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THE HIST OR Y OF NE W Y ORK CIT Y  35

2008 US mortgage crisis hits Wall 2013 One World Trade
Street: the Dow Jones slumps 500 Center (formerly the
points, and, after more than 150 Freedom Tower) opens
years, Lehman Brothers merchant
bank goes bankrupt
2014 The National
2009 Michael September 11
Bloomberg is re-elected Museum opens
mayor for a third time
2011 National 2015 The new
September 11 Whitney Museum
Monument of American Art,
opens on designed by architect
tenth anni- Renzo Piano, opens
versary of 9/11 on the High Line
2005 2010 2015 2020
De Blasio
2005 2010 2015 2020
2010 One
2007 New York of the largest 2016 New York tycoon Donald Trump
Giants win snowstorms is elected US president
Superbowl XLII in the city’s
history
Mayor Bill de Blasio
2013 Bill de Blasio
becomes the first
Democratic
mayor since 1993

2012 Hurricane Sandy hits New York,
2009 US Airways causing widespread flooding, damage,
Airbus flight 1549 and power outage across the city
crash-lands in the
Hudson River after a
bird strike. All 155
passengers survive

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