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  New York Post - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New York Post is one of the oldest (and according to some definitions, the oldest) newspapers still published in the United States.
As Steven D. Cuozzo, the Post executive editor, sees it, it was the Post that "broke the elitist media stranglehold on the national agenda." Post supporters cite a series of recent scandals at the supposedly-reputable broadsheet New York Times as proof that this problem is scarcely unique to the Post.
The Public Enemy song "A Letter to the New York Post" is a complaint about what they believed to be negative and inaccurate coverage the group received from the paper.
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 New York Newspapers Pre 1927
He established the "New York Royal Gazette" "published by James Rivington, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty." During the remaining five years of the war, Rivington's paper was the most distinguished for its mendacities and its disloyalty to America of all the Journals in the colonies.
An amalgamation of the "New York Herald" and the "New York Tribune." The "Tribune" was long noted as the mouthpiece of Horace Greeley.
Foreign news had always received more attention in the "Times" than in the average New York newspaper of pre-war days, but this department was further strengthened, especially after the introduction of wireless telegraphy, in the use of which the "Times" was a pioneer.
www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Newspaper/NYNewspapers.html   (4248 words)

  
 New York Post -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Post was repurchased in 1988 by Murdoch's (additional info and facts about News Corporation) News Corporation, after his receiving American citizenship ended any restriction upon his ownership of U.S. media.
The New York Post is also well known for its (A report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people) gossip columnists (additional info and facts about Liz Smith) Liz Smith, Cindy Adams and Elisa Lipsky-Karasz.
The daily circulation of the Post slumped from 700,000 in the late (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s to approximately 418,000.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/new_york_post.htm   (517 words)

  
 §11. New York: "The Evening Post". XXI. Newspapers, 1775–1860. Vol. 16. Early National Literature, Part II; ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Evening Post, reflecting variously the fine qualities of the editor, exemplified the improvement in tone and illustrated the growing importance of editorial writing, as did a dozen or more papers in the early decades of the century.
In contrast with the situation today, when the magazines are generally conducted by men whose tastes and ideals have been formed in journalism rather than in literature, and assume more and more the characteristics of timeliness, until the middle of the century the newspapers owed their character to men of literary tastes and pursuits.
When Bennett the elder referred slurringly to the “poets of the Post” and the Post declared that Bennett was not a journalist, a momentous divergence and change of ideals was indicated.
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 The Drunkard's Best Friend by Jack Alexander, Saturday Evening Post, April 1, 1950
A new member gets a sponsor immediately, and it is the function of the sponsor to accompany him to meetings, to see that he gets all the help he needs and to be on call at any time for emergencies.
Though there is a stigma even to getting sober in small towns, it is less virulent than the souse stigma, and word of the movement spreads throughout the county and into adjoining counties.
New York, a catchall for screwballs and semiscrewballs from all over, is pious about gambling, and won't have it around the place.
www.eskimo.com /~burked/post1950/post1950.html   (5820 words)

  
 Read about New York Post at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research New York Post and learn about New York Post here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The New York Post is the oldest continuously-published
New York Times as proof that this problem is scarcely unique to the Post.
News Corporation, after his receiving American citizenship ended any restriction upon his ownership of U.S. media.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/New_York_Evening_Post   (574 words)

  
 NYC history
New York City was the birthplace of rowing in the United States and continued to be a center of rowing activity
Fortunately, a new era in city government and participation by private non-for-profit organizations have recognized the value of public access to and use of the waterfront and may mean the resurgence of rowing's legacy in New York City.
Even earlier, in the 1890's there was held an annual "Venetian Festival of the Boat Clubs" where "crafts of all kinds illuminated with Japanese lanterns, gliding to and from on the waters presented a beautiful spectacle." (New York Tribune, September 10, 1893)
www.nyu.edu /athletics/clubs/crew/nychistory.html   (2463 words)

  
 New York Post
[[Image Link]] The New York Post is one of the oldest (and according to some definitions, the oldest) of the newspapers still published in the United States.
The Post was repurchased in 1988 by Murdoch's News Corporation and has taken a consistently conservative editorial viewpoint since being re-acquired by Murdoch after its near-insolvency in 1993.
Despite being one of New York City's most widely read newspapers, reports made public in 1993 showed that the Post continually runs at a loss and is supported by funding from Rupert Murdoch to keep a conservative newspaper in the City.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/new_york_post   (532 words)

  
 History News Network
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He was the son of Henry Villard, a wealthy railroad magnate, who owned the The Nation and The New York Evening Post.
In 1910, he donated space in The New York Evening Post for the “call” to the meeting which formerly organized the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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 Journal of Social History: An unusable past: urban elites, New York City's evacuation day, and the transformations of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
One of the few times Evacuation Day was commemorated beyond the New York City area was in 1829, when residents of Baltimore dedicated a statue of George Washington on November 25th to acknowledge the aid New Yorkers had sent during the War of 1812.
New York Evening Post, November 25, 1829; excerpt from unnamed and undated Baltimore newspaper, quoted in New York Journal of Commerce, November 28, 1829.
The adoption of a new route moved the parade to the new residential and commercial districts being developed farther uptown.
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 New York Post Online Edition: learncenter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
By midnight, the entire business district was in flames, including the Stock Exchange, the merchants exchange, post office, two churches, several major banks, warehouses and dry-goods facilities.
The greatest thing that resulted from the fire was that New York's antiquated water system was replaced with the biggest and most modern water system in the world - the Croton Water system.
Millions of gallons of water would travel through 41 miles of stone tunnels from upstate New York to the outskirts of the city.
www.nypost.com /learncenter/cextra/120204/class.htm   (654 words)

  
 Governor Richard C. McCormick
He was born in New York, New York on May 23, 1832 to Richard McCormick and Sarah Matilda Decker.
He later edited the New York Evening Post and was a war correspondent for that periodical during the Civil War.
He died in Jamaica, New York on June 2, 1901, and is buried in Grace Churchyard there.
jeff.scott.tripod.com /McCormick.html   (662 words)

  
 On William Cullen Bryant
The New York Evening Post was a paper established by the Federalist Party stalwart, Alexander Hamilton.
He died after attending the dedication of a bust of himself in New York that same year.
Although he published little as he became immersed in the journalistic life, he was extremely popular in his time and even one time was named as a candidate for President.
www.vcu.edu /engweb/webtexts/Bryant/brybio.html   (712 words)

  
 Jose Marti: Letter to the Editor March 25, 1889
I beg to be allowed the privilege of referring in your columns to the injurious criticism of the Cubans printed in the Manufacturer of Philadelphia, and reproduced in your issue of yesterday.
In New York the Cubans are directors in prominent banks, substantial merchants, popular brokers, clerks of recognized ability, physicians with a large practice.
The new generation is worthy of its sires.
www.fiu.edu /~fcf/martilettertoeditor.html   (677 words)

  
 Saturday Evening Post: New York's Scenic Finger Lakes - Brief Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Lured by the slogan that "Ithaca is Gorges" and nudged by a marketing campaign to "Uncork New York," vacationers are heading north and discovering "the little apple" has much to offer.
The Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, a collection of picturesque villages tucked around 11 jutting lakes, is the perfect destination for persons who crave the outdoor life and want to explore it at their own pace.
Even the most casual gardener will want to spend at least two hours roaming the acres and tiers of manicured plots that trace the role of plants through history.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1189/is_1_272/ai_58411302   (985 words)

  
 New York University | Bobst Library: New York City Newspapers in Bobst on Microform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The words "New York", "Daily", "Morning", "Evening", etc., at the head of the titles have been ignored.
Periodical Abstracts (1986 to present) is a multi-disciplinary resource, especially useful for research on contemporary topics or for the beginning stages of a research project.
New York City Newspapers in Bobst on Microform
library.nyu.edu /research/news/nyc.html   (2024 words)

  
 Cuba - U.S. Relations
Mariana was a role model to the brave Cuban women who followed in her footsteps to the battlefield for the liberation of Cuba and the abolition of slavery.
In 1948 A new president is elected and Batista is elected to the Cuban Senate in a campaign that he runs from Florida.
The New York Times reports that this indictment raises the serious question of whether the Neutrality Act may be selectively enforced.
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 Nationally-distributed criticism of AA first appeared in a 1963 Harpers Magazine article.
At one New York City hospital, for instance, the physicians preferred using paraldehyde to treat acute intoxication.
A New Hampshire novelist and former A.A. member, who has been continuously sober for eight years, described this human waste when he wrote me- "I have met members who are actually afraid to think.
At national headquarters in New York City, Ellison declared, committee politics took up half the working day, and gossip was venomous.
www.eskimo.com /~burked/history/harpers.html   (2340 words)

  
 James Phelan on the Jim Garrison JFK Assassination Investigation
Heading the new -investigation into the death of John F. Kennedy was District Attorney Jim ("Jolly Green Giant") Garrison, a sixfoot-six-inch lawyer, with a contempt for orthodoxy and an instinctive dislike for anything that might be termed The Establishment.
Although the New Orleans coroner flatly declared his death due to natural causes (massive brain hemorrhage from an artery failure), Garrison referred to it darkly as a suicide, hinted it might be murder and began issuing a series of provocative statements.
Garrison then took Andrews before the New Orleans grand jury, and on March 16 he was indicted for perjury in a matter "relating to a conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy." Andrews brushed the matter aside with a pure Dean Andrews quote.
mcadams.posc.mu.edu /phelan.htm   (4784 words)

  
 New York Evening Post: "Death of S.G. Goodrich" (1860   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
New York Evening Post: "Death of S.G. Goodrich" (1860
DEATH OF S.G. GOODRICH, reprinted from the New York Evening Post (from Littell's Living Age 65 (9 June 1860, pp.
The obituary columns of to-day's city papers contain the announcement of the death of one of the oldest and most popular of American authors, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, better known as "Peter Parley," and, by the latter pseudonym, familiar to the great majority of children in this country.
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 E. L. Godkin
The American journalist and publicist E. Godkin was born in Moyne, county Wicklow, Ireland, on the 2nd of October 1831.
In 1881 he sold the Nation to the New York Evening Post, and became an associate editor of the Post, of which he was editor-in-chief in 1883-99, succeeding Carl Schurz.
Although he recovered from a severe apoplectic stroke early in 1900, his health was shattered, and he died in Greenway, Devonshire, England, on the 21st of May 1902.
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 New York Architecture Images- Garrison Building
The New York Evening Post is a 13-story limestone faced building designed by Robert D.Kohn between 1906 and 1907.
The Post building is an example of Vienna Secession, a 20th century European artistic refrom movement.
Another interesting aspect of the New York Evening Post Building is Gutzon Borglum, who sculpted Mount Rushmore, helped create the sturctures in the picture on the left.
www.nyc-architecture.com /LM/LM067.htm   (95 words)

  
 Raymond Hezekiah Torrey
He was a New York newspaperman, was a prolific writer, tireless trailblazer, exuberant hiker, unyielding conservationist, volunteer organizer, political lobbyist and diplomat.
His articles quickly made Welch's new confederation a success and his friendship with Welch resulted in an informal partnership that created 24 miles of new trail by the spring of 1921.
Aside from news of the clubs and trails, especially new ones, answers to readers’ questions, and assorted editorial comments, the most important feature was the weekly listing of hikes.
www.rpts.tamu.edu /pugsley/Torrey.htm   (1495 words)

  
 NYPL, The Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy
The New York Public Library's Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy is one of the largest genealogical and local history collections open to the public in this country, and, as such, it is one of the most heavily used divisions in the Library.
Federal census records for all states, 1790-1900, may be consulted on microfilm at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library.
The Library is a depository for New York State D.A.R. Genealogical Records Committee publications of New York Bible, cemetery, and vital records.
www.nypl.org /research/chss/lhg/research.html   (1341 words)

  
 Rollo Ogden: 1856-1937   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Evening Post continued to oppose the Bryan leadership in the economic sphere but showed itself sympathetic to the anti-imperialist issue brought forward by Bryan in the 1900 campaign.
Ogden in The Evening Post continued to assail the protectionist policies of the Republican party, stoutly championed the cause of civil service reform, and threw support to what would now be called progressive policies and in defense of what would now be called the underprivileged classes.
As Governor of New York for four years he had seemed to be more of a politician than a statesman; too often timid and hesitant and compromising; occasionally stooping to conquer questionable support; his eye more on a nomination for high office than on achievement in it.
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 LMEPF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Plans for West Street, including the creation of a grand esplanade and new housing, could endanger its showcase of spectacular early 20th century commercial buildings.
One of New York’s most beautiful and significant early 20th century skyscrapers designed by architect Cass Gilbert and a forerunner to his Woolworth Building
Eighth home of The New York Evening Post, its dramatic brick and limestone exterior is notable for the towers topped by terra cotta panels arranged in geometric patterns
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