Forty thousand men are idle as a result of a disastrous general strike of all building trades. The towns of Kingsbridge, Morrisania and West Farms are added to New York, extending the city limits to Yonkers. The prison ship martyrs' remains are reburied at Fort Greene, Washington Park, Brooklyn. Barnum's Great Roman Hippodrome opens at Twenty-seventh Street and Madison Avenue. The first through train runs from New York to San Francisco.
Central Park is completed.
The first high-wheeled bicycle appears in New York. The first tenement building with a central court is built. The New York Symphony Society is organized. The New York Museum of Natural History is opened. The first directory of telephones in New York is issued.