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1904: The Subway Opens and New York Is Rearranged
From our front page the morning after the first train left City Hall.
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A century and a half of New York, drawn from our morgue of clippings, plates and negatives.
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1911: The Triangle Fire and the Laws That Followed
Our reporters walked Washington Place; the state rewrote its labor code.
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1929: Three Weeks in October, as We Printed Them
Market reports, denials and the slow arrival of the word depression.
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1939: The World's Fair Promises the Future in Queens
Flushing Meadows as a rehearsal for the century.
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1945: V-J Day on Our Streets
Photographs from Times Square, and the dispatches beneath them.
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1955: The Brooklyn Dodgers Win, Once
The only championship, reported without knowing what came next.
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1965: The Night the Lights Went Out
A blackout, a city that behaved well, and a grid nobody understood.
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1975: 'Ford to City' and the Fiscal Crisis Up Close
Municipal bankruptcy as a live question in our newsroom.
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1977: A Summer of Heat, Blackout and Baseball
Three stories that collided in July.
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1980: The Transit Strike That Walked to Work
Eleven days, a million pedestrians and the Brooklyn Bridge.
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1986: The Statue of Liberty's Second Unveiling
Restoration, centennial and a harbor full of boats.
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1993: The First Attack on the Trade Center
What we reported that week, and what was missed.
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2001: The Editions We Never Wanted to Print
September 12 through September 16, from the composing room.
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2012: Sandy and the Water That Came Up the Streets
Flooded tunnels, dark hospitals and a coastline reconsidered.
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A Century of Our Own Corrections
What a newspaper's mistakes reveal about the city it covers.
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