#27 feb

Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe Club on February 27, 1945, before the midnight curfew for entertainment places went into effect. This edict complied with the War Manpower Commissioner's request.

Astoria''s own Whitey Ford bids farewell to his family as he boards a train at Penn Station, February 27, 1950. He was off to St. Petersburg for spring training, hoping to win a spot on the Yankees' roster.

The wife of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the man convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby, appeared before a wildly demonstrative crowd in Yorkville, the heart of the city’s German section, February 27, 1935. She asked for funds to appeal her husband’s conviction. In response, a box two feet square was stuffed nearly a foot deep with bills, but the amount raised was not announced.