... 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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... 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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... : 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... Chrysler Corp. The building is 102 stories high. It is 1,472 feet to top of antennae; it is 1,250 feet to 102nd floor observatory; area of site is 79,288 square feet. Its structure materials include steel, concrete and brick. Its exterior materials include Indiana limestone and granite, trimmed with aluminum and chrome-nickel steel from the 6th floor to the ... ...

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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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... Stanford permanently in the fall of 1925 without a degree (Fontenrose 3). In New York City, his brother-in-law found him a job pushing wheelbarrows for the construction of the original Madison Square Garden while continuing his pursuit as a writer (Lisca 32). After giving free-lance writing a try, he returned to California in 1926 (Fontenrose 3). For the next three years, periods of temporary ... ...

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... shows done in their native tongue, and the non-Jewish a chance to experience something different. But Broadway was not to be outdone. A Russian Troupe set up stage at Broadway's Herald Square Theater, but their efforts at attracting an audience failed because, unlike the Bowery, Broadway was too far away from the main concentration of the immigrant population, and in many ways ... ...

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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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... 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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... Walker made a musical play by the name of "In Dahomey" in 1902. This was the first black show ever to open on Broadway at the New York Theatre in Times Square. This show was followed by many more like "In Abyssinia" in 1906 and "Bandanna Land" in 1908. Bandanna Land was their last show because George Nash Walker became ill and ... ...

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... 535 rural counties with persistent poverty are growing, but only 53 percent are gaining migrants. And 55 percent of the 407"low-density counties" (with fewer than six residents per square mile) are growing, but only 45 percent are gaining migrants. The fastest-growing non-metro counties are located in the Mountain West, the Upper Great Lakes, the Ozarks, parts of ... ...

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