41 Cooper square is the new building for The Copper Union Advancement of Science and Art campus. It was designed by Thom Mayne, one of the founders of Morphosis ... between East 6th and 9th streets; where once the School of Art Abraham Hewitt was located. It is a nine stories high building and has a size of 175,000 square feet in a site area of 0.4 acres. The site where it is located consists of low to mid-rise buildings as well as residential spaces. Since it is an ... is slightly lifted to invite people into the lobby. According to an article in Morphopedia, "Responding to its urban contex...

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... 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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... 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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... 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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... on Sunday. The weather was really nice. It was my first time to go into the Washington Square Park. It is a peaceful and beautiful park that borders New York University (NYU) and is home to New York City's iconic white arch. Strolling and sitting in the park, were ... Bohemian capital. It is like being in an entirely different city than most of Manhattan. There are many nice little stores and markets, mature landscaping and tree-lined streets. Washington Square Arch is a manifest landmark in the park. The arch itself is 77 feet high. It was originally made of wood and stucco but redone...

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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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... business center expanded in all distractions from the core which is Main street and Roosevelt Avenue. This junction becomes the third busiest intersection in New York besides only Times Square and Herald Square. Businesses, wages and employment in Flushing have grown at a rate that far outpaces the rest of the borough. The burgeoning commercial sector has attracted a stunning amount of large-scale ... ...

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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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... , 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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... 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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... , Assyrians, Italians, Greek, Hispanics, Cambodians, Locations, and Vietnamese there still, even though industry in this city is not what it used to be. New Britain covers a relatively small area, 13.2 square miles, and is conveniently located in the geographic center of the state, with three airports within a 25 mile radius. It offers in-town connections to major interstates and routes leading ... to be. The prosperity of New Britain used to be linked with the manufacture of small hardware parts and tools. The exodus of this industry left more than 600,000 square feel of vacant manufact...

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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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... people are aware, the price of living in New York is extremely high. While this has almost always been the case, Manhattan has seen the largest rise in price per square foot of land out of all the five boroughs. Because of this, fewer and fewer immigrants, those of low economic standing at least, are coming to settle in Manhattan, the ... ...

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... graffiti and they were unreliable. It seemed as if the entire infrastructure was in decay. Political corruption, sloppy accounting, and the cost of the war were killing the city. Times Square, the crossroads of the world, was seedy and sleazy. Pimps, hookers, and drug dealers owned the night there. Crime was rampant, and the police were powerless to stop it. Random ... ...

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... sometimes heavily armed forces to the streets (Bornstein, 2005). The MTA has also been working with the NYPD by putting up cameras at Grand Central Station, Penn Station, and Times Square. They have put up nearly 3,700 security cameras online and operational in the subways and additional cameras will be placed in the upcoming years. The cameras are part of the ... ...

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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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... do vacant property create unsightly neighborhoods, but unsafe ones as well. The Independent Budget Office proposed taxing vacant land at the same rate as commercial land, particularly those over 2,500 square feet. A higher tax rate would encourage owners to take care of and develop the land. A higher tax would become increasingly costly for property owners to pay and would turn to ... ...

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... at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. At the age 20 in 1902, William was hired by the Clinton and Russell Architecture firm to be a draftsman on the Hotel Astor in Times Square. Hotel Astor was one of the projects Van Alen experienced with the Clinton and Russell Architecture firm. Six years later after achieving the Pairs Prize scholarship that allowed him to ... ...

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... for humans to live in communities. According to the 2010 census, the population of New York City was 8,175,136. This means that there are about 68,872 people per square mile.6 Communities are also often based on common characteristics between the people living there. They live together, laugh together, and eat together. Most humans want to have a communal life surrounded ... ...

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