John Peter Zenger, a German printer and journalist, was accused of libel in 1734 by William Cosby, the royal governor of New York, but the jury acquitted Zenger, who became a symbol for freedom of the press.

On Sept 21, an editorial in the NY Sun assures letter writer 8-year old Virginia O'Hanlon that there is a Santa Claus.

Its stated purpose was to create "an association of working-women which might act for the interests of its members, in the same manner as the associations of workingmen now regulate the wages, etc., of those belonging to them."

Among the first publications to be published by women. The Weekly published a variety of articles on such topics as women's suffrage, spiritualism, vegetarianism, free love, and socialism.

It primarily focused on women's rights, especially prohibiting discrimination against women voting, women's suffrage. It also covered politics, the labor movement, and finance.

As part of Joseph Pulitzer's fundraising campaign for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty; $100,000 was raised in 6 months - considered by many to be the 'first Kickstarter' campaign was a poem by Emma Lazarus The 'New Colossus'.

Henry Poor's collection of financial data for his History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States of America,led to the formation of a company to that publish information on stocks and bonds which grows into Standard & Poor's.

The oldest continuously published monthly American science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein, have contributed articles to it.

Constructed with the most advanced fireproofing technologies replacing a former headquarters of the New York World.

Several inventors devised machines to record sound prior to Thomas Edison's phonograph, Edison being the first to invent a device that could both record and reproduce sound.

Sold by newsboys hawking it on the street, the small format paper with stories devoted to local news, crime, scandal, and other topics of human interest, it soon had the largest circulation in the world

Park Row was nicknamed Newspaper Row, as most of New York City's newspapers were located on the street to be close to City Hall.

Potter erected a five-story Italianate stone building on the lot for $350,000; it became the first headquarters of the New York World.

The second journal in New York City and the only one that criticized New York Royal governor William Cosby, for which reason the journal was burned in its first year and John Zenger was put in prison.

The tallest building in New York, designed by Richard Morris Hunt who was the 1st American Architect to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.

The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, one of the oldest German-language weekly newspapers in the United States.

William Randolph Hearst purchased the NY Journal which began publishing sensational crime and sex stories as he built his newspaper chain rivaling Pulitzers in 1895.

A biweekly magazine published in the United States that focuses on global trade topics.

New-York Gazette, the 1st newspaper printed in New York, was founded by printer William Bradford.

The Post was founded with about US$10,000 from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as a broadsheet.