While many neighborhood clubs closed their doors permanently, Manhattan clubs that played freestyle music began to thrive.

Kaplan began his career as an Orthodox rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York City, was a founder in 1912 of the Young Israel movement of Modern Orthodox Judaism, and was the first rabbi hired by the new ( Orthodox ) Jewish Center in Manhattan when it was founded in 1918.

In 1912, after a fire destroyed their home in Hastings-on-Hudson, the Sanger family moved back to New York City, where Margaret began working as a nurse in the East Side slums of Manhattan.

Debuting in August 1952 ( cover date October – November ), Mad began as a comic book published by EC, then located in lower Manhattan at 225 Lafayette Street.

Research into fusion for military purposes began in the early 1940s as part of the Manhattan Project, but this was not accomplished until 1951 ( see the Greenhouse Item nuclear test ), and nuclear fusion on a large scale in an explosion was first carried out on November 1, 1952, in the Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb test.

In early 1974, a new scene began to develop around the CBGB club, also in lower Manhattan.

Plans for the use of eminent domain to remove the shops in the area bounded by Vesey, Church, Liberty, and Fulton streets began in 1961 when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was deciding between the east side of Lower Manhattan and the west side near the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad terminals.

The feud between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Giants began in the late 19th century when both clubs were based in New York City, with the Dodgers playing in Brooklyn and the Giants playing at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan.

More boats began using the Swan Creek sidecut than its official ending, quickly putting the Manhattan warehouses out of business and triggering a rush to move business to Toledo. A 1955 Interstate Highway System | Interstate planning map of Toledo Most of Manhattan's residents moved out by 1844.

Lehrer was born in 1928 to a Jewish family in the New York City borough of Manhattan, and began studying classical piano music at the age of seven.

In 2002 Kripke began teaching at the CUNY Graduate Center in midtown Manhattan, and was appointed a distinguished professor of philosophy there in 2003.

In 1956, Turner's shows at Club Manhattan began to be attended by two sisters, Aillene and Anna Mae Bullock.

At the start of 1917 the band began an engagement playing for dancing at Reisenweber's Cafe in Manhattan.

After the radio ad began running, the use of the statistic was widely criticised by FactCheck. org, PolitiFact. com, by The Washington Post, and others who consulted leading cancer experts and found that Giuliani's cancer survival statistics to be false, misleading or " flat wrong ", the numbers having been reported to have been obtained from an opinion article by Giuliani health care advisor David Gratzer, a Canadian psychiatrist in the Manhattan Institute's City Journal where Gratzer was a senior fellow.

Practical development began in earnest in 1942 when these efforts were transferred to the authority of the U. S. Army and became the Manhattan Project.

Morales began his pursuit of an acting career by attending the School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.

During this period, the Philharmonic became one of the first American orchestras to boast an outdoor symphony series when it began playing low-priced summer concerts at Lewisohn Stadium in upper Manhattan.

He built a dock along the waterfront in the neighborhood in 1817 and began offering daily steam ferry service between Staten Island and Manhattan.

In 1874, William Backhouse Astor, Jr. from New York City's wealthy Astor family purchased over of land, upon which he began to establish a town he called Manhattan.

On October 11, 1811, Stevens ' ship the Juliana, began to operate as a ferry between Manhattan and Hoboken, making it the world's first commercial steam ferry.

In 1845, the Knickerbocker Club, which had been founded by Alexander Cartwright, began using Elysian Fields to play baseball due to the lack of suitable grounds on Manhattan.

The process continued as many suburbanites, transplanted Americans, internationals, and immigrants ( most focused on opportunities in NY / NJ region and proximity to Manhattan ) began to make the " Jersey " side of the Hudson their home, and the " real-estate boom " of the era encouraged many to seek investment opportunities.

Etienne Burdett began ferry service between north Edgewater and the island of Manhattan in 1758.

In 1943, VCA began producing a uranium-vanadium sludge for the Manhattan Engineer District.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

I had studied with Burns ten years before, during the scholarship year the Manhattan gave me, along with the five-hundred-dollar prize for my paintings of bums on Hudson Street.

After several years of outdoor trading, the curbstone brokers moved indoors in 1921 to a building on Greenwich Street in Lower Manhattan.

Category: Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan

In October 1943, shortly before he was to be arrested by the German police, Niels Bohr escaped to Sweden with his family, later travelling to London and on to work on the Manhattan Project.

It was built mainly to satisfy public demand for creation of a grade-separated right of way for the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later Long Island Rail Road ) on its way to the South Ferry at the foot of Atlantic Street ( later Atlantic Avenue ), where passengers could catch ferries to Manhattan.

The railroad connected Lower Manhattan via the South Ferry to Greenport on the North Fork of Long Island, where a ferry connected to Stonington, Connecticut to a rail link that continued to Boston.

In 1947, at the age of 44, she met former actor Rupert Pole in a Manhattan elevator on her way to a party.

:* New York City has numerous Bastille Day celebrations each July, including Bastille Day on 60th Street hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française between Fifth and Lexington Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Bastille Day on Smith Street in Brooklyn, and Bastille Day in Tribeca.

Battery Park City is bounded on the east by West Street, which separates the area from the Financial District of downtown Manhattan.

Many of the displaced residents were not allowed to return to the area for months and none were given government guidance of where to live temporarily on the already crowded island of Manhattan.

Because Broadway is a true north – south route that parallels the Hudson River and preceded the grid that the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 imposed on the island, Broadway diagonally crosses Manhattan, its intersections with avenues marked by " squares " ( some merely triangular slivers of open space ) have induced some interesting architecture, such as the Flatiron Building.

This area of Manhattan is often called the Theater District or the Great White Way, a nickname originating in the headline " Found on the Great White Way " in the February 3, 1902 edition of the New York Evening Telegram.

* Columbus Avenue ( Manhattan ), a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City, also known as Ninth Avenue

Cantor Fitzgerald's corporate headquarters and New York City office, on the 101st-105th floors of One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan ( 2-6 floors above the impact zone of a hijacked airliner ), were destroyed during the September 11, 2001 attacks.

It is the largest single donation in the history of CUNY and has been used to buy a landmark building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that is to become the permanent home of the Honors College, and will add support to its endowment.

Notable disco hits based on movie and television themes included a medley from Star Wars, " Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band " ( 1977 ) by Meco, and " Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone " ( 1979 ) by The Manhattan Transfer.

Diffusion pumps used on the Calutron mass spectrometer s during the Manhattan Project.

* 1984 – Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan, New York City.

Bowie was chosen to curate the 2007 High Line Festival, selecting musicians and artists for the Manhattan event, and performed on Scarlett Johansson's 2008 album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head.