City Hall as viewed from Park Row 

City Hall front facade facing City Hall Park 

As viewed from Park Row 

The Justice statue above the Rotunda 

City Hall Rotunda ceiling 

New York City Hall Plaque, located on Broadway 

New York City Hall plaque, located on the City Hall Park Path 

1811 - View of City Hall, Sept. 1st 1858 

1860 - Rotunda, New York City Hall, 1860 

1860 - Gen. Butler's speech for Horace Greeley in NewYork, 1866, City Hall Square 

1860 - Chamber of the Board of Councilmen, 1868 

1860 - City Hall, Wall Street, Plan of City Hall, 1887 

1898 - The Governor's Room, New York City Hall, as restored in 1895 

1898 - Celebration at the City Hall Park, Park Row & Frankfort Street,1901 

1898 - The City Hall, New York City, 1900 

1903 - City Hall and Broadway buildings, 1903 

1903 - City Hall, County Court House and City Hall Park; City Hall, City Hall Park and Broadway, 1905 

1907 - City Hall and vicinity, 1909 

1907 - Manhattan Cable cars station which ran across the Brooklyn bridge, 1911.   Mullets Monstrosity, City Hall, Park Row and City Hall Park. The structure on the right is the Manhattan station for the cable cars which ran across the Brooklyn Bridge.

1907 - No perimeter around the building in 1913 

1917 - Stairway and rotunda, 1938 

1917 - Stairway and rotunda, 1938 

1917 - N.Y. City Hall Rotunda, 1939 

1881 - Department of Street Cleaning  Sanitary Engineer George Waring who pioneered the separation of sewage and storm runoff waste forms the 1st sanitation department for NYC called the Department of Street Cleaning.

1865 - Abraham Lincoln Lying in State in City Hall's Rotunda  The funeral cortege stopped in NY for 23 hours, long enough for 500,000 people to pass at the rate of 80 people per minute to view Abraham Lincoln Lying in State in City Hall's Rotunda.

1966 - 1966 NYC Transit Workers Strike  The twelve-day strike began on New Year's Day; the last trains rolled at 8:02 am. An injunction to end the strike was issued later that day, under the 1947 Condon-Wadlin Act. On January 2, the union reduced its economic demands, but the TA responded only by getting a judge's order for the arrest of Quill and eight other union leaders. The arrests were set for 1 a.m. on January 4. The strike started January 1, the day of Mayor John Lindsay's inauguration. "It is an act of defiance against 8 million people," Lindsay said at the time. On January 10, 15,000 workers picketed City Hall. Negotiations moved forward through mediators, with movement from both sides. At 1:37 A.M. on January 13, MacMahon announced that the union was recommending settlement. The package, worth over $60 million, included wages increases from $3.18 to $4.14 an hour, an additional paid holiday, increased pension benefits, and other gains. Gains averaged nine percent for the next eight years. The leader and instigator - Transport Workers Union Local 100 Chief Mike Quill , already in ill health at the time of the arrest, died on January 28. And other workers looked at this realized ir kind of works. This strike promoted unionization and was followed by a number of other very big strikes.

1965 - Blackout of November 1965  Blackout of November 1965 when 7 Northeast states lost their power; 800,000 people were stranded on the subway. The blackout affected parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the United States. Over 30 million people and 80,000 square miles were left without electricity for up to 13 hours. In contrast to the wave of looting and other incidents that took place during the 1977 New York City blackout, only five reports of looting were made in New York City after the 1965 blackout. It was said to be the lowest amount of crime on any night in the city's history since records were first kept.

1811 - Justice  City Hall's first sculpture of Justice was commissioned by its architects while the building was under construction. That figure, depicted without a blindfold, was the work of John Dixey, a sculptor trained in London, who received $310 for his work. The first Justice was carved of wood, and adorned the building until it was destroyed in 1858, when fireworks set off to celebrate the laying of the Atlantic cable started a fire on the roof of City Hall. As the roof and cupola burned, so did the statue of Justice, which dramatically crashed through the ceiling of City Hall and into the rotunda.