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 USA Freedom Corps: About USA Freedom Corps: History of 736 Jackson Place   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He also helped to organize the first elevated train in New York City and later founded the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroads.
Leisendng was born in Lutherville, Maryland, and attended the Polytechnic Institute In Baltimore and the University of Pennsylvania.
He received his early training in the offices of E. Lind in Baltimore, John T. Windrim In Philadelphia, Keen and Mead in Philadelphia, and in three Now York City firms: Charles A. Platt; Hornblower and Marshall, and Cass Gilbert.
www.usafreedomcorps.gov /content/about_usafc/building   (4766 words)

  
 Neighborhoods: Brighton Beach -- Congressman Anthony D. Weiner, New York's 9th District
In 1907 the Brighton Beach Baths opened on the site of a former amusement park to provide swimming, tennis, and entertainment (in the mid 1990s the baths were threatened by residential development).
To meet the increased demand for housing in the 1920s, developers built more than thirty six-story apartment buildings with elevators south of Brighton Beach Avenue between Coney Island Avenue and Ocean Parkway.
Along Brighton Beach Avenue Russian restaurants, nightclubs, fruit stands, and bookstores owned by immigrants stand in the shadow of the elevated train.
www.house.gov /weiner/neighborhoods/hoods_brightonbeach.htm   (314 words)

  
 Yerkes, Charles Tyson on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gravy train that's run for 100 years; Critic's choice.(Book Review)
Loop Dreams; Created by a handful of 19th-century transit barons, Chciago's elevated train lines shaped the city and provided affordable transportation throughout its neighborhoods.
Down the tube: Stephen Halliday investigates the murky world of financing London's underground.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/Y/Yerkes-C1.asp   (364 words)

  
 UPHS Visitor Info: Pennsylvania Hospital - Driving Directions
Leaves every half hour at 10 minutes and 40 minutes past the hour, arrives at Market East station (11th and Market).
The train costs about $5 and takes about 30 minutes.
From there, take the Market-Frankford (Blue Line) elevated train/subway to the 8th Street station.
pennhealth.com /pahosp/vi_files/directions.html   (220 words)

  
 EBSS Newsletter May 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The importance of a sense of place to the development of quality resource centers for teachers will be the focus of this day trip to the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Education.
Participants will be introduced to the School's libraries, media centers and computing facilities of its School of Education through videos, tours of these, exemplary resource centers and discussions on serving the information and technology literacy needs of teachers in training and practicing teachers.
The closest Elevated Train is at Sedgwick, several blocks from the CHS.
www.lib.msu.edu /corby/ebss/newsletter/may2000.html   (3801 words)

  
 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt) February 4 in History
Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt) February 4 in History
Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt)
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
www.brainyhistory.com /events/1977/february_4_1977_149365.html   (52 words)

  
 Noise Center: Noise & Children   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Bronzaft, A.L. and McCarthy, D.P. The effect of elevated train noise on reading ability.
Hambrick-Dixon, P.J. Effects of experimentally imposed noise on task performance of Black children attending day care center near elevated subway trains.
Jones, F.N. and Tauscher, J. Residence under an airport landing pattern as a factor
www.lhh.org /noise/children/reference.htm   (400 words)

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