her medical degree from New York University School of Medicine, where she specialized in hematology and oncology. She went on to become a clinical professor before leaving to focus on treating AIDS patients in her private practice. In addition to her medical work, she was an outspoken AIDS activist and co-founded a non-profit organization, Multitasking, which provided employment to people with AIDS. After Laubenstein's death in 1992, aged 45, the New York State Department of Health established an award named after her for HIV/AIDS physicians. She was also memorialized in Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart and its subsequent film adaptation. (Full article...) Image 9 Requiem for a Dream is a 2000 American psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Marlon Wayans. It is based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Hubert Selby Jr., with whom Aronofsky wrote the screenplay. The film depicts four characters affected by drug addiction and how it alters their physical and emotional states. Their addictions cause them to become imprisoned in a world of delusion and desperation. As the film progresses, each character deteriorates, and their reality is overtaken by delusion, resulting in catastrophe. Selby's novel was optioned by Aronofsky and producer Eric Watson. Selby had always intended to adapt the novel into a film, as he had written a script years prior to Aronofsky approaching him. Aronofsky was enthusiastic about the story and developed the script with Selby, despite initial struggles to obtain funding for the film's production. He and the cast speak of the film being about addictions in general, and not just drugs, with a theme of loneliness and avoidance of reality in different ways. The film premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, selected as an out-of-competition entry, followed by the United States theatrical release on October 6, 2000, by Artisan Entertainment. It received a positive critical response from critics despite moderate success at the box office. The film's visual style, direction, screenplay, editing, musical score, cast, and themes were all praised, with Burstyn receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. The soundtrack was composed by Clint Mansell. (Full article...) Pacino at the US Embassy, Argentina in 2016 Rivera pitching for the Yankees in 2007
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The five boroughs

Clockwise from top left: Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn brownstones, Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Coney Island
Midtown Manhattan facing south toward Lower Manhattan
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge looking toward Staten Island
Yankee Stadium (center), Bronx County Courthouse and the Grand Concourse towards the top. To the right of the current stadium is the site of its predecessor.

In the news

15 March 2022 – 2022 Northeastern U.S. serial shooter: The DC Police Department arrest a suspected serial killer involved in the murders of two homeless men, and the attempted murder of three others in Washington, D.C. and New York City. (The New York Post)
14 March 2022 – 2022 Northeastern U.S. serial shooter: The New York City Police Department releases images of a suspected serial killer who has shot five homeless men, two fatally, in New York City and Washington, D.C. in the last week. (The New York Times)
10 March 2022 – 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: U.S. bank Goldman Sachs announces that it is closing its operations in Russia, becoming the first major Wall Street bank to leave the country following the invasion of Ukraine. (Reuters)
7 March 2022 – COVID-19 pandemic: COVID-19 pandemic in New York City; New York City formally ends its mask mandate for its school district as well as its indoor vaccine mandate for restaurants, bars and theaters. (The New York Times) (WNYW-TV)
27 February 2022 – COVID-19 pandemic: COVID-19 pandemic in New York City; New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces that the city will lift their vaccine mandate for indoor businesses and dining on March 7. (NBC News)

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Image 1NASA image of the Port of New York and New Jersey (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 2Louis Armstrong (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 3Mulberry Street, on the Lower East Side, circa 1900 (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 41932 school, Turtle Bay (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 5Huron Club, formerly a neighborhood Democratic club (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 6Lower Manhattan in 1931. The American International Building, which would become lower Manhattan's tallest building in 1932, is only partially completed. (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 7The Grand Concourse and 161st Street at the beginning of the 20th century. (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 8Al Smith, leader of the Democrats in the 1910s and 1920s (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 9The World Trade Center, completed in 1973 (from History of New York City (1946–1977))
Image 10A workman helps raise the Empire State Building 25 floors higher than the Chrysler Building (at right), as seen in 1931. (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 11Pennsylvania Station, opened in 1910 (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 12The Woolworth Building, built in 1913 (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 13Stock Market Crash (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 14Pennsylvania Station in 1962, two years before it was torn down, an event which jump-started the historic preservation movement. (from History of New York City (1946–1977))
Image 15The World Trade Center site after the September 11 attacks. (from History of New York City (1978–present))
Image 16Low Library at Columbia University, ca. 1900 (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 17Lower Manhattan, as seen from a ferry, December 1941 (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 18The Sunday magazine of the New York World appealed to immigrants with this April 29, 1906 cover page celebrating their arrival at Ellis Island. (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 19The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 20NASDAQ MarketSite at Times Square. (from History of New York City (1978–present))
Image 21Aircraft engine at Naval Training School in the Bronx (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 22Robert Moses with a model of his proposed Battery Bridge, never built (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 23The World Trade Center skyline before September 11, 2001. (from History of New York City (1978–present))
Image 24Poster about air service, in 1937 (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 25The South Tower of the original World Trade Center immediately after United Airlines Flight 175 was crashed into it by hijackers; the other tower, the North Tower has been hit by American Airlines Flight 11 around 15 minutes earlier (from History of New York City (1978–present))

Did you know...

... that New York City's Equitable Building, completed just before the 1916 Zoning Resolution, was described as being "more famous for what it caused than what it is"?
... that American business executive William M. Ellinghaus helped rescue New York City from bankruptcy in the late 1970s?
... that the Hearst Tower was built nearly eight decades after its base was completed?
... that while 1271 Avenue of the Americas was being built at New York City's Rockefeller Center, Marilyn Monroe re-launched the Center's long-dormant "Sidewalk Superintendents' Club"?
... that during contract bidding for structural steel for New York City's New Lots Line, all three bids were rejected partly because the chief engineer was banking on steel prices falling?
... that the Twin Parks housing project in New York City, the site of a January 2022 fire that killed seventeen people, won architectural awards after it was constructed in the early 1970s?
... that The Little Players performed invitation-only puppet shows out of a New York City living room for over 25 years?
... that Wall Street Journal architecture columnist Julie V. Iovine caused an uproar when she wrote that Yale University had a reputation for being a "gay school" in 1987?

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