New York City cultural history

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. Chapters: Savoy Ballroom, Cafe Au Go Go, CBGB, Brooklyn Theater Fire, Culture of New York City, New York School, Vilna Troupe, Parachute Jump, Studio 54, Freedomland U.S.A., Racial and ethnic history of New York City, Hotel Carter, Manhattan, St. Brigid's Roman Catholic Church, Tin Pan Alley, Bradley-Martin Ball, Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Marian Spore Bush, Tenth Street galleries, Bodley Gallery, 9th Street Art Exhibition, Irving Plaza, Chatham Garden Theatre, Gerde's Folk City, Ringolevio, Park Place Gallery, Dreamland, Marbridge Building, Weylin Hotel, Boulevard Gardens Apartments, Queens, Skully, The Pastellists, Palladium, The Art of This Century gallery, Allerton Hotel for Women, Grolier Club, Electric Circus, African Grove, Modern School, Primary Structures, A.I.R. Gallery, Luna Park, Coney Island, Asian American Arts Centre, Dauphin Hotel, Sin-é, Topsy, Olcott Hotel, De La Salle Institute, The Gaslight Cafe, Silk Centre, Bronx Lyceum, Terminal 5, Steeplechase Park, Plato's Retreat, John William Warde, Lapskaus Boulevard, Huyler's, B'hoy and g'hal, L.P. Hollander Company Building, Bretton Hall, Manhattan, Bowery Amphitheatre, Heinrich Conried, The World, Bradford Hotel (New York, New York), Appleton Building, Chelsea Corners, Prudence Building, Judge Building, Stoop ball, Williamsbridge Reservoir, New England Society of New York, Sea Lion Park, St. Francis Xavier Church, New York City, Highbridge Reservoir, Hendrik Hudson Hotel, Charles Egan Gallery, Gunther Building, Gastrotypographicalassemblage, Terminal Bar, Old London Inc., Dean Johnson, Nathan Hale, Garfield Building, Save the Robots, Bloomingdale Park, Mechanics' Hall, Monarch Underwear Company fire, Luxor Hotel, Starrett Corporation, Wildenstein & Company Building, Dutch Treat Club, Disco Fever, August Brentano, Rolfe's Chop House, Salmon Tower Building, Asian American Dance Theatre, Lafayette Theatre, Canterbury Hall, New York City, Mortimer Building, Bush Terminal Company Building, Hoofers Club, Gallatin Bank Building, Mori's Restaurant, Hale Building, Manhattan Soap Company, Penny Cafeteria, Fairchild Brothers & Foster, Jumble Shop East, Burton Arms Apartments, Bone Alley, Sorosis, Harding Building, A7, Greeley Bar and Grill, Paprin's Restaurant, The Poets' Encyclopedia, Normandy Cafeteria, Woman with bicycle, Goodlyne Dress Company, Jackie 60, Del Pezzo Restaurant. Excerpt: The Brooklyn Theater Fire was a catastrophic theater fire that broke out on the evening of December 5, 1876 in the city of Brooklyn, New York, United States. The conflagration claimed the lives of at least 278 individuals, with some accounts reporting over 300 dead. 103 unidentified victims were interred in a common grave at Green-Wood Cemetery. An obelisk near the main entrance at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street marks the burial site. More than two dozen identified victims were interred individually in separate sections at the Cemetery of the Evergreens in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Theater Fire ranks third in fatalities, among fires occurring in theaters and other public assembly buildings in the United States, falling behind the 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire and the 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire. Fatalities mainly arose in the family circle, a gallery of inexpensive seats situated high in the auditorium. Only one stairway serviced this gallery, which sustained extreme temperatures and dense, suffocating smoke early in the conflagration. The stairway jammed with people, ...