https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Fri, 25 Dec 2015 01:18:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/324 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 04:02:48 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=324 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1003 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:09:42 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1003 William Bradford published Manhattan's first newspaper, the New York Gazette, on November 16, 1725. According to F.L. Mott's American Journalism, it was two pages long. Each page was ten by fifteen inches with two columns of text, "chiefly foreign news from three to six months old, state papers]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/292 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:04:51 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=292 In the golden age of American newspaper journalism, those 60 years between 1890 and 1950, New York had as many as 14 English-language dailies, with telegraphs and telephones to speed the news-gathering, even as high-speed presses printed tens of thousands of newspapers an hour. The radio was not]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1026 Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:37:35 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1026 In 1900, when newspapers were still the only mass media, over thirty daily papers of general and specialized circulation were published in Manhattan alone. But by the Twenties, a combination of massive capital investment and increasing difficulties in getting through traffic jams to deliver the newspapers to customers made launching]]>