Geographical Location - New York City
- Brooks Brothers Introduces Button-down Shirts
- Brower Forms Friends of the Earth
- Buckley Founds National Review
- Captain Kangaroo Debuts
- Carnegie Publishes His Self-Help Best-Seller
- Catch-22 Illustrates Antiwar Sentiment
- Chinese Immigrants Are Detained in New York
- Cohan’s Little Johnny Jones Premieres
- Construction Begins on the Empire State Building
- Consumers Union of the United States Emerges
- Coppola Revives Gangster Films with The Godfather Trilogy
- Cousins Founds SANE
- Crane Publishes The Bridge
- Davis’ Birth of the Cool Recordings Spawn 1950’s Cool Jazz
- Deconstructivists Exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art
- Design for the Real World Reorients Industrial Design
- Diners Club Begins a New Industry
- Disney’s Fantasia Premieres and Redefines the Boundaries of Animation
- Do the Right Thing Establishes Lee as a World-Class Director
- Dow Jones Adds Microsoft and Intel
- Dow Jones Industrial Average Tops 10,000
- Dreiser’s Sister Carrie Shatters Literary Taboos
- Drexel and Michael Milken Are Charged with Insider Trading
- Dreyfuss Designs the Bell “300” Telephone
- Drucker Examines Managerial Roles
- Du Pont Announces the Discovery of Nylon 66
- Dutch Elm Disease Arrives in the United States
- Ellington Begins an Influential Engagement at the Cotton Club
- Ellison’s Invisible Man Is Published
- Empire State Building Opens
- The Empire State Building Opens as the World’s Tallest Building
- Esslin Publishes The Theatre of the Absurd
- Federalist Papers Are Published
- Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy Meets with Unexpected Success
- A Financial Panic Results from a Run on the Knickerbocker Trust
- The First Color Television Broadcast Takes Place
- First Digital High-Definition Television Signals Are Broadcast
- The First Female Conservative Rabbi Is Ordained
- First Jewish Settlers
- The First Pulitzer Prizes Are Awarded
- The First Successful Synthesizer Is Completed
- First Telegraph Message
- The First Transcontinental Telephone Call Is Made
- Forbes Magazine Is Founded
- The Ford Foundation Begins to Fund Nonprofit Theaters
- The Formation of the Blue Four Advances Abstract Painting
- The Garbage Industry Introduces Reforms
- General Public Utilities Announces Plans for a Commercial Nuclear Reactor
- Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Opens in New York
- Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue Premieres in New York
