... 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 ... were limited, as the main antennas for cell phone reception were located on top of one of the towers. The massive antennas now served as a road block somewhere down on Chambers Street. Being an only child, I knew my parents, at home in Michigan, were desperate to know I was safe. It took ... I would...

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... Fatback Band in 1979, but there were many predecessors and early indicators of the possibilities of chanting rhymes over a musical background. Pure hip hop emerged from 1970s block parties in New York City. The block parties were closely related to sound systems in Jamaica, which were large parties, originally outdoors, thrown by owners of loud and expensive stereo equipment which they could ... share with the community. Rap emerged from block parties after DJs isolated percussion breaks and began speaking over the beats; in Jamaica, a similar vocal style called dub developed from the s...

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... York. The Brooklyn Bridge is one of New Yorks most famous landmarks. This bridge took a lot of hard work and effort from many different people. John Roebling went to great lengths to build this bridge. From 1870 to 1883, the bridge was a pioneering example of steel-wire support cables which gave ... not required to approve the plans or the location. The charter said only that it be a toll bridge. A month after the charter became a law, John Roebling had been named engineer of the work. As an experienced bridge-builder, Roebling knew that only a suspension bridge would be strong enough to...

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... from her article; Ed Rutsch (principle investigator) and Len Bianchi (fieldwork director) lead the excavation in which the artifacts13 found were analyzed by John Milner Associates (JMA) in the summer of 1992. The 50 lots unearthed on the block were mostly backyards that had been enclosed within tenement walls later on. This showed how cramped and unsanitary the living conditions were. It ... by tenement walls. (Yamin 2001, 3)" These artifacts were later able to be linked to diverse ethnic groups located within the tenements of Five Points. The archaeologists found that the block was po...

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... first all black musical comedy, which was created, directed, and managed by all black theater professionals. "A Trip to Coontown" was the name of the play and it was a good starting block for black women. It opened at the Third Avenue Theatre in New York City and was the first true show. New York was very excited to be the founding place ... of this big up and coming thing. Bob Cole later teamed up with composer and lyricist John Rosamond Johnson to write the first two black operettas. The names of these two operettas were The Shoo-fly Regiment in 1906 and The Red Moon in 1908. The two ...

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... , and their home Shea Stadium had been built with the use of public funds after the Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles. The mayor of New York at the time John Lindsay offered the Yankees a deal in which the city would buy Yankee Stadium and turn around and lease it back to the Yankees. The deal created a plan that would utilize ... for the renovations was enough for Steinbrenner to keep the Yankees in place, and would later shape the future of the stadium. As was the case in the 1970s when John Lindsay had a close relationship with the owners of the Yankees, in the late 1990s and earl...

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... the graft and bribery of Commodore Cornelius Van-derbilt. Public demand for the transcontinental railroad for westward expansion was originally inspired by an 1836 proposal by the American statesmen John Plumbe and Robert John Walker (Railroads). Finally, in July 1862, Congress authorized the construc-tion of two railroads that together would provide the first railroad link between the Mis-sissippi Valley and ... their convenience; they discriminated among their customers; they attempted to gain a monopoly of transportation wherever possible; and they interfered in state and local polit...

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... full of heroin sticking out of her arm was not something mom and dad wanted their daughter to go see on a Saturday night date with the boy from down the block, and the kids loved it. The New York City art scene magnanimously supported and embraced the punk rock movement because of the new and original aspects of creativity. In the ... like transvestite cabaret or something, kind of pre-punk. When I was living in Marin there was this Village Voice cover story and it had [Punk! magazine founders] Legs McNeil and John Holstrom sort of hanging out at a club in leather jackets and it said "A...

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... the way up to $200,000. The Race Ever since the days of Jimmy Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause-, and "American Graffiti- people have been always tweaking with their big block Chevy's and Mustangs, and racing them. The latest fad in racing has been the import street racing scene. This was started in the early 1990's by a crew of Asian American ... into a third vehicle. The drivers involved in the crash were both killed."" " It's a very dangerous sport " it's an illegal activity, not a sport, said Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Sgt. John Pasquariello. The LAPD has a street racing t...

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... of a tragedy in a slum they shrug it off and say "It was only a bum." In comparison the tragedy of a wealthy white person would be well documented, such as the recent John Kennedy Jr. ordeal. It is not to say that the victims did not deserve a ceremony, but to illustrate how some lives are perceived to be more valuable than others. In ... no idea of what actually goes on in these neighborhoods. After hearing enough of this gathering Kozol is walking away. In a symbolistic way he exits behind the officials to another block where he sees addicts and homeless abundant in the street, as if ...

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... neighborhood unique. This district is known for its high percentage of senior inhabitants. One of the key places of interest is the Cobble Hill Health Center Building. This building is a block long encompassed with red brick and terra-cotta trim. Its front entrance is marked with "majestic rounded towers-. Prospect Park is a notable scenic landmark of Brooklyn. It was designed by ... suspension bridge to use steel for its cable wire. It was also the first bridge to use dangerous, explosive underwater devices called cassions. The bridge was originally designed by engineer John A. Roeblin...

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