From the Archives
1889: The Mirror's first edition, printed in a Nassau Street loft
A reported account from the archives desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.
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From the Archives
Drawn from 136 years of Daily Mirror morgue files, photographs and reporters' notebooks.
From the Archives
1904: The subway opens, and the city rearranges itself in a decade
Our archives desk traced the money, the timeline and the assumptions behind the announcement — including the one that may not hold.
From the Archives
1911: After the Triangle fire, a state learns to write labor law
Filings, hearing transcripts and internal projections reviewed by our archives desk, with the neighborhood detail the summaries leave out.
From the Archives
1929: Three days in October, reported from the exchange floor
A reported account from the archives desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.
From the Archives
1939: The World's Fair sells a future that never quite arrived
A reported account from the archives desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.
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1945: A city of returning soldiers and vanishing rooms
The numbers are modest and the second-order effects are not. What the record shows, and what the people affected say about it.
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1955: The Dodgers win, and Brooklyn keeps the ticket stubs
Our archives desk traced the money, the timeline and the assumptions behind the announcement — including the one that may not hold.
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1965: The blackout that made 8 million people neighbors
Filings, hearing transcripts and internal projections reviewed by our archives desk, with the neighborhood detail the summaries leave out.
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1969: Stonewall, as our reporters first described it
Filings, hearing transcripts and internal projections reviewed by our archives desk, with the neighborhood detail the summaries leave out.
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1975: 'Ford to City' — the fiscal crisis in the paper's own words
Support does not follow the usual borough lines. It follows density, transit and the age of the housing stock.
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1977: The blackout summer and the arguments that followed
A reported account from the archives desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.
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1980: The transit strike that put a million people on foot
The numbers are modest and the second-order effects are not. What the record shows, and what the people affected say about it.
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1990: The year the crime numbers turned, unnoticed
Our archives desk traced the money, the timeline and the assumptions behind the announcement — including the one that may not hold.
From the Archives
2001: The morning edition that never reached the newsstands
Filings, hearing transcripts and internal projections reviewed by our archives desk, with the neighborhood detail the summaries leave out.
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2012: Sandy's waterline, still marked on Front Street
A reported account from the archives desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.