John Vliet Lindsay is born in New York City to George N. and Eleanor Vliet Lindsay of Manhattan.... read more
John Lindsay runs for Congress as a liberal Republican representing the 17th District of New York, which includes Greenwich Village, Lower... read more
Running in a three-way race, Lindsay’s campaign is energized by young volunteers and by the future mayor’s charismatic performance on... read more
Mayor Lindsay is sworn in on New Year’s Day, only hours after New York’s transit workers begin a strike that paralyzes the city for 12... read more
In a referendum on the November ballot, the Citizen Complaint Review Board is overturned by a margin of 63% to 37%, a major defeat for Lindsay. The... read more
The eight-day strike by the United Sanitation Men’s Association begins on February 2, 1968, resulting in mounds of garbage lining the city... read more
John Lindsay co-chairs an 11-member national panel of public officials and community leaders, with Illinois governor Otto Kerner Jr. The... read more
Upon learning of the assassination of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., Mayor Lindsay helps to keep the peace by going twice to... read more
Columbia students, mostly members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Students Afro-American Society, occupy five of the... read more
Mayor Lindsay’s plan for decentralizing New York’s public schools ignites a conflict in Brooklyn’s Ocean Hill–Brownsville.... read more
Fifteen inches of snow fall on New York on February 8. Sanitation trucks promptly remove the snow in Manhattan south of 96th Street, but some... read more
On this national day of protest against the war in Indochina, Mayor Lindsay addresses gatherings at City Hall Plaza, Brooklyn Borough Park, a union... read more
The mayor is re-elected with 41.1% of the vote in another three-way race. He runs against Democrat Mario Procaccino, who receives 33.8% of the vote... read more
John Lindsay gives the Charter Day address at the University of California’s Berkeley campus. The event traditionally involved the receipt of... read more
In response to a New York Times series on police corruption, Mayor Lindsay appoints a panel headed by Wall Street attorney Whitman Knapp. The panel... read more
The Board of Estimate passes a motion to begin work on three 24-story apartment buildings to house 2,000 low-income and elderly citizens in Forest... read more
Mayor Lindsay declares that he is running for president as a Democrat, campaigning on his opposition to the war in Vietnam among other issues.... read more
John Lindsay, surrounded by commissioners and aides, announces that he will not run for a third term as mayor. “Eight years is not enough to... read more
John Lindsay returns to politics in 1980, running in a Senate primary for the Democratic Party’s nomination. His opponents are Bess Myerson,... read more
John Lindsay dies in Hilton Head, South Carolina, of complications of pneumonia and Parkinson’s disease after a long period of ill health.... read more
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