1828
Bellevue Hospital is over crowded, the New York City government purchased Blackwell’s Island the island for $32,000, July 19, 1828 to make more space to “sick” people.
The Old Corner Bookstore is rented to Timothy Harrington Carter by George Brimmer and first used as a bookstore.
John Griscom stops teaching at Queen’s College
Horace Bushnell becomes editor of the New York Journal of Commerce