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96-547: A prolific radio, film and television writer for over 30 years, Rolfe described the craft as requiring "Stubbornness, masochism and perhaps some inherited insensitivity to pain. Writing is the most exasperating, most tormenting, loneliest occupation in the world". Rolfe was born Samuel Harris Rosenbaum on February 18, 1924 in New York City . He was the first of Max and Sylvia (née Kshonsky) Rosenbaum's two children. Both of Rolfe's parents were Russian immigrants. His father worked at

192-429: A Jonathan Winters variety hour. In 1981 Rolfe wrote Killjoy for Lorimar Productions . The CBS television mystery centered around a love triangle that perhaps included a missing person who didn't exist. The "finely dovetailed" script earned Rolfe a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award . In 1972 Rolfe created The Delphi Bureau starring Laurence Luckinbill . The drama series which ran for one season related

288-490: A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star vehicle for Wendell Corey . The NBC network series was a medical drama about how psychiatric treatment could aid law-enforcement. Rolfe co-wrote the lyrics to the show's second season theme song "Theme from The Eleventh Hour" with Harry Sukman . The score was written by Irving Elman. Rolfe co-created the highly regarded television western series Have Gun – Will Travel for CBS from 1957 through 1963 with Herb Meadow . Rolfe had approached CBS with

384-513: A bookbinding company, while his mother worked as a seamstress. Rolfe served in the US Army during World War II. After being discharged in 1945 he studied engineering, then advertising under the GI Bill . He worked as a railroad labourer and a dance instructor. In a 2005 New York Times article, Rolfe's wife Hilda Newman-Rolfe related how Rolfe started his career: "I met my husband, Sam Rolfe, in 1952. He

480-603: A cameo appearance in the first season, seventh U.N.C.L.E. episode, The Giuoco Piano Affair which aired on November 10, 1964, where he appeared as "Texan" in the party-scene at Gervaise Ravel's (portrayed by Anne Francis ) apartment. Rolfe's attention to detail included specifying special props necessary to create the show's illusion of world spycraft, including the famous "Man From U.N.C.L.E. gun". Rolfe said "I wanted one gun capable of shooting single shots or rapid-fire automatic shots, with sound or silently. I also wanted sleep inducing darts, explosive bullets and just bullets, and

576-612: A decade between Irish immigrants and Black people for work. Rioters burned the Colored Orphan Asylum to the ground. At least 120 people were killed. Eleven Black men were lynched over five days, and the riots forced hundreds of Blacks to flee. The Black population in Manhattan fell below 10,000 by 1865. The White working class had established dominance. It was one of the worst incidents of civil unrest in American history . In 1886,

672-549: A gun that could convert to a long-range rifle. I wanted everything in the U.N.C.L.E. gun, and the one thing I had forgot, I had put in the Thrush gun - an infra-red light, so the Thrush people could shoot at night". The guns themselves actually received 500 fan letters a week, many simply addressed to "The Gun". Rolfe left the show at the end of its first season. After his departure the show changed direction and exchanged its subtle, tongue-in-cheek humour for more overt gags, culminating in

768-713: A packaging company for new programs in 1952. Talent Associates produced some of the classic series of the Golden Age of Television , such as the Wally Cox comedy Mister Peepers , the anthology teleplay series The Goodyear Television Playhouse / The Philco Television Playhouse and Armstrong Circle Theatre . In 1953-54, Talent Associates produced Jamie starring a young Brandon deWilde , fresh off his success in George Stevens ' Shane (1953), for ABC . De Wilde together with veteran character actor Ernest Truex , told

864-518: A producer and screenwriter right up until his death. He wrote scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Vengeance Factor " and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Vortex ". His last major project was based on Ken Follett’s On Wings of Eagles . The five-hour television mini-series portrayed former presidential candidate Ross Perot’s experiences in Iran. The mini-series

960-524: A result of Sandy, and the economic losses in New York City were estimated to be roughly $ 19 billion. The disaster spawned long-term efforts towards infrastructural projects to counter climate change and rising seas, with $ 15 billion in federal funding received through 2022 towards those resiliency efforts. In March 2020, the first case of COVID-19 in the city was confirmed. With its population density and its extensive exposure to global travelers,

1056-431: A show idea featuring a contemporary New York City private eye who perused out of town newspapers for leads for work. The network said they were more interested in a Western, so Rolfe changed both the era and the locale of the proposed show. Rolfe's primary character was "Paladin", a professional gunfighter named after one of Charlemagne's knights and played by Richard Boone . Not a typical television western cowboy, Paladin

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1152-476: A speech denying the request, which was paraphrased on the front page of the New York Daily News as "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD." The Municipal Assistance Corporation was formed and granted oversight authority over the city's finances. While a resurgence in the financial industry greatly improved the city's economic health in the 1980s, New York's crime rate continued to increase through that decade and into

1248-552: A vice-president at their Talent Associates-Paramount, Ltd. production company. Three weeks later, Rolfe quit saying he felt better working alone and that he should resign "before I involved myself too deeply". Rolfe wrote the screenplay for the 1953 episode "Let the Cards Decide", based on a story by Louis L’Amour. Rolfe wrote the 1958 "The Last Comanchero" episode starring Edd Byrnes . Co-written by Rolfe, Lou Morheim and Barney Slater in 1959, this Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre episode

1344-606: Is credited to Rolfe's pseudonym "Sam Harris" for Taft Entertainment in association with Castle Combe Productions. The four-hour mini-series was filmed and was directed by David Hemmings and was scheduled for broadcast in May 1985. It was later shown in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and other countries where the novel had been popular. Rolfe then developed other crime drama tv shows, creating, writing and producing Rosetti And Ryan , Delvecchio and Kaz . Rolfe continued to work as

1440-461: Is one of the world's most populous megacities . The city and its metropolitan area are the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States . As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. In 2021, the city was home to nearly 3.1 million residents born outside the U.S., the largest foreign-born population of any city in

1536-591: The American South . During construction in Foley Square in the 1990s, the African Burying Ground was discovered; the cemetery included 10,000 to 20,000 graves of colonial-era Africans, some enslaved and some free. The 1735 trial and acquittal in Manhattan of John Peter Zenger , who had been accused of seditious libel after criticizing colonial governor William Cosby , helped to establish freedom of

1632-837: The Atlantic port to the agricultural markets and commodities of the North American interior via the Hudson River and the Great Lakes . Local politics became dominated by Tammany Hall , a political machine supported by Irish and German immigrants . In 1831, New York University was founded. Several prominent American literary figures lived in New York during the 1830s and 1840s, including William Cullen Bryant , Washington Irving , Herman Melville , Rufus Wilmot Griswold , John Keese , Nathaniel Parker Willis , and Edgar Allan Poe . Members of

1728-664: The Bill of Rights there. The Supreme Court held its first organizational sessions in New York in 1790. In 1790, for the first time, New York City surpassed Philadelphia as the nation's largest city. At the end of 1790, the national capital was moved to Philadelphia . During the 19th century, New York City's population grew from 60,000 to 3.43 million. Under New York State's gradual emancipation act of 1799, children of slave mothers were to be eventually liberated but to be held in indentured servitude until their mid-to-late twenties. Together with slaves freed by their masters after

1824-697: The Caribbean . The attempt at a peaceful solution to the war took place at the Conference House on Staten Island between American delegates, including Benjamin Franklin , and British general Lord Howe on September 11, 1776. Shortly after the British occupation began, the Great Fire of New York destroyed nearly 500 buildings, about a quarter of the structures in the city, including Trinity Church . In January 1785,

1920-857: The Hudson River , which he named Río de San Antonio ('Saint Anthony's River'). In 1609, the English explorer Henry Hudson rediscovered New York Harbor while searching for the Northwest Passage to the Orient for the Dutch East India Company . He sailed up what the Dutch called North River (now the Hudson River), named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange . Hudson claimed

2016-687: The Lower Hudson Valley . The first documented visit into New York Harbor by a European was in 1524 by explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano . He claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême (New Angoulême ). A Spanish expedition, led by the Portuguese captain Estêvão Gomes sailing for Emperor Charles V , arrived in New York Harbor in January 1525 and charted the mouth of

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2112-699: The New York City Fire Department and 71 law enforcement officers. The area was rebuilt with a new World Trade Center , the National September 11 Memorial and Museum , and other new buildings and infrastructure, including the World Trade Center Transportation Hub , the city's third-largest hub. The new One World Trade Center is the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere and the seventh-tallest building in

2208-503: The Statue of Liberty , a gift from France , was dedicated in New York Harbor. The statue welcomed 14 million immigrants as they came to the U.S. via Ellis Island by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is a symbol of the United States and American ideals of liberty and peace. In 1898, the City of New York was formed with the consolidation of Brooklyn (until then a separate city),

2304-683: The Stonewall riots were a series of violent protests by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village . They are widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights . Wayne R. Dynes , author of the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality , wrote that drag queens were

2400-586: The steamship General Slocum caught fire in the East River , killing 1,021 people. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire , the city's worst industrial disaster, killed 146 garment workers and spurred the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and major improvements in factory safety standards. New York's non-White population was 36,620 in 1890. New York City

2496-463: The waterfronts since Dutch colonial times; reclamation is most prominent in Lower Manhattan, with developments such as Battery Park City in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the natural relief in topography has been evened out, especially in Manhattan. Talent Associates Talent Associates, Ltd. (also known as Talent Associates-Paramount, Ltd. and Talent Associates-Norton Simon, Inc. ),

2592-682: The 1960's Cincinnati's Taft Broadcasting Company began buying broadcast production companies such as Hanna-Barbera , Quinn Martin Productions and Sunn Classics and renamed itself the Taft Entertainment Company. In 1980, Sy Fischer, president and CEO hired a number of noted television writers and producers, including Rolfe, Sam Denoff, producer-writer of The Dick Van Dyke Show , Leigh Vance, writer-producer of Hart to Hart , and Fred Silverman, former chief of CBS. The Key to Rebecca , based on Ken Follett 's best-selling suspense novel

2688-437: The 1960s and 1970s. A few key projects to note: In 1958, Susskind became the host of Open End , one of the first major TV talk shows . The title refers to the irregular run time - guests would talk until they had nothing left to say. Open End ended in 1966, but was replaced by the fixed length The David Susskind Show . By 1963, Susskind had a reputation as a maverick, one of the last producers willing to stand up to

2784-483: The 1974 film, and McMillan & Wife , the 1971-1977 TV series. The company also ventured into game shows, packaging the original version of Supermarket Sweep , and its successor The Honeymoon Race ; as well as The Generation Gap ; and an unsold pilot, King of the Hill . Talent Associates also had a short-lived record division, known as TA Records, which released a total of only 4 LP titles. The label's product

2880-525: The 19th century, the city was transformed by both commercial and residential development relating to its status as a national and international trading center , as well as by European immigration, respectively. The city adopted the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 , which expanded the city street grid to encompass almost all of Manhattan. The 1825 completion of the Erie Canal through central New York connected

2976-676: The Continental Army at the Battle of Fort Washington in November 1776 eliminated the last American stronghold in Manhattan, causing George Washington and his forces to retreat across the Hudson River to New Jersey , pursued by British forces. After the battle, in which the Americans were defeated, the British made the city their military and political base of operations in North America. The city

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3072-558: The County of New York (which then included parts of the Bronx), the County of Richmond, and the western portion of the County of Queens. The opening of the New York City Subway in 1904, first built as separate private systems, helped bind the new city together. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the city became a world center for industry, commerce, and communication. In 1904,

3168-618: The Duke of York (the future King James II and VII). The duke gave part of the colony to proprietors George Carteret and John Berkeley . On August 24, 1673, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War , Anthony Colve of the Dutch navy seized New York at the behest of Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest and rechristened it "New Orange" after William III , the Prince of Orange . The Dutch soon returned

3264-683: The Dutch West India Company had operated as a monopoly in New Netherland, on authority granted by the Dutch States General . In 1639–1640, in an effort to bolster economic growth, the Dutch West India Company relinquished its monopoly over the fur trade, leading to growth in the production and trade of food, timber, tobacco, and slaves (particularly with the Dutch West Indies ). In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant began his tenure as

3360-405: The New York metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan economy in the world , with a gross metropolitan product of over US$ 2.16 trillion. If the New York metropolitan area were its own country , it would have the tenth-largest economy in the world . Despite having a 24/7 rapid transit system , New York also leads the world in urban automobile traffic congestion . The city is home to

3456-699: The Revolutionary War and escaped slaves, a significant free-Black population gradually developed in Manhattan. The New York Manumission Society worked for abolition and established the African Free School to educate Black children. It was not until 1827 that slavery was completely abolished in the state . Free Blacks struggled with discrimination and interracial abolitionist activism continued. New York City's population jumped from 123,706 in 1820 (10,886 of whom were Black and of which 518 were enslaved) to 312,710 by 1840 (16,358 of whom were Black). Also in

3552-483: The Sky , with a nice, surprising mixture of compassion and cynicism, keeps insisting that (the characters) all matter, red and white... Thanks to scenarist Sam Rolfe (or author Will Henry), the actors sound like real people". Most of Rolfe's career was spent in television. Rolfe flourished as a freelance writer, producer and showrunner over a career that lasted four decades. In 1963 David Susskind and Dan Melnick hired Rolfe as

3648-546: The TV series Mission: Impossible and Mannix , Sam Peckinpah who would later direct the film The Wild Bunch and Irving Wallace , author of the books The Agony and the Ecstasy and The Man also wrote for the show. Producer Norman Felton had been developing a television spy series named Solo with Ian Fleming , the creator of James Bond . Fleming named the proposed series' lead character "Napoleon Solo" but hadn't told Felton

3744-631: The Western and legal show genres, following the exploits of two frontier lawyers who provided legal defense to their accused clients. The show was not a success. CBS had bought it on the strength of Rolfe's pilot, but after seeing a few additional episodes and scripts, network officials were convinced that the show would fail before it caught on. CBS decided in September to replace Dundee and the Culhane in December with

3840-454: The adventures of government agent Glenn Garth Gregory who relied on his photographic memory to solve crimes. The show was broadcast on ABC as one of three elements of The Men , a wheel series shown as part of its 1972-73 schedule . After the cancellation of Dundee and the Culhane , Rolfe returned to the spy genre, creating and producing an ABC network television series adaptation of Donald Hamilton ’s Matt Helm . The title character

3936-615: The arts and fashion , and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations , international diplomacy . With an estimated population in 2023 of 8,258,035 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km ), the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles , the nation's second-most populous city. With more than 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York City

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4032-636: The assembly of the Congress of the Confederation made New York City the national capital. New York was the last capital of the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation and the first capital under the Constitution of the United States . As the U.S. capital, New York City hosted the inauguration of the first President, George Washington , and the first Congress , at Federal Hall on Wall Street . Congress drafted

4128-543: The beginning of the 1990s. By the mid-1990s, crime rates started to drop dramatically due to revised police strategies, improving economic opportunities, gentrification , and new residents, both American transplants and new immigrants from Asia and Latin America. New York City's population exceeded 8 million for the first time in the 2000 United States census ; further records were set in 2010 , and 2020 U.S. censuses. Important new sectors, such as Silicon Alley , emerged in

4224-583: The business elite lobbied for the establishment of Central Park , which in 1857 became the first landscaped park in an American city. The Great Irish Famine brought a large influx of Irish immigrants, of whom more than 200,000 were living in New York by 1860, representing over a quarter of the city's population. Extensive immigration from the German provinces meant that Germans comprised another 25% of New York's population by 1860. Democratic Party candidates were consistently elected to local office, increasing

4320-476: The character name had already been used in the script of the upcoming Goldfinger film. Cubby Broccoli , producer of the Bond films, forbade Fleming to continue working on Felton's project. Felton then approached Rolfe, who was at that time working on The Eleventh Hour . Felton asked Rolfe to create a framework for the series. Rolfe's 80 page prospectus for the show included the show name The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ,

4416-605: The city from New Jersey. The East River—a tidal strait —flows from Long Island Sound and separates the Bronx and Manhattan from Long Island. The Harlem River , another tidal strait between the East and Hudson rivers, separates most of Manhattan from the Bronx. The Bronx River , which flows through the Bronx and Westchester County , is the only entirely freshwater river in the city. The city's land has been altered substantially by human intervention, with considerable land reclamation along

4512-439: The city rapidly replaced Wuhan , China as the global epicenter of the pandemic during the early phase, straining the city's healthcare infrastructure. Through March 2023, New York City recorded more than 80,000 deaths from COVID-19-related complications. New York City is situated in the northeastern United States , in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston . Its location at

4608-613: The city's economy. The advent of Y2K was celebrated with fanfare in Times Square . New York City suffered the bulk of the economic damage and largest loss of human life in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks . Two of the four airliners hijacked that day were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, resulting in the collapse of both buildings and the deaths of 2,753 people, including 343 first responders from

4704-615: The city's ties to the South and its dominant party. In 1861, Mayor Fernando Wood called on the aldermen to declare independence from Albany and the United States after the South seceded, but his proposal was not acted on. Anger at new military conscription laws during the American Civil War (1861–1865), which spared wealthier men who could afford to hire a substitute, led to the Draft Riots of 1863 , whose most visible participants were ethnic Irish working class. The draft riots deteriorated into attacks on New York's elite, followed by attacks on Black New Yorkers after fierce competition for

4800-447: The crew performing a key test run of the new 200-ton Boeing B-52 Stratofortress . In 1956 Rolfe wrote the script for Universal Pictures ' Western , Pillars of the Sky from a novel by Will Henry. Rolfe's script was sympathetic to Native Americans, who were often portrayed as one-dimensional villains. A New York Times review said "It's a pleasure to watch a modest, soldier vs. Indian picture shape into something respectable... Pillars of

4896-417: The development of large housing tracts in eastern Queens and Nassau County , with Wall Street leading America's place as the world's dominant economic power. The United Nations headquarters was completed in 1952, solidifying New York's global geopolitical influence, and the rise of abstract expressionism in the city precipitated New York's displacement of Paris as the center of the art world. In 1969,

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4992-567: The drama take over. And you could talk forever about it, but unless you walk in with that instinct, you're not going to get it. And I think that some of the people that followed me didn't have an instinct for it. So they got silly with it... They never sat down, they didn't really grasp the drama - that you had to have the dramatic spine. Rolfe created and produced Dundee and the Culhane , an American Western television drama series starring John Mills and Sean Garrison that aired on CBS from September 6 to December 13, 1967 . The show combined

5088-418: The early 18th century, New York grew in importance as a trading port while as a part of the colony of New York . It became a center of slavery , with 42% of households enslaving Africans by 1730. Most were domestic slaves ; others were hired out as labor. Slavery became integrally tied to New York's economy through the labor of slaves throughout the port, and the banking and shipping industries trading with

5184-404: The ever more powerful TV networks; his East Side/West Side , a hard-hitting dramatic series starring George C. Scott , began on CBS in 1963 and won fairly high critical praise. In an era when race relations was a volatile subject in the United States, East Side/West Side featured Cicely Tyson in one of the first major regular roles for an African-American actress in a primetime drama, and

5280-461: The former territory of New Netherland , including the city of New Amsterdam , when the Kingdom of England seized it from Dutch control. In the pre-Columbian era , the area of present-day New York City was inhabited by Algonquians , including the Lenape . Their homeland, known as Lenapehoking , included the present-day areas of Staten Island , Manhattan , the Bronx , the western portion of Long Island (including Brooklyn and Queens ), and

5376-436: The high-camp third season. Rolfe did not approve of the change in direction and felt the show lost its way after the first season. In an interview given shortly before his death he commented: I've always felt U.N.C.L.E. was a show that needed a particular kind of a mind to direct it. You needed somebody that could do drama and then also lay humor into it but could sense when the humor had to be stopped and when you had to make

5472-410: The ice (and its subsequent retreat) contributed to the separation of what is now Long Island and Staten Island. That action left bedrock at a relatively shallow depth, providing a solid foundation for most of Manhattan's skyscrapers. The Hudson River flows through the Hudson Valley into New York Bay . Between New York City and Troy, New York , the river is an estuary . The Hudson River separates

5568-448: The island to England under the Treaty of Westminster of November 1674. Several intertribal wars among the Native Americans and epidemics brought on by contact with the Europeans caused sizeable population losses for the Lenape between 1660 and 1670. By 1700, the Lenape population had diminished to 200. New York experienced several yellow fever epidemics in the 18th century, losing ten percent of its population in 1702 alone. In

5664-599: The last Director-General of New Netherland. During his tenure, the population of New Netherland grew from 2,000 to 8,000. Stuyvesant has been credited with improving law and order; however, he earned a reputation as a despotic leader. He instituted regulations on liquor sales, attempted to assert control over the Dutch Reformed Church , and blocked other religious groups from establishing houses of worship. In 1664, unable to summon any significant resistance, Stuyvesant surrendered New Amsterdam to English troops, led by Colonel Richard Nicolls , without bloodshed. The terms of

5760-545: The local population as a representative of the Dutch colonists. A permanent European presence near New York Harbor was established in 1624, making New York the 12th-oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States , with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island . In 1625, construction was started on a citadel and Fort Amsterdam , later called Nieuw Amsterdam (New Amsterdam), on present-day Manhattan Island. The colony of New Amsterdam extended from

5856-419: The most populous urbanized area in the world in the early 1920s, overtaking London . The metropolitan area surpassed 10 million in the early 1930s, becoming the first megacity . The Great Depression saw the election of reformer Fiorello La Guardia as mayor and the fall of Tammany Hall after eighty years of political dominance. Returning World War II veterans created a post-war economic boom and

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5952-437: The mouth of the Hudson River , which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean , has helped the city grow in significance as a trading port. Most of the city is built on the three islands of Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island. During the Wisconsin glaciation , 75,000 to 11,000 years ago, the New York City area was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet . The erosive forward movement of

6048-445: The only " transgender folks around" during the June 1969 Stonewall riots. The transgender community in New York City played a significant role in fighting for LGBT equality. In the 1970s, job losses due to industrial restructuring caused New York City to suffer from economic problems and rising crime rates. Growing fiscal deficits in 1975 led the city to appeal to the federal government for financial aid; President Gerald Ford gave

6144-486: The original recording of " One Tin Soldier " in 1970. Another TA Records R&B group Five Flights Up , had a Billboard Top 40 single with "Do What You Wanna Do" which peaked at #36 in the fall of 1970. From 1961 to 1965, Paramount Pictures owned a 50% stake in Talent Associates. In August 1968, the company was acquired by industrialist Norton Simon , becoming known as Talent Associates-Norton Simon, Inc. until 1974, when Susskind and Gilbert bought it back. In 1977,

6240-439: The pilot episode "The Vulcan Affair", created the backstory for the U.N.C.L.E. organization including the acronym and 30 story ideas. Rolfe's work so impressed Fleming that he tried to buy some of them to use in his Bond books. Rolfe produced the first season of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and did much of the writing. Robert Vaughn , who played Napoleon Solo in the series, called Rolfe "the real man from U.N.C.L.E.". Rolfe made

6336-429: The press in North America . In 1754, Columbia University was founded. The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in October 1765, as the Sons of Liberty organization emerged in the city and skirmished over the next ten years with British troops stationed there. The Battle of Long Island , the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War , was fought in August 1776 within modern-day Brooklyn. A British rout of

6432-428: The property until her death in 2022. The home and lot was purchased in 2023 for $ 12.5 million by Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger who then demolished the house and flattened the lot. Rolfe died of a heart attack in 1993, aged 69, after collapsing while playing tennis. New York City New York , often called New York City or NYC , is the most populous city in the United States , located at

6528-402: The region for the Dutch East India Company. In 1614, the area between Cape Cod and Delaware Bay was claimed by the Netherlands and called Nieuw-Nederland (' New Netherland '). The first non–Native American inhabitant of what became New York City was Juan Rodriguez , a merchant from Santo Domingo who arrived in Manhattan during the winter of 1613–14, trapping for pelts and trading with

6624-409: The series dealt a few times with issues facing African-Americans, as well as other urban issues such as drug addiction and abortion , leading to some affiliates in Southern states not clearing the program. East Side/West Side also had trouble attracting advertisers. The drama was canceled by CBS after only one season, due also in large part with CBS programming head James Aubrey 's discomfort with

6720-458: The socially conscious subject matter, as well as Aubrey's conflicts with Scott and Susskind over the direction of the series. David Susskind appears as himself in one episode, hosting a television discussion. While East Side/West Side was in production, two young writers, Mel Brooks and Buck Henry , were working at Talent Associates in New York City on the script for a new pilot , which became an enduring legacy of Talent Associates. This

6816-521: The southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors . The city comprises five boroughs , each coextensive with a respective county . The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area , the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. by both population and urban area . New York is a global center of finance and commerce , culture , technology , entertainment and media , academics and scientific output ,

6912-596: The southern tip of Manhattan to modern-day Wall Street , where a 12-foot (3.7 m) wooden stockade was built in 1653 to protect against Native American and English raids. In 1626, the Dutch colonial Director-General Peter Minuit , as charged by the Dutch West India Company , purchased the island of Manhattan from the Canarsie , a small Lenape band, for "the value of 60 guilders " (about $ 900 in 2018). A frequently told but disproved legend claims that Manhattan

7008-502: The story of aging Grandpa McHummer striking a bond with young Jamie, his recently orphaned grandson. Talent Associates was structured like a small, family-run firm; Susskind deliberately chose young and inexperienced associates, many of them women, who would learn on the job. Susskind began to branch out, putting together Broadway shows ("Mr. Lincoln") and feature films ( A Raisin in the Sun ). Talent Associates won more than 20 Emmy awards in

7104-545: The surrender permitted Dutch residents to remain in the colony and allowed for religious freedom. In 1667, during negotiations leading to the Treaty of Breda after the Second Anglo-Dutch War , the victorious Dutch decided to keep the nascent plantation colony of what is now Suriname , which they had gained from the English, and in return the English kept New Amsterdam. The settlement was promptly renamed "New York" after

7200-578: The world by pinnacle height, with its spire reaching a symbolic 1,776 feet (541.3 m), a reference to the year of U.S. independence . The Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan began on September 17, 2011, receiving global attention and popularizing the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality worldwide. New York City

7296-483: The world's two largest stock exchanges by market capitalization of their listed companies: the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq . New York City is an established safe haven for global investors. As of 2023 , New York City is the most expensive city in the world for expatriates and has by a wide margin the highest U.S. city residential rents; and Fifth Avenue is the most expensive shopping street in

7392-521: The world. New York City traces its origins to Fort Amsterdam and a trading post founded on Manhattan Island by Dutch colonists around 1624. The settlement was named New Amsterdam in 1626 and was chartered as a city in 1653. The city came under English control in 1664 and was temporarily renamed New York after King Charles II granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York , before being permanently renamed New York in November 1674. New York City

7488-402: The world. New York City is home by a significant margin to the highest number of billionaires , individuals of ultra-high net worth (greater than US$ 30 million), and millionaires of any city in the world. In 1664, New York was named in honor of the Duke of York (later King James II of England ). James's elder brother, King Charles II , appointed the Duke as proprietor of

7584-552: Was heavily affected by Hurricane Sandy in late October 2012. Sandy's impacts included flooding that led to the days-long shutdown of the subway system and flooding of all East River subway tunnels and of all road tunnels entering Manhattan except the Lincoln Tunnel . The New York Stock Exchange closed for two days due to weather for the first time since the Great Blizzard of 1888 . At least 43 people died in New York City as

7680-604: Was 27 years old as well), the Western film was a "five-character chamber play" directed by Anthony Mann and starred James Stewart . In his 1971 essay The Evolution of the Western , film critic André Bazin named the film The Naked Spur "the finest of all Westerns". In 1997, the film was inducted into the National Film Registry as a Western film "with tense psychological complexity through strong, clear story-telling by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom". Rolfe's screenplay

7776-525: Was a haven for Loyalist refugees and escaped slaves who joined the British lines for freedom promised by the Crown , with as many as 10,000 escaped slaves crowded into the city during the British occupation, the largest such community on the continent. When the British forces evacuated New York at the close of the war in 1783, they transported thousands of freedmen for resettlement in Nova Scotia , England, and

7872-525: Was a prime destination in the early 20th century for Blacks during the Great Migration from the American South, and by 1916, New York City had the largest urban African diaspora in North America. The Harlem Renaissance of literary and cultural life flourished during the era of Prohibition . The larger economic boom generated construction of skyscrapers competing in height. New York City became

7968-534: Was a production company headed by David Susskind , later joined by Daniel Melnick , Leonard Stern and Ron Gilbert. In the years after World War II, Susskind was a talent agent for Century Artists , ultimately ending up in the powerhouse Music Corporation of America 's fairly newly minted television program department, managing Dinah Shore , Jerry Lewis , and others. He then went to New York and formed Talent Associates, representing creators of material rather than performers. Susskind converted Talent Associates into

8064-532: Was a struggling writer, but right after we met he sold a screenplay called The Naked Spur for $ 25,000 (equivalent to $ 286,842 in 2023). That was his big break... After we were married, he began to write and produce television shows. He created 13 in all, including Have Gun - Will Travel , The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and The Manhunter ". In 1952 Rolfe shared a two-office bungalow owned by Universal Studios in West Los Angeles with author Ray Bradbury . Rolfe

8160-525: Was almost an anti-hero. Set in the 1870s, Paladin lived in San Francisco's Hotel Carlton and charged a $ 1,000 (or higher) fee for his services. If he chose to help someone who couldn't afford his fee, he would work for free. Have Gun - Will Travel was the third most watched television program in America during the show's first three years. Rolfe co-wrote the show's theme song "The Ballad of Paladin" with Johnny Western and show star Richard Boone . The song

8256-403: Was an unsold pilot for a proposed series about the exploits of Johnny Nighthawk, the adventurous owner and pilot of a one-plane airline. Using a script outline created by Rolfe in 1961, Rod Serling wrote A Quality of Mercy , the 80th episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone . Rolfe was a contract writer for CBS but left in 1962 to produce The Eleventh Hour ,

8352-556: Was chosen one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time by the Western Writers of America . Rolfe and Meadow hired a number of new writers during the show's 6 year run, many of whom would later create outstanding television, film and books. Among them: Gene Roddenberry , creator and writer of the original Star Trek series, wrote 23 episodes of Have Gun - Will Travel and won a Writer’s Guild award for one of them, Bruce Geller , creator of

8448-461: Was distributed through Bell Records . The soft rock duo Seals and Crofts were signed to the label in 1969. After releasing two albums which received little attention the group moved to Warner Bros. Records in 1971 where they recorded a string of hit records during the 1970s. A Canadian folk group called The Original Caste reached #34 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on TA Records with

8544-454: Was later adapted as a television show. In 1951 Rolfe's script Time To Kill was broadcast on Hollywood Star Playhouse . The drama starred Wendell Corey as a would-be bus rider who discovers townspeople have violent plans for him as he waits four hours for the next bus. In 1953 Rolfe was 27 years old when he wrote his first screenplay The Naked Spur . The film earned him a 1954 Oscar nomination. Co-written with Harold Jack Bloom (who

8640-500: Was played by Anthony Franciosa . The show aired from September 20, 1975 to January 3, 1976. In 1974, Rolfe wrote the pilot episode script for Manhunter , a Quinn Martin Productions film directed by Walter Grauman starring Rick Dalton , Stefanie Powers , Gary Lockwood and James Olson . Ken Howard replaced Dalton when the CBS network picked up the series, renaming it The Manhunter which ran for 22 episodes until March 5, 1975. In

8736-415: Was purchased for $ 24 worth of glass beads. Following the purchase, New Amsterdam grew slowly. To attract settlers, the Dutch instituted the patroon system in 1628, whereby wealthy Dutchmen ( patroons , or patrons) who brought 50 colonists to New Netherland would be awarded land, local political autonomy, and rights to participate in the lucrative fur trade. This program had little success. Since 1621,

8832-528: Was set during the Korean War, where a unit of American soldiers, along with a three-man British tank crew are trapped behind enemy lines. Rolfe's script portrayed the career and accidental death of a Korean War jet ace who was killed on August 25, 1954, while serving as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert , California . Rolfe's script, co-written with Irving Wallace , centered on

8928-417: Was the U.S. capital from 1785 until 1790. The modern city was formed by the 1898 consolidation of its five boroughs : Manhattan , Brooklyn , Queens , the Bronx , and Staten Island . Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District, Manhattan , New York City has been called both the world's premier financial and fintech center and the most economically powerful city in the world. As of 2022 ,

9024-669: Was the sitcom Get Smart , a spoof of the then-popular secret agent genre, which premiered in 1965 on NBC and starred Don Adams and Barbara Feldon . Production took place at Sunset Bronson Studios in Hollywood , so Talent Associates had to establish a West Coast presence. Get Smart spanned 138 episodes over 5 years, and was very popular in broadcast syndication . It spawned sequels, reunion shows and even major feature films decades after its premiere. Talent Associates continued with television and motion picture projects, including producing duties on Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ,

9120-669: Was watched by an estimated 25 million viewers. In 1975 Rolfe purchased the Zimmerman House , a landmark home located in the Brentwood neighborhood in Los Angeles for $ 205,000 (equivalent to $ 1,160,779 in 2023) from actor Richard Kelton . Designed in 1949 by modernist architect Craig Ellwood , the house was built in 1950 on a 0.83-acre lot, featuring extensive landscaping by landscape architect Garrett Eckbo . After Rolfe's death, his widow Hilda Newman-Rolfe continued to own and reside at

9216-476: Was writing The Naked Spur while Bradbury was working on It Came From Outer Space . Rolfe's early career included writing 30 minute radio plays for various broadcast anthology shows. Among them were: In 1950 Rolfe was writing for the radio anthology show Suspense . Richard Widmark starred in Rolfe's Too Hot To Live , playing a drifter who finds himself accused of murdering a young cafe waitress. Rolfe's script

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