Actor singer-dancer Sammy Davis Jr. is born in New York City. Dec 18 A fire destroys Batavia's Pioneer Sheds and 85 automobiles. City The Subtreasury Building on Wall Street becomes Federal Hall National Monument, to commemorate the spot where Washington took his oath of office as president. The old Madison Square Garden is torn down. The Ritz apartment building is completed.
Construction begins on the Tudor City apartment complex.
State senator James John Walker defeats incumbent mayor John F. Hylan in a Democratic primary and goes on to defeat Republican Frank D. Waterman and Socialist Norman Thomas. Ernest Jarvis, future contractor of Loews movie palaces, and a cousin of Senator Jacob Javits, camps out in front of the dean's office at Columbia University until he is accepted into its engineering school. Richard F. Walsh is elected president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local No. 4, in Brooklyn. B. degree from Columbia. The New York World journalist Alexander Cameron Sedgwick joins The New York Times to cover local news.