
1693 - William Bradford's Print Shop

1725 - First Issue New-York Gazette

1734-1735 - Trial of John Peter Zenger

29 September 1735 - Freedom Box Presentted to Andrew Hamilton

1752 - Independent Reflector

1762-1784 - New York Journal

Nov. 1774 - "A Full Vindication of Congress"

20 April 1775 - Rivington's Defense of Press Freedom

9 July 1776 - John Holt's Declaration of Independence

1787-1800 - Thomas Greenleaf's Journal

1787/89 Daily Advertiser and Gazette of US

1787-1788 The Federalist Paper

20 February 1792 - Postal Act

1793 - American Minerva - America's First Daily Newspaper

1790/95 - Weekly Museum and NY Magazine

1797-1824 - The Medical Repository

1801 - Hamilton Founds NY Evening Post

1806 - First appearance of "Cocktail"

1807 - Salmagundi Magazine

1807 - Looking Glass for the Mind, Alexander Anderson

1817 - J & J HarperFounded

1 August 1819 - Birthdate of Herman Melville

25 Sept. 1825 - M.M. Noah opens Jewish Refuge

1826-1878 - Bryant edits NY Evening Post

Gov. Dewitt Clinton (1817-1822 and 1825-1828)

16 March 1827 - Freedom's Journal

Jan. 1833 - Knickerbocker Magazine

3 September 1833 - The Sun

1834 - New Yorker Staats Zeitung

7-11 July 1834 Anti-Abolitionist Riot

1835 - "The Moon Hoax"

6 May 1835 - The New York Herald

1837 - The Democratic Review

1838 - The Mirror of Liberty

1839 - The New World

16 Jan. 1840 - Lexington Disaster Print

1840 - National Anti-Slavery Standard

1841 - First depiction of Santa Claus

12 September 1841 - New York Tribune

14 Sept. 1842 - The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck

1842 - T. W. Strong Print Shop

1843 - R. Hoe patents "The Lightning Press"

1844 - Mathew Brady's Gallery of Daguerreotypes

1845 - Richard K. Fox founds Police Gazette

1845-1846 Wiley's Library of American Books

1847 - Firth, Pond, and Company

La Verdad (1848-1853)

August 1850 - "Hawthorne and His Mosses"

Jan. 1851 - Phrenological Journal

1853 - Voice from the Old Brewery
1857 Central Park

1855 - The Crayon

1855 - Street & Smith Founded

1855 - New York Ledger

1857-1907 - Currier and Ives

1859 - Vanity Fair

27 Feb. 1860 - Brady Photograph of Lincoln

June 1860 - First Dime Novel

13-16 July 1863

Dec. 1863 - Anti-Lincoln Pamphlet

26 Nov. 1864 -- Lincoln Reelected

1864 - American News Company

15 July 1865 - Barnum Museum Fire

1868 - The Revolution

1871 - NY Times "Boss" Tweed Scandal

5 Nov. 1872 - Susan B. Anthony Votes

December 1872 - Death of Greeley

1873-1937 The Delineator Magazine

1873 - Forest and Stream

4 March 1880 - "A Scene in Shantytown"

1882 - Frank Munsey founds Argosy

1886 - Invention of the Linotype Machine

1887 - The New York Age

1887 - H.C. Bunner's Story of a NY House

1890 - Pulitzer Building

3 March 1891 - International Copyright Bill

1892 - "Southern Horrors" Ida B. Wells

1893-1929 - McClure's Magazine

November 1894 - First Color Comic

Dec. 1894-Nov. 1895 - Jude the Obscure

5 January 1896 - Richard Outcault's "Yellow Kid"

10 October 1896 - NYTimes Book Review Begins

1897 - Birth of "Tin Pan Alley"

1897 -Jewish Daily Forward

1900-1909 The Colored American Magazine

17 March 1900 - George Herriman comes to NYC

1902 - "What is News?"

Jan. 1903 - Stieglitz issues Camera Work

1903 - The Return of Sherlock Holmes

June 1906 "Trial of the Century"

1907 - Dill Pickles Rag

1908 - 1923 - The New York Evening Call

1909 - Perkins founds The ForeRunner

1909 - The Crisis Magazine

December 1909 - Amsterdam News

1911-1917 - The Masses Magazine

1913 - Vanity Fair

October 1915 - Women's Suffrage Parade

1919 - The Dial Magazine

Oct. 1920 - Frank Shay's Bookstore Opens

Sept. 1920 - Washington Square Bookshop Raided

3 March 1923 - Time Magazine

1924-1958 - The Daily Worker

March 1925 - Survey Graphic "Harlem" Issue

April 1926 -- Amazing Stories

February 1930 - Fortune Magazine

October 1930 - Esquire Magazine

1 May 1933 - The Catholic Worker

1934 - Ulysses Ruled "Not Pornographic"

1935 - Mademoiselle Magazine

23 November 1936 - Life Magazine

1938 - Richard Wright writes Native Son

June 1945 - Mayor LaGuardia Reads the Comics

1954 - Sports Illustrated

Winter 1955 - Jack Kerouac's "Mexican Girl"

1957 - Founding of Evergreen Review

11 March 1959 - "A Raisin in the Sun" opens on Broadway

Oct. 1959, "The Decline of Book Reviewing," Harper's Magazine

November 1960 - "Superman Comes to the Supermart" by Norman Mailer

20 May 1962 - First Use of "Woke"

1963 - El Diario

1963- Stephen Poleskie founds Chiron Press

Dec. 1963 - Dune Appears in Analog

1964 - Peace Eye Bookstore

1965 - The East Village Other


1967-1973 -- Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine

7 September 1968 - Miss America Protest

January 1970 - Feminist Takeover of Rat

1973 - Cricket Magazine: The Magazine for Children

1976 - Punk Magazine

2015 - The New Yorker Moves to 1 World Trade Center