During the summer of 1896, a 10-day heat wave killed nearly 1,500 people across New York City — many of them tenement-dwellers. In Hot Time in the Old Town, historian Ed Kohn describes the ...

Author Edward Kohn discusses lessons learned from New York’s 1896 heat wave.

COLONIAL NEW YORK CITY; How the Coopers Formed the First Trust and Were Sat On. LINES FROM A QUAINT OLD ALMANAC Sebring's Scheme to Improve the Ferry Service Between Nassau and Manhattan Islands.

New York City's first automobile accident occurred on May 30, 1896, when Henry Wells of Springfield, Massachusetts, struck cyclist Ebeling Thomas on the "Western Boulevard." ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In August 1896, two blasts of hot air hit New York: • A heat wave wrapped around the city from Aug. 4-13, killing 1,300 ...

By 1892, 27% of American millionaires resided in New York City, and the city's dominance as an epicenter for capitalist enterprise was so well established as to seem both natural and inevitable.

This article was originally published with the title “The Transportation Problem in New York City” inScientific American Magazine Vol. 74 No. 4(January 1896), p. 50doi:10.1038 ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Transportation Problem in New York City” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 74 No. 8 (February 1896), p. 114 doi:10.1038 ...