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  Apartment building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a result in 1901, New York state passed a law called the New York State Tenement House Act to improve the conditions in tenements.
During the 19th century tenements became the predominant type of new housing in Scotland's industrial cities, although they were very common in the Old Town, Edinburgh from the 15th century.
Tenement flats are the most common form of accommodation for students who have moved out of University Halls (dorms).
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 New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania.
New Jersey is bordered on the north and northeast by New York; on the east by the Atlantic Ocean; on the south and southwest by Delaware; and on the west by Pennsylvania.
New Jersey was a crucial swing state in the elections of 1960, 1968, and 1992.
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 Tenement Museum : History | Thirteen/WNET New York
The tenement at 97 Orchard Street was competed in 1864, the same year in which Sherman marched through Georgia, Tolstoy began "War and Peace," Pasteur invented what came to be called pasteurization, and a heroine named Octavia Hill took on the long battle to reform the conditions of the tenements of London.
As commonly applied to tenements in the 1860's, the facade was a trickle-down version, in brick, of the brownstone Italianate facades of the row houses and mansions popular with the City's wealthier families.
The legislation that was to have the greatest impact on the physical character of #97 was the Tenement House Act of 1901.
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 The Avalon Project : The Constitution of New York : April 20, 1777
That the power of impeaching all officers of the State, for mal and corrupt conduct in their respective offices, be vested in the representatives of the people in assembly; but that it shall always be necessary that two third parts of the members present shall consent to and agree in such impeachment.
In July 1673 a Dutch fleet recaptured New York and held it until it was restored to the E:nglish by the treaty of Westminster in February, 1674.
By an act of February 13, 1787, the mode of voting by ballot for the latter was introduced.
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 Old Voices, New Voices: Mainland Puerto Rican Perspectives and Experiences | New York State Curriculum | OAH Magazine ...
We witness first-hand the fantasy-world New York, known to them from illustrated magazines and picture postcards, dashing against the somber reality of the crowded tenements where they came to live, while their prospects for stable employment dwindled the longer they stayed.
Then she came to New York in the twenties, and she was a pionera, and she spent all her life in a garment factory.
NEW YORK STATE CURRICULUM EDITOR’S NOTE: A difference of opinion exists concerning the proper terminology to use in referring to Puerto Rico and the United States.
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 New York State Writers Institute - Writers Online, Volume 2, No 4
Today’s ceremony marks the presentation of the 1993 New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit as State Author to William Gaddis, and the 1993 New York State Walt Whitman Citation of Merit as State Poet to Richard Howard.
This is the Citation of Merit: the New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit, we honor William Gaddis as one of the exemplary artists of our time, and celebrate his unswerving dedication to the integrity of his work.
Thierry grows up in a house where his father’s two mistresses create jealousies and dramas; he comes of age when he’s sent out to hunt the frogs and later the dead; he meets his only love, who is at first his father’s mistress.
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 immigrant-writing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
New York City: Exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York on "Global New York: The Lower East Side." (April 15 through August).
New York City: Hunter College, "Where is the 'I' in Immigrant: Documenting the Neighborhoods of the New New Yorkers." (April 21, Wed.
The purpose of concentrating upon this topic is to deepen familiarity and foster pride among residents in the extraordinary richness of the New York State literary heritage.
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 National Parks By State - New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Topics include: new york harbor, new york state, mayor of new york, new york, castle garden, castle clinton, new york city, york harbor, castle, york, dewitt clinton, clinton, opera house, entertainment center, manhattan island, 1840s, war of 1812, forts, immigrant, aquarium.
Topics include: port of new york, ellis island, liberty national monument, new york, territorial jurisdiction, mass migration, history of immigration, york, massive restoration, statue of liberty, steerage, steamship, monument, centuries, national monument.
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 New York State Writers Institute - Albany Magazine
Her new 608-page novel (her 24th) was on bookstore shelves, and another, shorter novel was already at the publisher.
Oates, a tall, willowy figure with delicate hands and a sweet, high-pitched voice, said she found "an apt metaphor," a direct connection, between the fact that a serial killer feels perfectly justified in killing helpless victims and the fact the government felt justified in experimenting on helpless retarded boys in the 1950s.
Foote recalled the walkway to Faulkner’s house was lined with cedar trees and he was greeted by three hounds, two fox terriers and a Dalmatian in the yard.
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Lured by out-of-date house prices and a twin set of superhighways, growing numbers of New York and New Jersey residents are settling into dozens of small northeastern Pennsylvania communities stretching from the old mill town of Easton to the heart of honeymoon land in the Pocono mountains.
WHILE New Jersey suffers from a severe shortage of low-cost housing, tens of thousands of tenants across the state face eviction because their apartments are being converted to condominiums or cooperatives.
SALES of houses, co-ops and condominiums in the New York metropolitan area, still near the bottom of a slump that has been longer and deeper than any since before World War II, have improved steadily since the spring in what analysts say is the beginning of a slow recovery.
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 WNYC - News - New York City's Nightmare House
NEW YORK, NY October 28, 2005 —Get ready for your senses to be assaulted and your psyche to be unsettled.
Guests to the haunted house, called “Nightmare,” gather in the lobby of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center and wait until they are taken inside the exhibit in small groups.
Nightmare…New York City’s most horrifying haunted house is running through Halloween night at the Velez Cultural Center on Suffolk Street on the Lower East Side.
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 Local Catholic Church History and Catholic Ancestors - New York
The Diocese of Ogdensburg encompasses the northeastern New York counties of
Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, an act of incorporation was secured, on 10 June, 1785, for the "Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church of the City of New York," in which Jose Roiz Silva, James Stewart, and Henry Duffin were associated with him as the first board.
The Diocese of Syracuse encompasses the central New York counties of Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego.
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 New Books: New York State Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Immigrants to citizens : a role for state legislators / by Ann Morse and Aida Orgocka.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2005.
A new microvertebrate fauna from the Middle Hettangian (Early Jurassic) of Fontenoille (Province of Luxembourg, south Belgium) / by Dominique Delsate, Christopher J. Duffin & Robi Weis.
www.nysl.nysed.gov /newbooks/dec05/nbtitle.htm   (6447 words)

  
 Films B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Special edition includes an all-new musical sequence for the song "Human Again," a "making of" featurette, and a new recording of the title tune by pop group Jump 5.
In this film, she not only acts as brilliantly as she usually does, but she pulls off three wonderful impressions: one of a little old lady crossing the street, one of a carnival barker, and a sensational impression of Betty Garrett singing "Ok'l Baby Dok'l." Lotte Lehmann and Betty Garret's screen debut.
New Orleans clarinetist Bing Crosby teams up with trumpet player Brian Donlevy and singer Mary Martin to form a band to play his new brand of Dixieland music and this tuneful (if not historically accurate) account of the beginnings of jazz.
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 Title Index: Broadside Ballads Finding Aid (New York State Library)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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