New York City History for Kids: From New Amsterdam to the Big Apple with 21 Activities
1832 Cholera kills over 3 500 people 1835 Great fire 1841 Barnum's American Museum opens 1842 Croton water system is completed 1849 Astor Place Riot 1853 World Exhibition is held at the newly built Crystal Palace 1857 Central Park is constructed 64 1863 Draft Riots 1871 William Boss Tweed is arrested 1882 First electric lights in the city 1883 Brooklyn Bridge opens 1886 Statue of Liberty is completed 1888 Blizzard cripples the city 1892 Ellis Island opens 1898 Consolidation Act takes effect combining Brooklyn Queens Staten Island and Bronx with Manhattan 1900S
1902 Macy’s opens in Herald Square 1904 NYC subway opens General Slocum fire 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire 1919 Prohibition begins 1920 Babe Ruth joins the Yankees 1929 Stock market crash 1931 Empire State Building is completed 1939 World's Fair is held at Flushing Meadows 40 Queens 1950 First part of the United Nations complex opens 1963 Old Penn Station is demolished 1964 Beatles arrive in New York 1964 World's Fair is held at Flushing
65 Queens 1977 Blackout plunges the city into darkness massive looting follows 1986 Javits Convention Center opens 2001 Twin Towers are destroyed in terrorist attack 2012 Freedom Tower becomes tallest building in the city
Introduction OFTEN TRY TO imagine what life was like for my great great grandfather Carl Friedrich He was the first of my ancestors to arrive in New York City When he set foot on Manhattan Island in 1866 as a young man of 18 what a sight must have greeted his eyes What a commotion Peo ple everywhere were bustling about There
