Jerry Rubin was a charter member of the Yippies and could ably pull off the headband look.

With the aid of the very fun book, New York Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis by Jeffrey A. Kroessler, I present to you the ten most amazing historical moments in NYC in 1967:

• Abbie Hoffman founded the Yippies in his apartment on St. Mark’s Place.
• Muriel Siebert became the first woman to buy a seat on the NYSE.
• The New York Athletic Club was protested for not admitting black athletes.
• Joni Mitchell wrote “Chelsea Morning” while living in Chelsea.
• Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes died on May 22.
• The Electric Circus disco opened on St. Mark’s Place.
• Dr. Benjamin Spock was arrested at an antiwar protest on Whitehall Street.
• Nathan Silver published Lost New York.
• The World Journal Tribune dropped Walter Winchell‘s column.
• Martin Luther King led an antiwar protest from Sheep Meadow to the UN.

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