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1981 establishments in New York City

  • MTVAt 12:01 a.m. on the 1st of August 1981, the first image to appear on the new cable channel was not a music video but a montage of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
  • Run-DMCIn 1983, three young men from Hollis, Queens formed a group that would change music history. Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels met Jason Mizell at…
  • Bloomberg L.P.Michael Bloomberg walked away from Salomon Brothers in 1981 with a $10 million partnership settlement. He used that money to launch Innovative Market…