CHRONOLOGY OF NEW YORK CITY'S FACTUAL "FIRST" 1524-1999
Researched and Compiled by Miriam Medina

SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR THE 1900s

WEB LINKS

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

1) * (bwy) The Greatest Street in the World (The story of Broadway, old and New, from the Bowling Green to Albany) Author: Stephen Jenkins Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons-New York and London The Knickerbocker Press Copyright: 1911

2)* (NYS History) History of New York State 1523-1927, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc. New York, Volumes: I and V (1927) Dr. James Sullivan.

3) * (fff) Joseph Nathan Kane "Famous First Facts" (5th edition) The H.W. Wilson Company-N.Y. (1997)

4) * (n.i.e.) The New International Encyclopedia; Dodd, Mead and Company-New York Total of 21 volumes; 1902-1905

5) *(eojk) "The Encyclopedia of Jewish Knowledge (in one volume) Edited by: Jacob De Haas (in collaboration with more than one hundred and fifty scholars and specialists) Publisher: Behrman's Jewish Book House-New York Copyright: 1934

6) * (century) The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia In Ten Volumes, The Century Company-New York (1889)

7) * (Epic) The Epic of New York City, a Narrative History. Edward Robb Ellis. Old Town Books-New York. Copyright: 1966

8)  *C.E. The Columbia Encyclopedia Third Edition edited by William Bridgwater and Seymour Kurtz Publisher: Columbia University Press-New York (1968)

9)* (concise) Concise Dictionary of American History. Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons___New York. Copyright: 1940, 1962 Charles Scribner's.

10) * (Polks) Polk's Medical Register and Directory of North America. 1914-1915. Thirteenth Revised Edition Publisher:  R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers-Detroit, New York, Chicago. Copyright:  1914.

11) * (ajyb) American Jewish Year Book, A Record of Events and trends in American and World Jewish Life. Jewish Publication Society of America (1952)

12. * (ajtg) A Jewish Tourist's Guide To The U.S., The Jewish Publication Society of America (1954) Postal and Koppman.

13) Davison's Silk Trade; The Silk Guide 33rd annual Edition 1928 by Davison Publishing Co.-New York (1928)

14) The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia, A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Opera, Simon & Schuster-New York, (1987)

15) Museums In New York, Quick Fox-New York (1967) McDarrah, Fred W

16) The Bicentennial Almanac edited by Calvin D. Linton, Ph.D. 200 Years of America Thomas Nelson Inc. Publishers (1975)

17) *(jama) Survey of Jamaica : borough of Queens, New York City. New York: Jamaica Board of Trade, 1920, 34 pgs.

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