... Brook Reservoir is located in Putnam county, thirty-eight miles away from New York City. It holds 4.4 billion gallons. It has a 3.7 square mile watershed. The water quality of this reservoir is slightly above average. The water is threatened by sewage and storm water runoff. The Amawalk ... located in Westchester County, thirty-six miles away from New York City. It has a 7.2 billion-gallon capacity. Its watershed is twenty-four square miles. The water quality is average and threatened by horse farm runoff, sewage, and erosion. The Cross River Reservoir is located in Westchester County ......

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... . As more than one critic has noted, Miss Martin's work of the time does have certain affinities with Kelly's brightly colored paintings of geometrical shapes. For example, her twelve-inch-square painting Islands No. 1 (1960), a work in oil and pencil on canvas that was included in the Whitney show, consists of a rectangular grid made up of rows of short horizontal dashes ... or hierarchical order among the modules, and the field, or space, is inseparable from the design elements within it. Miss Martin's early grid drawings, which were almost always nine inches square, featured ruled lin...

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... amounts of money. Since the company was a private company, the public did not have a say in whether or not the station stayed open. The space was used for the Madison Square Garden sports complex and for office facilities. Another primary source added by the producers of The Rise and Fall of Penn Station was an expert from the October 28th, 1963 ... landmarks. In honor of the Penn Station, the Grand Central Terminal was created in 1967. The terminal closely imitates the beauty and aesthetics of the original Penn Station. Although, Madison Square Garden is in the space of the original, t...

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... . I finally got to go when my Aunt and Grandma got us three tickets to New York for my birthday. They told me we were going to be staying in Time Square for a week. I couldn't believe it; I was so excited! May 28, 2013 was the day we left for New York. I remember having to stay overnight in Dayton at my aunt's house ... what all these people went through and still are going through. That day we started off eating a good breakfast that would satisfy us for a while. Then we walked to Time Square and saw GMA which was really cool. After that, somehow we ended up on a party bus to the park w...

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... , Los Angeles, Toronto, and London. (World Wrestling ) The WWE is very popular to teens and adults alike. The WWE's new event was WrestleMania, which aired on March 14 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The WWE will spend $5 million to promote their event. The WWE is not a small company. It has millions of fans all over the world, and ... all the people in and out of the city in a week, the viewing figures had to be staggering. A WrestleMania Hall of Fame display was in the window of the Times Square Toys "R" Us. WWE's wrestling superstars have rung the NYSE bell on Wall Street. ...

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... York (FDNY). The merit system of promotion in the Fire Department was instituted in 1870. Today the Fire Department protects more than 8,000,000 residents in an area of 320 square miles. The Fire Commissioner appointed by and responsible to the Mayor administers the department. The uniformed force is under the command of the Chief of Department and consists of more ... exam must be taken. The Fire Department of New York consists of 11,495 uniformed firefighters and fire officers. Considering that NYC has a population of 8,008,278 and is 321.8 square miles (see figure 1.0) the amount of ...

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... , trimmed with aluminum and chrome-nickel steel from the 6th floor to the top. The designers needed 200,000 cubic feet of Indiana Limestone, 10,000 square feet of Rose Famosa and Estrallante marble, 300,000 square feet of Hauteville and Rocheron marble for the elevator lobbies and hallways on the office floors. The Framework was constructed at about 4.5 stories per week ... ...

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... is New York City, which has five boroughs. They are Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. Manhattan has the most tourist attractions such as The Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Wall Street, Rockefeller Center and the empire state building. One major attraction was the Twin Towers, which were destroyed on September eleventh two thousand one in a terrorist attack. Manhattan is ... July for the first time and I am going to have so much fun I can't wait! My favorite basketball team is the Lakers, but it's always fun watching them at Madison Square Garden, which is the home ...

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... 150 museums, 400 art galleries, more than 240 theaters, 60 clubs and 50 dance halls, 17000 restaurants and cafés, 1543 parks with playgrounds (among them Central Park with the square of 34 ha, covering 5 % of Manhattan's square; 65 bridges, almost 200 skyscrapers, 10240 km of streets and roads, 3500 churches and synagogues, 1385 taxies in NY. ...

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... fact, I could tell a few minutes after landing that New York was not like Texas, Houston or any other city in US. It was until we reached our hotel at Times Square that I realized that not only the motorists were in a hurry. People on the street were walking at fast pace, an indication that they were rushing to get somewhere. The transportation ... ...

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... : Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond. The boroughs are divided into neighborhoods and each neighborhood has an individual ethnic character. The most interesting attractions of New York City are Times Square, Central Park and the Statue of Liberty which was a gift to the People of United States from France in 1886 to honor their friendship. Pennsylvania was primarily a heart of immigration ... ...

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... major divide between the rich and the poor. On the bottom of page 294, he writes, "Leaving the Elevated Railroad where it dives under the Brooklyn Bridge at Franklin Square, scare a dozen stops will take us where we wish to go. With its rush and roar echoing yet in our ears, we have turned the corner from prosperity to poverty ... ...

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... she would have a better life when she got off Ellis Island, but nothing turned out the way she wanted. In the end of the book, she was right back to square one just as she had been when she first landed in America. However, this time it was worse because she had lost the home she had been living in and ... ...

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... done, we went to see historical places. The next day we went to eat breakfast and went to go look at more places. In the afternoon we went to Time Square and we shopped. There was a lot of people. When we got done shopping and left to the hotel. We changed and went to the pool. Then I got out and went ... ...

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... . Looking at the painting, the first thing that I noticed was the great detail and the composition of the painting. The placement of the lines for the doors gave the room a square feel. I particularly liked how the angle of the table was offset from the walls in the room, however this gave the room a much smaller feel. Bronzino did very well with ... ...

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... when he was fully satisfied with it, would he begin the process of applying paint. When he painted over the charcoal, he'd do so with extreme care, often only covering a 1/2 a square-inch in a five-hour working day. Once, Albright painted a portion of the piece, he never retouched it or attempted to improve it Each object in his paintings would require a new ... ...

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... the entire theater to show everyone in the play. The use of the upper tier as a upstairs to the house in New Rochelle and as a platform to speak in Union Square. Also the floor of the stage was used to its fullest. The scene with the baby in the garden, the garden was in the floor of the stage. Also the ... ...

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... City of Brotherly Love", has been the scene of much important American History. Philadelphia is the birthplace of America Its Independence National Historical Park is one of the most famous square miles in the United States; the park is home to the Liberty Bell, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Independence Hall. Other famous landmarks include: Betsy Ross House, Christ ... ...

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... locks in the hair represents the age of an old woman, one who has seen and experienced much in her lifetime. Pieces where she has used hair include: "ID", "Outline", "Square Deal", "Double Negative", and many others. If there was a section of her work that I found to be the most difficult to understand, it would have to be pieces of work ... ...

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... design was worked out through out the years to better suit the needs of that particular artist at the time. The original birthplace of American style tattooing was in Chatham Square, New York City, this happening around the turn of the twentieth century. Many men taught themselves how to tattoo and began to teach their wives and eldest children. They would ... ...

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... , photographs and paintings with archival film, sound recordings and commentary by leading scholars. In this exhibit, the Harlem Renaissance is more than a phenomenon confined to artists of color in a few square miles of Manhattan. It is an historical moment of global significance, with links to Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and other parts of the U.S. In 1925, the African-American philosopher Alain ... ...

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... established in 1958 by Dutch settlers who called it Niew Haarlem, after a city in Holland. The neighborhood stretched from 110th street to 150th street, covering a space of less then two square miles. Harlem remained a rural area intill the nineteenth century when transportation improved, making it accessible to lower Manhattan. In time Harlem became a fashionable white neighborhood of New York City. The ... ...

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... Woodbridge Township was gradually divided and portions of the area went to other municipalities. But the township is still one of the largest in the State with some twenty-seven square miles (Woodbridge). George Washington also stayed in Woodbridge, at the Cross Keys Tavern on his way to be inaugurated in New York City ( Mc Ewen and Troeger 16). The Cross ... ...

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... is the city to do it in. Alot of great sites here, such as, The Statue of Liberty is the top 10 sites to see in America. Another is Time Square or even Central Park is calming. You can walk on the park trails and clear you mind or just have fun taking in all the beautiful scenery. These are just ... ...

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... this made her feel like more of a stranger to the city. Even after eight years in New York she still liked being there. She "Liked the bleak branches above Washington Square...the morning chromatic flatness of Second Avenue, the fire escapes and the grilled storefronts peculiar and empty in their perspective," (Didion 234). She begins to love the city in another ... ...

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