... Demand For Improving The Quality of Life Public and Private Initiatives ", by George L. Kelling and Catherine M. Cole it speaks of how Operation Crossroad was created to clean up Times Square, it addressed the Prostitution, hustling, gambling and drug dealing scams. The initiative at first incorporated an aggressive tactic from police officers to sweep up anyone involved in such crimes or ... sanctioned an individual who commit a crime had to pay restitution, Judges also provide drug treatment to drug addicted criminals and or made those participate in services for the Times Square comm...

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... London Assurance with Dion Boucicault). In 1879, after it was remodelled by Steele Mackaye with the backing of the Mallory brothers, it was renamed the Madison Square Theatre. It boasted a remarkable elevator stage pictured below (figure 8), as well as a primitive but effective air conditioning system. Ice was brought in every ... show went on with only a half-hour delay. As impressive and efficient as the elevator stage was, it had its limitations and drawbacks. The Madison Square Theatre opened February 4th, 1880. It had a seating capacity of five hundred and was known as the cosiest a...

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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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... is known as Canal Street. 8" By 1811 a new neighborhood was built over the location of the filled in pond. This was named Paradise Square. Mostly wooden homes were built here and by the 1820's their foundations began sinking into the unstable land causing the wooden frames to tilt. The ... buildings were structurally unsound, the decaying landfill became infested with mosquitos and soon the middle class families moved out of Paradise Square to higher ground. The poverty stricken, lower class people quickly flocked to these rundown buildings which were transformed into tenements9. These t...

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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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... private sectors, our youths of today have organizations that can assist them with the many problems of growing up in an urban environment. One of these organizations is the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club of New York City. This clubhouse is catered to children from the ages of six to eighteen. I had the opportunity of interviewing several club and staff members ... and is a homework assistant tutor working with the younger club members in math and English. He also plans on going to college and has been awarded a scholarship from the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club. After he graduates ...

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... better than perhaps anyone else that was alive at that time. Tesla used radio to create remote control. During the Spanish American War in 1898, Tesla made a demonstration in Madison Square Garden. He demonstrated the first radio-controlled vehicle on the Earth in front of 15,000 people. (Hughes, 1989) Tesla patented his invention. In this patent, he described things he ... could not show in Madison Square Garden. Under this patent, there were specifications of a torpedo boat without a crew, including a motor and storage battery to drive the propeller, small motors and batteries to oper...

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... people in rural areas are used to making things themselves, all the family members (almost twenty people because my dad has six siblings), both female and male, stood around a huge square table in the middle of the kitchen, making dumplings and talking. It is unusual for male to be in the kitchen preparing food. China has a long history of preferring males ... ...

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... through the use of commonplace materials.(2) Weiwei is also known for his famous photo series titled "Study of Perspective" in which he flips off the White House, Tiananmen Square and Mao's portrait capturing his push for free expression and his relentless questioning of authority. Another fact most people don't know about Ai is his music, particularly his heavy metal ... ...

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... keep up a high-volume conversation laced with profanities. The same with three teenagers on a bus. Ditto for a taxi driver complaining about the "fucking traffic." Or for a police officer in Times Square who, when asked politely what a street protest is about, replies: "How the fuck should I know?" These are not incidents merely specific to New York, or even the United States. All ... ...

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... basketball players Ralph Beard, Alex Groza and Dale Barnstable were arrested for accepting $500 bribes to shave points in a National Invitation Tournament (NIT), game against Loyola of Chicago in Madison Square Garden in 1949. Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp had claimed his team was untouchable: "They couldn't reach my boys with a ten-foot pole."" He was wrong. The NCAA suspended the Kentucky ... ...

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... selfish reason that they gave for doing that. Tesla wanted an ordinary way to show his remote control, so he built a little remote controlled boat. The exhibition was at Madison Square Garden and everyone was expecting something big, but it was only a small iron hulled boat that was driven in a small indoor pond. Everyone wanted something big. He specially built it ... ...

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... right arm which was part of a gladiators general equipment.(Quennell p.45) Secutors were armed with a sword and mace loaded with lead. Thraces carried a curved scimitar of varying shape, and a small square or round shield. Myrmilliones carried a shield and a short scythe and wore a distinctive fish ornament on their helmets. The Retiarii were exceptionally uncovered, except sometimes for a head band. They carried a trident ... ...

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... those who would not comply. Literary critic, Yvor Winters says: "Julius Beaufort, the beefy financier of The Age of Innocence, is a disturbing portent, but his financial disgrace only strengthens Washington Square in its self-esteem. Ellen Olenska, who represents another kind of threat to the tribal security is vanquished when society closes about the Newland Archers like a Roman Wall." I agree with ... ...

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... up the Pullman Strike siding with the company, not with the union. While the public was extremely happy with the deal worked out with the coal company, know as the "square deal," it was very unsuccessful according to many historians such as John A. Garraty who says, "In fact the results were by no means so clear cut. The miners gained relatively ... ...

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