* May 12 – New York's Third Avenue Elevated runs its last train between Chathem Square in Manhattan and East 149th Street in the Bronx, thus ending elevated train service in Manhattan.

Her last public appearance was September 23, 1974, at a party honoring her old friend Rosalind Russell at New York's Rainbow Room.

The last meeting for them is a wistful coda on New York's Upper West Side when they have both moved on to someone new.

The last reported judicial opinion in the case was a ruling by New York's second highest court that the case could not be resolved upon briefs and affidavits but must go to trial.

The pachanga was the last Cuban popular dance to take ahold in New York's Latin community.

The Sunday Times reported in July 2008 that for " the Duke of York's public role ,... he last year received £ 436, 000 to cover his expenses.

A month after his last fight, Robinson was honored with a Sugar Ray Robinson Night on December 10, 1965 in New York's Madison Square Garden.

* Glenmere Lake – A reservoir that hosts New York's last population of the endangered Northern Cricket Frog.

One of his last projects was the magazine Egg, which chronicled New York's nightlife.

New York's population grew substantially during this century: from the first colonial census ( 1698 ) to the last ( 1771 ), the province grew ninefold, from 18, 067 to 168, 007.

World War II constituted New York's last great industrial era.

* September 28-In the last chapter of their trilogy, Muhammad Ali retains the world Heavyweight championship with a disputed fifteen round unanimous decision over Ken Norton, at New York's Yankee Stadium.

His maternal grandfather John Watts, the last Royal Recorder of New York City, was one of New York's wealthiest residents, who had vast holdings in ships, mills, factories, banks, and investment houses.

East York's last mayor was Michael Prue who went on to become city councillor for East York, and then a Member of Provincial Parliament for Beaches — East York in 2001.

Built at a cost of $ 10 million – over double the price for New York's arena three years earlier – Boston Garden turned out to be the last of the series, a decision fueled by high costs and Rickard's death in 1929.

Irving's last Broadway appearance was in the American premiere of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia at New York's Lincoln Center during its 2006 – 07 season.

* Eastman Gang, last of New York's street gangs which dominated the city's underworld during the late 1890s until early 1910s

York's last match at Clarence Street produced a 26 – 17 victory over Hunslet in front of a crowd of 2, 904 spectators.

In reviewing Goold's revival of the play at the Duke of York's Theatre in 2008, Billington points out that " Hirst, a litterateur haunted by dreams and memories, is, as he tells Spooner, ' in the last lap of a race I had long forgotten to run '.

A thriving commercial zone has emerged along Vanderbilt Avenue and Washington Avenue, which in just the last few years has been the location for new bars, restaurants and specialty shops, including New York's first steampunk bar, boutique wine shop and restaurant opened by Michelin-starred chef.

The last reported judicial opinion in the case was a ruling by New York's second highest court that the case could not be resolved upon briefs and affidavits but must go to trial.

* Chuck Connors, one of the last of the Tammany Hall associates, dies of heart failure in New York's Hudson Street Hospital at the age of 61.

" New York's Supreme Court is not the court of last resort.

This newer type of braking, WABCO schedule AMUE, would be standard in New York's subways through the 1930s, and lasted in limited quantity until as late as 1977 ( when the R1-R9s, the last of the prewar cars, were retired from service ).

In 1770, a group of Wentworth grant holders asked Allen to defend their case before New York's Supreme Court, a move that presented Allen with his first big stage.

Some of his early stage work included Getting Out performed at New York's Phoenix Theater, and Flux which he did at Second Stage Theatre during their 1981 – 1982 season.

An important turning point in radio drama came when Schenectady, New York's WGY, after a successful tryout on August 3, 1922, began weekly studio broadcasts of full-length stage plays in September 1922, using music, sound effects and a regular troupe of actors, The WGY Players.

The play premiered in 1952 on BBC television, before being performed on the stage in the same year in London's West End in June, and then New York's Broadway in October.

Other stage work at this time included The Night of the Ball ( New Theatre, 1955 ), the new Robert Bolt play Flowering Cherry ( Haymarket, 1958, Broadway, 1959 ), Toys in the Attic ( Piccadilly, 1960 ), The Wings of the Dove ( Lyric, 1963 ), A Measure of Cruelty ( Birmingham Repertory, 1965 ), A Present for the Past ( Edinburgh, 1966 ), The Sacred Flame ( Duke of York's Theatre, 1967 ) with Gladys Cooper, The Battle of Shrivings ( Lyric, 1970 ) with John Gielgud and Lies ( Albery, 1975 ).

Lauper joined them on stage for a one-time performance at New York's Lone Star Cafe.

It looked as though Gielgud would retire from the stage after appearing in Half Life at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1978, but he made a successful comeback in 1988 in Hugh Whitemore's play The Best of Friends as museum curator Sydney Cockerell.

Meanwhile, there had been several attempts at legitimate black stage performance, the most ambitious probably being New York's African Grove theater, founded and operated by free blacks in 1821, with a repertoire drawing heavily on Shakespeare.

Channing's first job on stage in New York was in Marc Blitzstein's No For an Answer, starting January 5, 1941 at the Mecca Temple ( later New York's City Center ).

Rand once replaced Ann Corio in the stage show, This Was Burlesque, appeared at the Mitchell Brothers club in San Francisco in the early 1970s and toured as one of the stars of the 1972 nostalgia revue " Big Show of 1928 ," which played major concert venues including New York's Madison Square Garden.

From the age of 12 to 17, Elinor sang in a hotel band in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains until bouts of stage fright ( a condition her son would later be afflicted with ) forced her to discontinue performing live.

The singer's Metropolitan Opera debut in the 1907 season was disappointing due to the unprecedented frankness of his stage acting ; but he returned to the Met in 1921 and sang there with immense success for eight seasons, New York's audiences having grown more broad-minded since 1907.

In October 1920, she and Esmond toured Canada with Nigel Bruce as their stage manager, who also played Montague Jordan in Eliza Comes to Stay, which re-opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in London on 14 June 1923.

He also played in a charity softball game in New York's Central Park to help raise money for children in need of neurosurgery, designed guitars for a MusiCares fundraiser, and has performed in plays on stage for charities such as The Hollywood Police Activities League ( a national youth development program for at-risk youth ) as well.

The stage is among the largest and best-equipped of all of New York's theaters.

A stage adaptation of Softley's film Backbeat is being performed at the Duke of York's Theatre, London ( 17 September-24 March 2011 ) co-written with Stephen Jeffreys, musical direction by Paul Stacey, and directed by David Leveaux.

A highlight of Dunham's later career was the invitation from New York's Metropolitan Opera to stage dances for a new production of Aida starring Leontyne Price.

While he wrote mostly for the BBC, it appears that his plays were also produced in many other countries, including the CBC in Canada Hanley play Say Nothing was on stage for a month at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East in 1962 and off Broadway, New York, in 1965, while Inner Journey was on stage in Hamburg in 1966, as well as New York's The Lincoln Center for a month in 1969.

A 1905 performance in New York, this time on a public stage, was interrupted by the police who arrested the cast and crew for violation of New York's version of the Comstock laws.

She also played Audrey in the stage production of Little Shop of Horrors at The Menier Chocolate Factory, London, from November 2006 which then moved to The Duke of York's Theatre in March 2007, and due to a very successful run moved again at the end of June 2007 to The New Ambassadors Theatre, its run ended in September 2007.

In February 2006, she performed in a New End Theatre production of the Carl Djerassi play Taboos, and in early 2007 appeared in a London stage production of Tom Stoppard's Rock ' n ' Roll at the Duke of York's Theatre.

Johnston made her professional stage debut with New York's Atlantic Theater Company, which was founded by playwright David Mamet.

Simm returned to the west end stage in Autumn of 2009 to critical acclaim, starring opposite Ian Hart, Lucy Cohu and Kerry Fox in the Andrew Bovell play Speaking in Tongues, at the Duke of York's theatre.