Geneva1964Geneva January The Batavia Police Department moves into its new quarters in the rear of City Hall. Feb 9 The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. Mar 13 Kitty Genovese is murdered in New York City while 38 witnesses do nothing to save her. April Drifter George Whitmore, Jr. is arrested by New York City police and charged with the 1963 murder of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie. Apr 22 The New York World's Fair opens on the Flushing Meadows site of the 1939 fair. Among the attractions is a audio-animatronics robot of Abraham Lincoln, created by the Walt Disney Studios. Jul 11 The estate of Albany socialite Mers. Huibertje (Huybertie) Pruyn Hamlin is sold at auction, brings $15,255. Oct 21 Crime boss Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno is kidnapped on a New York City Street the day he is to testify before a federal grand jury. Nineteen months later he turns up unharmed. Oct 29 Disk jockey Jack Rolland (Murph the Surf) and two accomplices break into New York City's Museum of Natural History and steal the sapphire Star of India. Oct 31 Rolland and his helpers are arrested. The sapphire is later returned. November Murray Schisgal's Luv opens at Broadway's Booth Theater. Nov 9 In an attempt to steal viewers away from Johnny Carson, ABC premieres its Nightlife talk show with Les Crane. Crane will leave the show after the first four months. City Coney Island's Luna Park closes. ** The Verrazano Narrows Suspension Bridge, linking Brooklyn with Staten Island, opens. ** Gordon Bunshaft's 140 Broadway is completed.** Surviving food market chain co-founder Nicola D'Agostino retires, leaving the business to his sons. ** AT&T introduces the picture telephone at the World's Fair. ** Joseph Hazelwood enters the New York Maritime College at Fort Schuyler. ** Richard Eells, adjunct professor at Columbia University's business school, is named director of its program for studies of the modern corporation. ** Mount Sinai Hospital produces the first statistical evidence that asbestos causes tumors. ** Richard Burton's production of Hamlet opens. State Maurice B. Stein buys Camp Echo Lake, near Lake George, from his wife Amy Medine Stein's parents. ** The William Henry Seward House in Auburn is declared a national historic landmark. ** Concert pianist Monica Dailey dies, in her Batavia home. Rochester Racial riots break out, last for two days. 1965 Feb 21 Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, 39, is assassinated in New York City's Audubon Ballroom. Mar 10 Neil Simon's The Odd Couple opens on Broadway. Mar 30 Ben Bagley and Vernon Lusby's The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as een Through the Eyes of Cole Porter, opens at New York's Square East theater. Apr 19 Radio station WINS becomes New York City's first all-news station. Apr 27 Newsman Egbert (Edward) Roscoe Murrow dies of lung cancer in Pawling at the age of 56. Jun 11 Leonard Melfi's Birdbath has its debut at New York Cit''s St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery. Oct 3 President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill, at the base of the Statue of Liberty, abolishing the immigration quota system. Oct 4 Pope Paul VI conducts a mass in Yankee Stadium, and addresses the United Nations. Oct 17 New York World's Fair closes. Nov 6 Composer Edgar Varèse dies in New York City at the age of 81. City An addition is built on the Irving Trust Company building on Wall Street, by Smith, Smith, Haines, Waehler & Lundberg. ** The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, in lower Manhattan, is restored as a shrine church dedicated to former resident of the site St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. ** William Eaton becomes co-founder of the law firm of Eaton, Van Winkle, Greenspoon & Grutman (later Eaton & Van Winkle). ** The city awards its first cable television franchises. ** Controller Abraham D. Beame defeats Paul R. Screvane, William F. Ryan and Paul O'Dwyer to win the Democratic mayoral primary. Running on the Democrat- Civil Service-Fusin ticket, he's defeated by Republican-Liberal-Independent Citizen candidate John V. Lindsay. Conservative author-publisher William F. Buckley places third. ** The Eighth Street Bookshop moves from Eighth and Macdougal streets to 17 Eighth Street. ** Baltimore poet Ogden Nash gives up his New York residence at East 57th Street. ** The musical Man of La Mancha opens. ** New York Times military analyst Hanson Baldwin advocates sending hundreds of thousands of U. S. forces to Vietnam. The paper runs an editorial denouncing his stand. ** New York Telephone general medical director Norman Plummer retires. ** The city passes the Landmarks Preservation Law, restricting changes to historic buildings. State 1900 people in Mount Kisco, Pleasantville and Peekskill turn out to demonstrate in support of the Selma, Alabama, civil rights march. ** Niagara Falls' Adams Power Station is demolished despite efforts to save it as a technology museum. ** Efforts begin to save Olana, the Hudson River villa of artist Frederic E. Church. ** The Historical/Architectural/Landmark Committee is formed to advise the Herkimer-Oneida Counties Comprehensive Planning Program on landmarks for preservation. ** The Millard Fillmore Memorial Association dedicates a replica of the former president's log cabin birthplace, in Fillmore Glen State Park, near Moravia. ** Emily Woodward Rivas, youngest daughter of Genesee Pure Foods Company founder Orator Woodward, dies. Rochester The civil rights organization FIGHT holds its first convention. 1966 Jan 1 35,000 Transportation Workers Union (TWU) members walk off the job. Jan 2 8,000 members of New York City's Social Servicves Employees Union (SSUE) walk off the job. Jan 13 The TWU members return to work, having won a wage increase. The city's fares will go up. Feb 1 New Yor''s social workers return to the job having gained wage increases, and improvements in benefits and work caseload reductions. Feb 8 Jazz bandleader, violinist and bassist Vernon Andrade dies in New York City at the age of 63. Apr 11 Six from La Mama opens at New York City's Martinique Theatre. Leonard Melfi's Birdbath is the critical standout. May 27 Eat the Document, a television documentary features non-musical footage of John Lennon and Bob Dylan together. It airs on New York City educational-TV station WNDT. Aug 4 Broadway choreographer Helen Tamiris Becker dies at the age of 61. Nov 8 Jazz trumpeter Harold "Shorty" Baker dies in New York City at the age of 53. City The demolition of the 1910 Pennsylvania Station is completed. ** The Ambrose Light Tower is erected 25 miles off the mouth of the Hudson River, replacing lightships previously anchored there. ** Adams and Woodbridge's Bishop Manning Memorial Wing is added to Trinity Church. ** The comedy Cactus Flower opens on Broadway. ** The U. S. Navy sells the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the city. ** Photographer Berenice Abbott moves to Maine. ** An oil barge being maneuvered by a tug rams the Spuyten Duyvil Swing Bridge, putting it ou of commission for two weeks. State Painter Frederick Church's home (Olana) is saved. ** Genesee Brewery president John L. Wehle founds the Genesee Country Museum, a recreated village, near Mumford. ** The Hudson River salt line reaches as far north as Poughkeepsie. Rochester The first local kidney transplant is performed at Strong Memorial Hospital. ** Claude Bragdon's New York Central Railroad Station is partially demolished. Past NYNY files through the year 1774 are now on my WWW page: http://home.eznet.net/~dminor David Minor Eagles Byte Historical Research Rochester, New York 716 264-0423 http://home.eznet.net/~dminor