https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Mon, 04 May 2009 18:34:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 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]]>