Adams was an officer in the New York City Traffic Police and then in the New York City Police Department for a longer time. The following 104 pages are in this category, out of 104 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. As the first public artist in residence of the New York City Human Rights Commission, TATYANA FAZLALIZADEH creates public art to draw attention to the negative impact of racial and gender-based street harassment.
Gelatin silver print by Lorna Simpson (1960-) courtesy of the artist and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York. The biggest wave of Italian and Russian-Jewish immigration to New York begins driven by hardship and persecution across Europe. Born in 1949 and currently living between New York City and Gary (Indiana), KAY ROSEN's paintings, drawings, editions, collages, installations and language-based videos have been exhibited in museums and institutions for four decades, such as the Museum of Modern Art, The Drawing Center, the 2000 and 1991 Whitney Museum American Art Biennials and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Inauguration of the Empire State Building; the Whitney Museum of American Art opens; the George Washington Bridge that connects Manhattan to the American continent opens; the first television station opens in New York.
New York City's last slave market closes in Clark's Slip, on the coast of the East River, at the foot of Wall Street, where business leaders and merchants who meet at the nearby Tontine's coffee shop finally reject its wild plague. Governor John Jay signs into law a law for the gradual abolition of slavery, which gives final freedom to children born to slaves in New York. Maynard's achievements in Weeksville coincided with community-driven monument preservation efforts throughout New York City, but he broadened his focus to include diverse cultural and economic preservation. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and his family move to the Gracie Mansion as the first official residents of New York's “Little White House”, as the regional public official, Robert Moses, who was then close to the apex of his extensive powers, has always sought; Moses uses wartime security as a catalytic imperative for the move.
The program is a vehicle for “constant dialogue” between immigrants and the government and seeks to build a sense of trust between the New York City government and its immigrant communities. The Yankees sign Babe Ruth; nicknamed “El Bambino” and “The Sultan of Swat”, he began his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a batsman for the New York Yankees. To accommodate the growing number of immigrants to the United States who use New York as their first port of call, an official immigration center was established in Castle Garden. David Dinkins is elected 106th mayor of New York City, the first African-American to hold office; he settles in the Gracie Mansion with his wife Joyce.
The Continental Congress meets in New York to organize resistance to British parliamentary authority after the passage of the Stamp Act. Students from the Calhoun National School Collage Museum in memory of September 11 &, gift from The Calhoun School, New York City. Baseera Khan (1983-) Bidirectional acrylic and chromatic mirror film Image courtesy of the artist and the Simone Subal Gallery in New York.
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