... migration from Lower Manhattan. German and Irish immigrants began to settle all over Harlem but most of them settled in the Yorkville area. African Americans settled uptown along the East River and 116th St. area. Buildings and tenements began to boom along the East River. In 1868, the oldest tenement buildings was constructed along First Avenue between 116th and 117th St. Factories were ... to ad their tradition and culture along East 116st which is considered the heart of Harlem. Housing Rowhouses in the East Harlem Historic District are the oldest buildings in the area. Many of these ...

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... , boosted New York's economy and was an example of great American achievement. After a second war against Great Britain, the War of 1812, the people of the United States were feeling confident about the future of their expanding nation. Thousands of pioneers struggled over a rough barrier: the thickly wooded Appalachian Mountains that extended down the continent. On the other side was the tantalizing west, stretching clear to the Mississippi River and beyond. Settlers" wagons jolted down roads that ... had once been Indian trails. When farmers and fur trappers got to the lonely frontier,...

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... , boosted New York's economy and was an example of great American achievement. After a second war against Great Britain, the War of 1812, the people of the United States were feeling confident about the future of their expanding nation. Thousands of pioneers struggled over a rough barrier: the thickly wooded Appalachian Mountains that extended down the continent. On the other side was the tantalizing west, stretching clear to the Mississippi River and beyond. Settlers" wagons jolted down roads that ... had once been Indian trails. When farmers and fur trappers got to the lonely frontier,...

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... or she could come and get them. If you are a free slave they still can sell you to who ever want to buy you weather they lived up or down the river. The search for runaway slaves has become a witch hunt. Any African Americans can be condemned simply with an accusation. Even a free man has no right to a trial by jury. Ordinary people ... Brown prepares to take the fight to the heart of the South. His plan to capture the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia was the biggest collection of weapons in the South. Browns wanted to am slaves and lead a salve rebellion. Brown had his five...

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... would be difficult. There were many problems to be solved. The bridge would have to be strong enough to withstand the swift currents and powerful winds of the East River. It could not get in the way of the hundreds of boats that traveled on the river every day. It had to be so high that the masts of tall sailing ships could easily pass under it. And it had ... preliminary surveys, estimated cost, took sounding, and wrote his proposal. In June of 1869 John finished the design for the bridge. A bridge over the East River, joining the cities of New York and Brooklyn, was not unheard of. Ac...

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... away layers of silt in an atmosphere of compressed air underneath the riverbed from inside. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 78 ½ feet below the river on the Manhattan side, and 44 ½ feet below the river on the Brooklyn side is where they dug. How do they get the caissons down? A first for this type of engineering. Dynamite was used for the first time in a bridge's construction. Even with the addition of dynamite, the foundations took ... to construct. To top it off, many workers died inside the caissons. There was no electricity, or telephones. Immigrant workers dealt with fire, and ...

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... a city inhabiting over one million people, one-eighth the population of New York City, with water, 2,000 years ago. In Rome's early days, the people got water from nearby springs that were filled by the Tiber River. The water near Rome in the Tiber was becoming polluted because Rome's sewer system, the Cloaca Maxima, dumped sewage into the Tiber. The increasing demand for clean, cool water needed a solution ... . Aqueducts were the answer. The word aqueduct means a man-made conduit for carrying water. It comes from the Latin words aqua meaning water and ducere ... pressure around the wa...

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New York. New York City is located on the Eastern Atlantic coast of the United States, at the mouth of the Hudson River. New York City is made of five boroughs separated by various waterways. Brooklyn and Queens occupy the western portion of Long Island, while Staten Island and Manhattan are completely on their own land mass. Bronx, to the north, remains attached to the New York State mainland. Manhattan's street layout consists ... 5th Avenue chock full of museums and other fine arts institutions. If you are in New York for a short stay and need to cram in lots of sightseeing, Museum Mile is...

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... 's city tower paintings. Okeefe produced some twenty-five paintings and drawings of urban scenery during this period broken down into three registers: the darkened water towers and irregular roof lines of east side Manhattan, the calm waters of the east river, and the jagged piers and the smog covered smokestacks of Long Island. In 1929 Georgia was in need of a change of scenery so she set out by train with her friend, Beck ... 's antlers suspended in a pinkish blue dawn over snow capped mountains. She saw the bones as a unique way of depicting the desert that other artist's would not imi...

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... York City's five boroughs. It is also the most populous county in the state with 2.45 million residents. The population within Brooklyn consists of over 90 different ethnic groups from everywhere in the world. Yet, there are specific landmarks that set Brooklyn apart from the other boroughs. In order to be declared a landmark, it is stipulated by the Landmark Law that "a potential landmark must ... for their remarkable designs of Central Park and the National Zoo in Washington D.C. Designed in 1866, the park is 526 acres with a 60 acre lake on its east side and a 90 acre Long Meadow on ...

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... where she was at. Didion enjoyed walks through the city, around the village and down to the river, and through uptown on summer evenings. Soon she begins to realize that even all the excitement and all the parties could not keep her attention forever, she felt as if she had stayed at the "Fair" too long. Just as the landscape of New York began to fade so did its ... . Whereas people say New York is only for the "Very rich and the very poor" (Didion 227) she also believed that it was a place for the very young. She refers to it as "Xanadu" a type of pleasure garden and again as "Babylon"....

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... expansion, 12 new wards were created. In the year 1865, a total of 726,386 people lived on Manhattan Island. In the year 1880, the city housed 1,206,000. Most of the population was immigrants from other countries. Near the end of the 1800s, the Irish were the biggest immigrant group to move to NYC. The Chinese also entered the U.S. as the California gold rush became popular. The Chinese occupied in area in Manhattan that ... was developed much later because it was more west in the territory in the United States. Chicago developed much more fully from the railroads which brought people in...

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... unique and eclectic neighborhood located at the base of the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, right down underneath the Manhattan bridge overpass (hence the acronym). One of the reasons that I loved this neighborhood so much (besides my fabulous new loft pad in an undercover community of amazing artists), was it's prime location on the water front of the East River. A quick two block walk along the quiet cobble stone streets, then ... squeezing through the hole in the tattered fence that guards the empty lot over grown with weeds, and I was in heaven: my very own ... engaged in serious co...

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