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America in the 1880s was rooted in the ruggedness of the frontier yet reaching toward the promises of modernity. Legends like ...
In just a matter of days, the blizzard dumped 40 to 50 inches of snow in parts of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. The heavy and wet snow, capable of exerting significant weight, ...
Library of Congress New York City during the Great Blizzard of 1888. The Great Blizzard of 1888 strikes the East Coast of the United States, devastating cities from the Chesapeake Bay all the way up ...
This caused temperatures to plunge, and the heavy rain that had been falling in New York City turned to snow at 1 a.m. on Monday, March 12. As the Weather Underground reported in 2020, the Blizzard of ...
Blizzard conditions loom in some areas. Pennsylvania under warning, New York braces for heavy snow, high winds. Here's what to expect.
When a major blizzard in 1888 snowed in the city and incapacitated trains, city planners started to look for a new way to help people get around. Their conclusion: Go underground.
Four years later, on Oct. 27, 1904, the New York City subway opened to the public. "That first line was parts of what is the 4/5/6 of today and the 1/2/3 of today. The original subway line went ...
In the end, nearly 400 people died during the Great Blizzard of 1888, including 200 in New York City. Communications, commerce and travel were interrupted for days.
Schools were also closed in major cities, including New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. There have been other historic storms throughout history, like the Great Blizzard of 1888: ...
New York during the Blizzard of 1888. | Library of Congress/GettyImages The winter of 1888 proved deadly in the United States. The Schoolhouse or Children’s Blizzard struck in the middle of the ...