1904
The Year Everything Important Happened
1904: Category Archive for New York City

Make It Work

ABBA

Renoir complains

A Retrospective Exhibition of Pissarro's Work

The General Slocum

Longacre Square is renamed

First commercially successful portable typewriter

The first tunnel under the Hudson River

"The Impossible Voyage" by Georges Mélies

The St. Regis Hotel opens its doors

The First U.S. Open Polo Championship is played in Van Courtlandt Park

Fats Waller [1904-1943]

Astor Place Subway Station Opens

Elsie de Wolfe Leaves the Stage for Good

Jerome Zerbe Part Two

New York's Subway System Opens

Sibelius leaves Helsinki and sets to work on his Third Symphony

Mark Twain buys a house at 21 Fifth Avenue, New York; starts dictating his autobiography