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Cocktails made in New York

A number of notable potables were invented right here. Guess what they are, based on the information provided.
1.Legend has it that sometime in the 1880s, Jenny Jerome, wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of Winston Churchill, commissioned this vermouth-and-bourbon concoction—a reported J.P. Morgan favorite—for a banquet at the Manhattan Club in New York City.
2.A woman who tended bar with Toby Cecchini at Manhattan's Odeon in 1987 introduced him to a new drink. He didn't love the taste but appreciated its pink color, so he tweaked the ingredients and crafted a hit consisting of Absolut Citron, Cointreau, and lime and cranberry juice.
3.In 1934, New Yorkers urged Fernand Petiot—a barman at the St. Regis Hotel—to spice up a bland tomato-based drink he brought with him from Paris. He added a spot of cayenne pepper and Worcestershire sauce and voila!: Hangover sufferers are still thanking him.
4.In 1931, a drink was created at the Waldorf-Astoria whose name paid homage to a nearby alleyway, as well as a colorful bird. The mix consisted of 1 1/2 ounces brandy, two dashes of Amer Picon and one dash of Pernod.
5.Around 1906, again at the Waldorf, a bartender created a drink from dry vermouth, gin, oranges and orange juice and named it after the first thing that came to his mind, which happened to be a visit to one of the city's zoos.
6.Invented in 1911 by the head bartender at the fashionable Knickerbocker Hotel, this simple gin combination has become perhaps the most quintessential New York drink.
7.In 1941, Jack Martin of Smirnoff Vodka and Jack Morgan, owner of New York's Cock ’n Bull Saloon, met at the Chatham Bar to scheme up a way to boost their respective commercial interests; Martin wanted to sell more vodka and Morgan was trying to market Ginger beer. They mixed the two with lime juice to come up with this drink.
8.Hugo Ensslin, a bartender at the Hotel Wallick in Times Square, perfected the recipe for one of the most popular cocktails of the 1930s. No word on whether Charles Lindbergh (or Martin Scorsese) loved this gin and maraschino liqueur drink.
9.Originally developed in Hollywood (okay, we're cheating a little), this beverage made a splashy debut to the general public at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. It combines dark and light and high-proof rums, cherry brandy, orange juice, lemon juice and grenadine, and has an appropriately West Coast movie-monster name.
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