1950--The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel finally opens. This is the last of four underwater tunnels (one per decade since the Twenties) connecting Manhattan to New Jersey or Long Island.
1950-1956--A New York City baseball team--be it the Yankees, the Dodgers or the Giants--wins the World Series every year.
1952--Lever House, the world's first glass box office building, opens on Park Avenue. A masterpiece.
1952--The Transit Authority is established.
1953--Construction begins on the Cross Bronx Expressway, one of the most expensive ($250 million) and controversial roads ever built. It will be completed thirteen years later and the borough will be forever transformed.
1955--The Third Avenue El is demolished.
1955--The Brooklyn Dodgers finally win a World Series.
1957--Both the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants play their final season as New Yorkers before moving to California in 1958.
1958--Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, considered one of the city's finest post war skyscrapers--with its bronze coating, topaz tinted glass and influential 1/2 acre plaza--opens on Park Avenue.
1959--Ground is broken for Lincoln Center.
1959--Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim opens on Fifth Avenue.
Sources: The Historical Atlas of New York City by Eric Homberger; New York: An Illustrated History by Ric Burns and James Sanders, with Lisa Ades; The Encyclopedia of New York City, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson; Blue Guide New York by Carol von Pressentin Wright, Stuart Miller, and Sharon Seitz; Inside the Apple by Michelle and James Nevius.
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