Comments on: It Can Hyphen Here: Why the New-York Historical Society Includes a Hyphen http://blog.nyhistory.org/it-can-hyphen-here-why-the-new-york-historical-society-includes-a-hyphen/ Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:45:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: maurita http://blog.nyhistory.org/it-can-hyphen-here-why-the-new-york-historical-society-includes-a-hyphen/#comment-1477 maurita Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:28:33 +0000 http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4950#comment-1477 In connection with the sentence “The New York Times was one of the last holdouts and used the hyphen in its masthead until the 1890’s,” here are the precise dates: New-York Daily Times, which appeared from 18 September 1851 to 12 September 1857, became The New-York Times on 14 September 1857 (13 September 1857 being a Sunday, the newspaper was not published on that day), which became The New York Times on 1 December 1896.

David L. Gold

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