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100 unusual facts about New York


1905 AAA Championship Car season

The 1905 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 11 races, beginning in The Bronx, New York on June 10 and concluding in Poughkeepsie, New York on September 29.

1976 WTA Westchester Invitational

The 1976 WTA Westchester Invitational was a tennis tournament that took place in Westchester, New York in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln DeMond

Reverend Abraham Lincoln DeMond (born 1867, Seneca, New York) was an advocate for African-American emancipation.

Agnes of God

A few years before the play was written, a similar incident occurred in a convent in Brighton, New York, just outside the city line of Rochester.

Albertus Magnus High School

Albertus Magnus High School is administered by the Dominican Congregation of Our Lady of the Rosary Sparkill, New York, which was founded on May 6, 1876 in New York City by Mother Catherine Mary Antoninus Thorpe.

Alexander Bittelman

Following his expulsion and refusal to testify in 1961, Alexander Bittelman lived out the last two years of his life in quiet at Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

Alzheimer's Association, Central New York Chapter

Regional offices are located in the Nichols Notch Building at 401 Hayes Avenue in Endicott; 258 Genesee Street in Utica; and the HSBC Bank Building at 120 Washington Street, Suite 419, in Watertown.

Andrew Dexter, Jr.

During the War of 1812 Dexter relocated to Athens, New York, where he lived with his father and brother, who assisted him in using New York's lenient bankruptcy laws to partially satisfy his creditors and rebuild his finances.

Arlington Fire

Arlington Fire District - The fire district that provides fire protection to the Town of Poughkeepsie

Bartley Campbell

Campbell was declared insane in September 1886 and died in the State Hospital for the Insane in Middletown, New York on July 30, 1888.

Bert E. Salisbury

Son, William Root Salisbury was born on June 20, 1911, in Syracuse.

Blaze Berdahl

On July 15, 2007, Berdahl married Stephen M. Tvardek, an S&P futures trader, at the Onteora Mountain House in Boiceville, New York.

Bobby Charles

Charles continued to compose and record (he was based out of Woodstock, New York for a time) and in the 1990s he recorded a duet of "Walking to New Orleans" with Domino.

Bouvier Beale

Beale and his family resided in the historic 1906 Italian Renaissance-styled home Cedarcroft in Glen Cove on Long Island, and in 1971, built their summer home in Bridgehampton.

Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

The springs at Bath, in Bristol Township, were popular among wealthy Philadelphians for a while, but lost popularity to the ones in Saratoga, New York.

Captain Bodgit

In 2003, he was sold and transferred to Questroyal Stud near New Hampton, New York, for four more years at a stud fee of $5,000.

Cedar Street Presbyterian Church

The Reformed Church of Tappan, in Tappan, Rockland County, New York was founded in 1694, and the current church building dates from 1835.

Charles Edward Smith

Following his pastorate in Cincinnati, he relocated to Fulton, New York, where he served with the Fulton Baptist Church for two years.

Clamato

It is also referred to colloquially as "clamato juice." Clamato was produced in its current form beginning in 1966 by the Duffy-Mott company in Hamlin, New York, by two employees who wanted to create a Manhattan clam chowder style cocktail by combining tomato juice and clam broth with spices.

Computing Tabulating Recording Company

In 1901, the company was re-incorporated in Binghamton, New York.

In 1894, J. L. Willard and F. A. Frick of Rochester, New York, formed the Willard and Frick Manufacturing Company as the first card time recorder company in the world.

Crinipellis zonata

The species was first named as Agaricus zonatus by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1872, based on specimens found near Albany, New York.

David D. Kirkpatrick

He was born in Buffalo, New York, earned a B.A. in history and American studies at Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude, and attended the graduate program in American Studies at Yale.

Doug Allen

Allen and his wife and two children live in Rockland County, New York.

Dutch Empire

The last Director-General of the colony of New Netherland, Pieter Stuyvesant, has bequeathed his name to a street, a neighborhood and a few schools in New York City, and the town of Stuyvesant.

Edward Irvin Scott

He was born on May 13, 1846 in N. Greenfield, New York, the son of Alexander Hamilton Scott and Sophronia Wood Seymour.

Eight Witnesses

Toward the end of June, 1829, at the Peter Whitmer, Sr. home in Fayette, New York, Joseph Smith (with Oliver Cowdery as scribe) finished the translation of the Book of Mormon.

Elkland, Pennsylvania

In March 1811, came a colony from Elmira, New York and Southport, New York, consisting of Samuel Tubbs Sr., his sons, Samuel, James and Benjamin, and his sons-in-law, John Ryon Jr., David Hammond, and Martin Stevens.

Ezio Flagello

Flagello made his professional debut at the Empire State Festival, in Ellenville, New York in 1955, as Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore.

Fairchild T-46

In order to validate the proposed aircraft's design, and to explore its flight handling characteristics, Fairchild Republic contracted with Ames Industries of Bohemia, New York to build a flyable 62% scale version.

Finast

The remaining Midwest Finast stores were rebadged as Tops Friendly Markets, its Buffalo, New York-based unit.

Ford Mustang I

The Mustang I made its formal debut at the United States Grand Prix in Watkins Glen, New York on October 7, 1962, where test driver and contemporary Formula One race driver Dan Gurney lapped the track in a demonstration using the second "race" prototype.

Frances M. Beal

Frances M. Beal (born January 13, 1940 Binghamton, New York) is a Black feminist and a peace and justice political activist.

Frederick B. Williams

From 1971-2005, Williams led as Vicar and Rector at the Church of the Intercession, an Episcopal church in Harlem, New York at the border of Washington Heights.

General Walter Martin

In 1805 when Lewis County was formed from part of Oneida County, Martin influenced the selection of Martinsburg as the county seat by donating land and money for a courthouse.

George Dragas

At present, he is also a Visiting Professor at Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada, and Visiting Professor of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism at Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville, New York.

George J. Walker

He served tours in France, Germany, Korea and Vietnam as well as stateside assignments at Seneca Army Depot, Romulus, New York; Fort Holabird, Maryland; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Fort Hood, Texas; Washington, DC; and Fort McPherson, Georgia.

Gilbert Emery

He prepared for college at Naples High School and at the Normal School in Oneonta, New York.

Grape pie

Vineyards that grow the grape, which was developed in the U.S., stretch from Western New York across Pennsylvania and into Ohio, forming a "narrow 100-mile-long strip" which includes Westfield, New York (known as "Concord grape juice capital of the world"), on the southern Lake Erie shore.

Greentree Stable

After Whitney's steeplechase horse won the 1911 Greentree Cup race at Great Neck, New York, it was decided to use the Greentree name for several of their properties.

Gregory Jarvis

Jarvis graduated from Mohawk Central High School, in Mohawk, New York, in 1962.

Henry W. Clune

Henry W. Clune (February 8, 1890 - October 9, 1995) was a well-known journalist for the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper in Rochester, New York.

Honeoye

Honeoye, New York, a hamlet in Ontario County, New York, on north end of Honeoye Lake

Hynes Athletic Center

The Hynes Athletics Center is a 2,611-seat multi-purpose arena in New Rochelle, New York.

Invasion of the Pines

Fire Island Pines is a beach community on Fire Island east of New York City with a gay majority population that was at the time more affluent and conservative than the population of nearby Cherry Grove.

Ion Gheorghe Maurer

Dennis Deletant, Communist Terror in Romania, C. Hurst & Co., London, 1999; Ceausescu and the Securitate, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York, 1995

Isaac T. Stoddard

Isaac Taft Stoddard (1851 Whitney Point, Broome County, New York - 1914) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician from Arizona.

Isaac Underhill Willets

The road (in western Nassau County) was built in 1850 through the middle of his lands.

Isaiah Edward Robinson, Jr.

He lived in Middletown, New York with his adopted sons before he returned to Birmingham, Alabama, where he died on April 14, 2011, following a stroke.

Jim McCloskey

McCloskey attended high school at Lancaster High School in Lancaster, New York.

John Kirby Allen

When he was seven years old, John took his first job, as a bellboy in a hotel in Orrville (present day DeWitt, New York).

John LaMountain

In September 1859, La Mountain made an ascension with the Atlantic, along with newspaperman John Haddock, from Watertown, New York across Minnesota and Michigan.

John Monroe Van Vleck

John Monroe Van Vleck was born on March 4, 1833, in Stone Ridge, New York; he was the son of Peter Van Vleck and Ann Hasbrouck.

Joseph Johnston Muir

He served in succession: the Baptist church in Oxford, New Jersey; the East Marion Baptist Church on Long Island; First Baptist Church of Ticonderoga, New York; McDougal Street Baptist Church, New York City; the Park Baptist Church in Port Richmond, New York on Staten Island; North Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia; the E Street or Third Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. and the Temple Baptist Church also in Washington.

Josh LaBove

Joshua Labove (born on March 22, 1986, in Manhasset, New York) has often been credited in TV and film performances as a child actor in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Justin Popović

(John Meyendorff, professor of the Academy of St. Vladimir now in Scarsdale, New York (associated with Columbia University) - and every bit as much a critic of the "Catholic novelties" and the Pope's anti-Christianity.

Kate Snow

A native of Burnt Hills, Saratoga County, New York, Snow graduated in 1991 from Cornell University, where she majored in communication, was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, and a newscaster on WVBR.

Larry Thompson

In August 2003 Thompson left the Justice Department and was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution for a year before accepting the position of senior vice-president for government affairs and general counsel at Pepsico in Purchase, New York.

Legas

Legas is represented in the U. S. by Professor Gaetano Cipolla in Mineola, New York.

Leroy J. Manor

Born in Morrisonville, New York, on February 21, 1921, Manor graduated in 1937 from Cadyville High School, in Clinton County, New York, and then received his Teacher’s Certificate from New York State Normal School in 1940.

Lilug

The group was formed in December 1998, out of interested parties from two previously-existing organizations, the Farmingdale Linux and Associated Technologies Club and the Brookhaven National Laboratory Local Linux Users Group.

Mae Murray

Koran was later raised by Sara Elizabeth "Bess" Cunning of Averill Park, New York, who began taking care of him in 1936, when the child was recovering from a double mastoid operation (Cunning's brother Dr. David Cunning was the surgeon).

Mary Horgan Mowbray-Clarke

In the 1930s and 40s Mary Mowbray-Clarke established herself as a landscape architect, designing the award-winning Dutch Garden in Rockland County, as well as a number of gardens found in homes near that area.

Michigan Condensed Milk Factory

Hopkins successfully completed negotiations, and Borden constructed this creamery, designed by William D. Kyser, Superintendent of the Borden Creamery in Fairport, New York in Mount Pleasant.

Milton, New York

Milton (CDP), Saratoga County, New York - a census-designated place in the town of Milton

Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation

When the Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation was closed, Nassau County Council's Camp Wauwepex in Wading River, New York was renamed as the John M. Schiff Scout Reservation, in honor of Moritmer's son, John.

New York State Route 292

New York State Route 292 (NY 292) is a short state highway in the Hudson Valley of New York in the United States, bridging Putnam and Dutchess counties.

New York, Providence and Boston Railroad

At Providence, a short car float across the Providence River led to the docks of the Boston and Providence Rail Road at India Point in Providence where travelers could continue on to Boston.

New York's 12th congressional district special election, 1808

This election was held at the same time as the 1808 Congressional elections.

New York's 1st congressional district special election, 1804

The election was held at the same time as the elections for the 9th Congress and were combined into a single election, with the candidate receiving the largest number of votes going to the 9th Congress and the candidate with the second largest number of votes going to the 8th Congress.

New York's 25th congressional district election, 2008

After it appeared he might run unopposed in the general election, on April 2 Republican Dale Sweetland, coming off a narrowly unsuccessful September 2007 bid for Onondaga County Executive, announced he'd oppose Maffei.

New York's 29th congressional district election, 2006

In early 2005, former U.S. Naval officer Eric J.J. Massa, a long-time friend of 2004 presidential candidate General Wesley Clark filed to run as the Democratic candidate.

Nicholas Fish II

Fish was buried at Saint Philip's Church Cemetery in Garrison, New York.

North Settlement Methodist Church

North Settlement Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on County Route 10, east of the junction with County Route 32C in Ashland, New York, Greene County, New York.

Peter Gschnitzer

He won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Pierre Bellocq

Another Bellocq mural, in the clubhouse of Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, depicts the dominant jockeys, trainers and racing personalities of the track's century-long history.

Pittman Center, Tennessee

Later that year, the Methodist Episcopal Church endorsed Burnett's plan at its annual meeting, and with the help of Reverend Eli Pittman of Elmira, New York, Burnett secured $15,000 for the project.

Pizza saver

In 1985, Carmela Vitale of Dix Hills, New York, was issued a patent for a plastic 3-legged tripod stool that would sit in the middle of the box and keep the top from sagging into pizza, cakes or other foods kept in a box.

Port Kent and Hopkinton Turnpike

From Franklin to Au Sable Forks, the Port Kent and Hopkinton Turnpike used a series of roadways that are now primarily local roads.

Randall Tolson

Randall Tolson (1912 – 1954) was a clockmaker who lived in Cold Spring Harbor, New York for most of his adult life.

Richard George Voge

A little over two years later, Rear Admiral Voge died at the United Hospital at Port Chester, New York.

Rochester Raiders

Rochester went 8–4 under head coach Dennis Greco (on loan from East Rochester High School) during the 2006 regular season and advanced to the postseason.

Salem Hanna Khamis

He soon accepted an invitation from the United Nations to work in its Statistical Office in Lake Success (1949-1950) then New York (1950-1953).

Samuel Birdsall

He was admitted to the bar in 1812 and commenced practice in Cooperstown, New York.

Siasconset, Massachusetts

In 1877 Edward Underhill from Wolcott, New York bought land in the village and constructed cottages in the fashion of the original fishing shacks and then rented them to summer tourists.

Start Over On Monday

Start Over On Monday is the debut album by Buffalo-based band This Day & Age, released in summer 2002.

Steven Horwitz

In 1989, Horwitz joined the economics department of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he continues to be employed at present.

Taylor G. Belcher

After his retirement from public service, Belcher lived in Garrison's Landing in Garrison, New York.

The Black Atlantic

In February, 2008, The Black Atlantic started recording their album in a cabin owned by van der Velde’s in-laws, located in the small town of Saranac Lake, in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

The Burns Sisters

The Burn Sisters were raised as members of a large Irish Catholic family of 12 children in Binghamton, New York.

TJ Galiardi

Galiardi, a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, chose to represent Team USA and initially attended USA Hockey's 2007 evaluation camp in Lake Placid, New York but was unable to gain selection to the 2007 World Junior Championships.

Tremont Avenue

Tremont Avenue is a street in the Bronx, New York.

Trust Oldham

After an American consortium made up of Simon Blitz, Danny Gazal and Simon Corney from New York took over the reins at Boundary Park, Trust Oldham agreed to buy a 3% stake in the club for £200,000.

Verplanck

Verplanck, New York, a hamlet in the town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York

Wardenclyffe Tower

Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917) also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early wireless transmission tower designed by Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, New York and intended for commercial trans-Atlantic wireless telephony, broadcasting, and proof-of-concept demonstrations of wireless power transmission.

WBNG-DT2

WBNG-DT2's parent station has studios on Columbia Drive in Johnson City.

William Colgate

He annually subscribed money to assist in defraying the current expenses of Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution (later Madison University and Theological Seminary); and he was among the most strenuous opponents of their removal to the city of Rochester.

William Reed Business Media

As well as British offices in Crawley and London, the company has offices in Montpellier, France and New York, United States.

WNED-TV

The transmitters and towers belonged to the Chautauqua Board of Cooperative Educational Services, the experimental Appalachian Television Project, and Cattaraugus Area Television System (CATS) group and were scattered across numerous small towns in Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany counties.

Xylem Inc.

The corporate history of Goulds Pumps began in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, when Seabury S. Gould purchased the interests of Edward Mynderse and H.C. Silsby in Downs, Mynderse & Co., a pump making business which had started up in 1840.


Allyn Abbott Young

From 1913 to 1920 he was professor at Cornell University, but war took him to Washington DC in 1917 to direct the Bureau of Statistical Research for the War Trade Board, and to New York in 1918 to head the economics division of a group known as "The Enquiry" under Colonel Edward M. House, the group charged with laying the groundwork for the Paris Peace Conference.

Ariel Levy

At New York magazine, where Levy was a contributing editor for 12 years, she wrote about John Waters, Stanley Bosworth, Donatella Versace, the writer George W. S. Trow, the feminist Andrea Dworkin, and the artists Ryan McGinley and Dash Snow.

Borden Chase

Born Frank Fowler, he went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working as a sandhog on the construction of New York's Holland Tunnel, before turning to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays.

Ceuta Heliport

Destinations include more than one hundred cities in Europe (mainly in the United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Nordic countries) but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw, Riga and Bucharest), North Africa, the Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).

Charles I. du Pont

He lived with his parents in New York until they established themselves in the wool manufacturing business at Louviers, across the Brandywine Creek from the DuPont powder mills and near Greenville, Delaware.

Charles Malik Whitfield

Charles Malik Whitfield (born August 1, 1972) is an American actor from The Bronx, New York City, New York.

Damien Dernoncourt

He oversees an international team of 1500 individuals across the company’s facilities in Bali, Hong Kong, Bangkok and New York.

Donwan Harrell

Donwan Harrell is founder and creative director of the New York-based luxury denim line PRPS.

Echo Eggebrecht

Eggebrecht has held solo exhibitions at Horton Gallery, New York; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York; Ter Caemer Meert Contemporary, Kortijk, Belgium; Sixtyseven, New York and Sixspace in Los Angeles as well as group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; ICA; Nicole Klagsburn; and White Box in New York; Groeflin Maag Gallery in Basel, Switzerland; Poets on Painters at the Ulrich Museum.

Edward Francis Hutton

Edward Francis Hutton (September 7, 1875 in New York City – July 11, 1962 in Westbury, Long Island, New York) was an American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co.

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

Floods in the United States: 2001–present

Flood damage was sustained in a swath from southern New York to the mouth, located at Havre de Grace in northern Maryland.

Gedney family

Joshua Gedney and his brother Joseph were forced to change their names to Gidney and to flee from New York to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1783.

Genya Turovskaya

Turovskaya lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is an associate editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse.

George Wein

Festival Productions' feature event is now called "the JVC Jazz Festival at Newport", and the company runs JVC Jazz Festivals in cities around including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, Warsaw, and Tokyo.

George Zahringer

George Zahringer III (born April 23, 1953 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an amateur golfer and stockbroker from New York, New York.

Greens/Green Party USA

The Clearinghouse has operated from various locations, including (originally) Kansas City, Missouri; Blodgett Mills, New York; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Chicago, Illinois.

Hector, Minnesota

Hector, New York was named after the bravest of the ancient Trojan warriors whose story is an important part of Homer’s epic, “Iliad”.

Indiana Limestone

New Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York, opened in 2009, extensively uses Indiana limestone paneling on its exterior facade.

Interstate 95 in New York

After the Bruckner Interchange, I-95 turns northeast as the Bruckner Expressway, crossing Tremont Avenue before crossing under I-695 (the Throgs Neck Expressway).

Jacques Reich

In 1873 he came to the U.S. and continued his studies at the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Japheth J. Omojuwa

Omojuwa has graced speaking platforms on universities and in cities across Nigeria and around the world from Washington to London, Lagos, Accra, Cape Town, Abuja, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, New York, Cologne, Dortmund and other cities.

Mbongeni Buthelezi

Buthelezis works have been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of African Art in New York, the Goch Museum in Germany as well as the Prague Biennale.

Meaghan Jarensky

Meaghan Jarensky Castaldi is a beauty queen from The Bronx, New York who has competed in the Miss USA 2005 pageant.

Milenko Vlajkov

In 1998 he was elected as Member of the International Training Standards and Policy Review Committee of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York.

In 1999 he became the founder and president of the Association for Cognitive Management and of the Institute for Cognitive Management in Stuttgart, Germany, an affiliated training centre of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York.

Moisant Aviation School

An instructor at the school, Albert Jewell disappeared on 13 October 1913 on flight from the Hempstead airfield to Oakwood, Staten Island, NY to take part in an air race; he is assumed to have come down at sea off the south shore of Long Island.

New Jersey Route 17

Route 17 interchanges with Stag Hill Road just before merging with six-lane Interstate 287, which it follows to the New York border, where the road continues into Hillburn, Rockland County as Interstate 287 and New York State Route 17, intersecting Interstate 87 (the New York State Thruway) shortly after the state line.

New York Golden Gloves

Named for the small golden gloves given out to the winners of each weight category, the New York Golden Gloves continued for decades under the sponsorship of the New York Daily News.

Pike Committee

The Pike Committee is the common name for the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during the period when it was chaired by Democratic Representative Otis G. Pike of New York.

Pochayiv Lavra

This new St. Job of Pochaev Brotherhood moved from Czechoslovakia to Germany and eventually America, where it joined the Holy Trinity Monastery near Jordanville, New York, with now-Archbishop Vitaly becoming its abbot.

Principles for Responsible Investment

The PRI Initiative has a Secretariat of around 50 staff based mostly in London, with staff based in New York, as well regional offices in Seoul, Sao Paulo, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Cape Town.

Randolph Perkins

He was interred in Fairview Cemetery, West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York.

Richard Boleslawski

Among his students were Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Harold Clurman, who were all founding members of the Group Theatre (1931–1940), the first American acting ensemble to utilize Stanislavski's techniques.

Ridgebury Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania

The first settlers to Ridgebury Township were two families from Orange County New York, who arrived in 1805.

Robert Foster Kennedy

After the war he worked in the Bellevue Hospital, New York, where one of his colleagues was Samuel Kinnier Wilson.

Robert H. Roberts

Robert H. Roberts (June 5, 1837 Nantglyn, Denbighshire, Wales – September 3, 1888 Boonville, Oneida County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Salah Taher

Overall, he painted 15000 paintings and held more than 80 art fairs for his work in Egypt, Venice, New York, San Francisco, Geneva, Beirut, Kuwait and Jeddah.

Sound Awake

It was later mixed at Melbourne's Sing Sing Studios and mastered by Tom Coyne (DJ Shadow, The Roots) at Sterling Sounds in New York.

St. Clair Entertainment Group

It also has corporate offices and representation in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.

Stanley Aronowitz

In 2002, Aronowitz led efforts to maintain the official ballot status of the Green Party in New York and ran for governor on that ticket the same year.

Theodore Wores

He went to Japan for two extended visits and had successful exhibitions of his Japanese paintings in New York and London, where he became friends with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Oscar Wilde.

Thomas W. Hanshew

Thomas W. Hanshew (1857 – 1914) was an American actor and writer, born in Brooklyn, N. Y. He went on the stage when only 16 years old, playing minor parts with Ellen Terry's company.

World Chess Championship 1907

Emanuel Lasker had virtually retired after retaining the Chess World Championship in 1897, in part due to his doctoral studies in mathematics, but defended his title against Frank J. Marshall from January 26 to April 6, 1907, in the USA, games being played in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago and Memphis.