In fall 1957, for example, nearly 36, 000 attended Hunter, Brooklyn, Queens and City Colleges for free, but another 24, 000 paid tuition of up to $ 300 a year — the equivalent of $ 2, 411. 98 in 2011.

* 1957 – Walter O ' Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.

And so it was in the summer of 1957 that both the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers announced their moves to California, and the golden age of baseball in the New York area had ended.

The rivalry between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, both of the National League, from their origins in the 1880s until both left the city after 1957 was not considered a Subway Series.

Members of the O ' Malley family include Kevin and Brian O ' Malley, who are the sons of former Dodgers owner Peter O ' Malley and grandsons of Walter O ' Malley, the owner who moved the Dodgers west from Brooklyn after the 1957 season.

Many people also felt three baseball teams could not prosper in New York City, but Huston and Ruppert were confident the Yankees could outlast the more established Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants of the National League ( which proved true, as both would eventually relocate to California following the 1957 season ).

After the 1957 season, the Brooklyn Dodgers relocated to Los Angeles, California, and became the Los Angeles Dodgers, but Campanella's playing career came to an end before he ever played a game for Los Angeles.

* An Angel Passed Over Brooklyn ( 1957 )

The County hired William Shea, leader of New York City's successful lobbying campaign to get baseball's National League to expand following the 1957 departures of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants.

He was music critic of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1934 to 1937, and from 1936 to 1957 was music critic of The Nation.

During this period, the Saints were a farm club of the Chicago White Sox ( 1936 – 1942 ), the Brooklyn Dodgers ( 1944 – 1957 ), and the Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1958 – 1960 ).

The library outgrew its space, and in 1957, a new building to house both the Business Library and the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood branch was approved by city government.

Giants Stadium was the first major league sporting venue in New Jersey ( though the Brooklyn Dodgers had played seven home games at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City in 1956 & 1957 ), and its success, along with that of the Giants in the 1980s was a major impetus behind increased pride and enthusiasm among New Jersey residents.

The relocations which arguably rankle purists the most may be the 1957 moves to California of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants.

In 1957, Torrio had a heart attack in Brooklyn while sitting in a barber's chair waiting for a haircut, dying several hours later in the hospital.

* TIME Magazine: Artist in Brooklyn August 19, 1957.

He hit. 306 in the Dodgers ' last season in Brooklyn in 1957, and batted. 290 in their first year in Los Angeles, finishing eighth in the league with 83 RBI.

Louis Rodman Whitaker, Jr. ( born May 12, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York ) nicknamed Sweet Lou, is a former Major League Baseball player.

Born in 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, Belfi gained his BA in English from Georgetown University in 1957 and Doctor of Jurisprudence from Fordham University School of Law in 1960.

In 1957, a flyover connection between the IRT White Plains Road and Dyre Avenue Lines opened, allowing trains from the latter to travel to Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Scully announced the Dodgers ' games in Brooklyn until 1957, after which the club moved to Los Angeles.

Other films and TV shows featuring greasers include: Crime in the Streets ( 1956 ), The Delinquents ( 1957 ), 77 Sunset Strip ( 1958 ), The Young Savages ( 1961 ), Two-Lane Blacktop ( 1971 ), American Graffiti ( 1973 ), Badlands ( 1973 ), Happy Days ( 1974 – 1984 ), The Lords of Flatbush ( 1974 ), Grease ( 1978 ), The Wanderers ( 1979 ), Grease 2 ( 1982 ), The Loveless ( 1982 ), The Outsiders ( 1983 ) Eddie and the Cruisers ( 1983 ), Rumble Fish ( 1983 ), Streets of Fire ( 1984 ), Tuff Turf ( 1985 ), Stand By Me ( 1986 ), La Bamba ( 1987 ), Full House ( 1987 – 1995 ), Last Exit to Brooklyn ( 1989 ), Cry-Baby ( 1990 ), This Boy's Life ( 1993 ), Roadracers ( 1994 ), Deuces Wild ( 2002 ), Secondhand Lions ( 2003 ), the children's cartoon Johnny Bravo, the video game Bully ( 2006 ), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ), Fallout 3 ( 2008 ), Mafia II ( 2010 ) and Fallout: New Vegas ( 2010 ), The Violent Kind ( 2010 ),

Born in Salina, Kansas, and raised in Los Angeles, California, Mauch had played parts of nine seasons from 1944 to 1957 with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Boston Braves, St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox.

Parking nightmares had plagued the city as far back as the 1950s, the little park lacked modern amenities, and New York City, which in 1957 had lost both its National League teams ( the Dodgers and the Giants ) to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, was actively courting Reds owner Powel Crosley.

After the 1957 season, Dodgers owner Walter O ' Malley decided to move the team to Los Angeles for financial reasons, among others.

During his career, he pitched for the New York Giants ( 1952 – 1956 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1957 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1957 – 1958 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1958 – 1962 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1963 – 1968 ), California Angels ( 1969 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1969 – 1970 ; 1971 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1970 ), and Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1971 – 1972 ).

* Bob Ojeda ( born 1957 ), former pitcher in the major leagues, pitched for the Mets, Yankees, Indians, Red Sox and Dodgers between 1980 and 1994.

The latter fact may have been partially due to his having many of his best seasons ( 1950 – 51, 1954, 1957 ) in years when the Dodgers did not win the pennant.

When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1957, it caused them to shuffle their minor league teams.

The Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, California, after the 1957 season, while their long-time crosstown rivals the New York Giants moved to San Francisco, based upon O ' Malley's urging to Giants owner Horace Stoneham.

He was later traded by Kansas City to the New York Yankees in 1956 and then sold back to the Dodgers in 1957.

`` Well, as a matter of fact, I've looked through back-issue files of New York papers for December, 1957, and haven't found a great deal '' --

In 1957, the Real Estate Boards of New York City actively opposed the then pending private housing anti-discrimination law.

* Alexander, FM Man's Supreme Inheritance, Methuen ( London, 1910 ), revised and enlarged ( New York, 1918 ), later editions 1941, 1946, 1957, Mouritz ( UK, 1996 ), reprinted 2002.

Holly helped win over an all-black audience to rock and roll / rockabilly when the Crickets were booked at New York's Apollo Theater for August 16 – 22, 1957.

During the 1950s, however, Graham began distancing himself from the older fundamentalism and, in preparation for his 1957 New York Crusade, he sought broad ecumenical sponsorship.

His first European film, A King in New York ( 1957 ), was also a political satire that openly parodied the HUAC.

A King in New York was released in September 1957, and received mainly mixed reviews.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

* A King in New York ( 1957 )

On 2 November 1957, the New Statesman magazine published an article by J.

However, these early events received little attention, and it was not until 1957, when the New York Times reported an unsuccessful struggle to restrict DDT use in Nassau County, New York, that the issue came to the attention of the popular naturalist-author, Rachel Carson.

* 1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.

She returned to New York in May 1957, where she reunited with Fiorello four months before he died.

" Scientists Wonder If Shot Nears Moon ", The New York Times, November 5, 1957

Sir Eric Woodward, the first New South Wales-born person appointed as Governor ( 1957 – 65 )

Between 1788 and 1957, all governors were born outside of New South Wales and were often members of the Peerage.

However, as Northcott was born in Victoria, it was not until Sir Eric Woodward's appointment by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 that the position was filled by a New South Wales-born individual ; this practice continued until 1996, when Queen Elizabeth II commissioned as her representative Gordon Samuels, a London-born immigrant to Australia.

Between 1957 and 1968 a New Year's Eve television programme, called " The White Heather Club ", was presented to herald in the Hogmanay celebrations.

* A. I. Khinchin, Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory, New York: Dover, 1957.

He practiced the photographic arts, with one-man exhibitions to his credit in Warsaw's Crooked Circle Gallery ( 1957 ), and in the Andre Zarre Gallery in New York ( 1988 ).

New York, 1957

* 1957 – The New York City " Mad Bomber ", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.

Ellen Greve was born in 1957 in New South Wales, of post-war Norwegian migrant parents.