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THE NEW YORK SUN · TUESDAY MARCH 13TH, 1888; BLIZZARD WAS KING. The Metropolis Helpless Under Snow. Hardly a Wheel Turns. Business Knocked Flat as if By a Panic. Plays, Trials, Funerals, all Postponed. Fifty Train Loads of Passengers Stuck on the Main Lines.
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www.nycsubway.org/articles/1888-blizzard.html
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As the blizzard grew in strength, Arc lighting was the city's first form of electric lighting, and replaced the dirty and low-luminance gas lighting that had illuminated New York City streets and homes since the 1830s. In the years after 1880, Brush Electric Company built additional power stations ... By 1888, a burgeoning,
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www.virtualny.cuny.edu/blizzard/building/building_fr_se...
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New Yorkers who are up to a slushy slog to Central Park West and 77th Street may sneer at the current messiness when they encounter an exhibition on the legendary Blizzard of '88 - 1888, that is. ... In a New York way, people helped and people profited. It was the worst of times and only in later years did some of those...
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www.nytimes.com/1988/01/14/arts/recalling-the-blizzard-...
www.nytimes.com/1988/01/14/arts/recalling-the-blizzard-of-1888.html
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New York City, Blizzard of 1888 ... New York City, Blizzard of 1888, New York Historical Society ... Broadway New York City, Blizzard of 1888, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration...
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lighteningstorms.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_great_bli...
lighteningstorms.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_great_blizzard_of_1888
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“The most famous snowstorm in American history, the Blizzard of 1888, ... Light amounts of snow fell from the mountains of Tennessee up through the state of Maryland, while heavier snow fell from New Jersey up through eastern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and much of southern New England, except Rhode Island and...
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But putting it all in perspective, it'll never top the absolute worst March snowstorm of all time, a snowy catastrophe that completely shut down the city -- the Blizzard of 1888. In an age before radio and ... One unfortunate reporter for the New York Sun was on a packed morning Sixth Avenue elevated and observed:
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The most famous snowstorm in American history, the Blizzard of 1888, ... Telegraph and telephone wires snapped, isolating New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington for days. Two hundred ships were grounded, and at least one hundred seamen died. Fire stations were immobilized, and property loss from fire alone was...
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www.infoplease.com/spot/blizzard1.html
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In March 1888 a hugh blizzard hit the New York area. While I have only been able to find information on its effect in Manhattan, it can be assumed that Brooklyn and Hoboken, N.J. suffered through the same storm. The following family was in the area at the time: ... Blizzard, March 12, 1888, New York City...
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www.maggieblanck.com/NewYork/Blizzard88.html
www.maggieblanck.com/NewYork/Blizzard88.html
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New York City Monday, March 12-14 The great blizzard of 1888 claimed a victim in Roscoe Conkling, the eminent lawyer, who had been Senator from New York. He had made his way through the drifts of snow in the morning and got to his office.
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www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Manhattan/1888.Snow.html
www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Manhattan/1888.Snow.html
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