Theatre built. Harper's New Monthly Magazine begins publication. John Wiley & Sons publisher in business. Population: 550,394. 1851 New-York Daily Times newspaper begins publication. Singer & Co. sewing machine manufacturer and Kiehl's pharmacy in business. 1852 – American Geographical Society headquartered in city. 1853 Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations held. New York Clipper begins publication. Steinway & Sons piano manufacturer in business. 1854 Cholera epidemic kills 2,509. Academy of Music opera house opens. 1855 – Fernando Wood becomes mayor. 1857 June 16: New York City Police Riot. July: Dead Rabbits Riot. American Institute of Architects headquartered in city. 1858 Central Park opens. Saturday Press begins publication. Lehman Brothers in business. First all-star baseball game and first games in which admission is charged in Corona. 1859 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art established. Weekly Anglo-African begins publication. 1860 New York World newspaper begins publication. Population: 813,669. 1861 G. Schirmer Inc. music publisher in business. 1863 New York Draft Riots Over 100 are killed. The film Gangs of New York takes place during this time. Manhattan College incorporated. Great American Tea Company in business. 1865 Metropolitan Fire Department established. President Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession stops for a day, and Lincoln lies in state at at City Hall The Nation begins publication. Roman Catholics constitute nearly half of the city's population due to heavy Irish immigration. Catholic schools educate approximately 18% of the city's 100,000 school-aged children. 1866 Cedar Tavern and A.A. Vantine (shop) in business. Steinway Hall built. Cholera epidemic kills "only" 1,137, its spread having been limited by the efforts of the new Metropolitan Board of Health, and enforcement of sanitation laws. 1867 – The first elevated transportation line was constructed by the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway Company along Greenwich Street and Ninth Avenue. 1868 – Pike's Opera House opens. 1870s 1870 Hunter College and Hunter College High School established. Schwarz Toy Bazaar in business. Lotos Club founded. 1871 July: Orange Riot. July 30: A boiler explosion aboard the Westfield II Staten Island Ferry kills 125 among hundreds of Manhattanites making a weekend trip to the beaches. Tweed scandal. Grand Central Depot opens. Washington Square Park redesigned. Salmagundi Club founded. 1872 New York City exactly hits 1 million people. May: Victoria Claflin Woodhull nominated by the Equal Rights Party to become the first woman Presidential candidate. Metropolitan Museum of Art opens. Bloomingdale's shop and