Portal:New York City/Selected anniversaries/June

• June 6, 1946 – The Basketball Association of America, the predecessor to the National Basketball Association, is formed.
• June 12, 1665 – New Amsterdam is reincorporated under English law, and renamed New York after the Duke of York.
• June 12, 1923 – Harry Houdini (pictured) frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground.
• June 17, 1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor aboard the French ship Isère.
• June 28, 1969 – The Stonewall riots begin in response to a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay tavern in Greenwich Village.