The inauguration of George Washington in 1789...the draft riots of 1863...the World's Fair in 1939. Pick any given year year in New York City history and it's certain to include monumental events that reverberated far beyond the Hudson River. Now a book provides a chronology of these historical moments in New York Year by Year, starting with Giovanni da Verrazano's exploration of New York Bay in 1524.
Polling for Columbine
Pete Hamill, columnist for the Daily News and author of Forever: A Novel (Little Brown, 2002), on the difference between New York and the rest of the country's attitude to war
Year Me Now
Jeffrey A. Kroessler, historian with Archives and Special Collections in the library of the College of Staten Island-CUNY, on his book, New York, Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis (NYU Press)
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