Verizon New York
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Verizon New York, Inc., formerly the New York Telephone Company, was organized in 1896, taking over the New York City operations of the American Bell Telephone Company.
Wires installed above Broadway, 1885
New York and New Jersey Telephone Company building
Exchange locations, 1934
Typical central office at 228 East 56th Street
Bell Telephone Company
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The Bell Telephone Company was an American telecommunications company active from 1877 to 1899. It was the initial corporate entity from which the Bell System originated to build a continental conglom
Verizon New York
…Verizon New York, Inc., formerly the New York Telephone Company (NYTel), was organized in 1896, taking over the New York City operations of the American Bell Telephone Company. The Telephone Company of New York was formed under franchise in 1876. The principals were Charles A. Cheever and Hilborne Roosevelt. Its purpose was…
The master telephone patent (174465), granted March 7, 1876
Gardiner Greene Hubbard, first president and a trustee of the Bell Telephone Company, and father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell
The Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, 1876, brought Bell international attention.
Alexander Graham Bell ceremonially inaugurating the first New York-to-Chicago telephone line in 1892