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  New York City Encyclopedia Articles @ Zosted.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture.
New York was the capital of the newly-formed United States from 1788 to 1790.
New York emerged from World War II as the unquestioned leading city of the world, with Wall Street leading America's emergence as the world's dominant economic power, the United Nations headquarters (built in Manhattan in 1952) emphasizing its political influence, and the rise of Abstract Expressionism displacing Paris as center of the art world.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Brooklyn, New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
East New York is a primarily low to middle income neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.
Walter Thabit, a city planner for East New York, chronicled in his book, How East New York Became a Ghetto, the change in population from mostly working-class Italians and Jewish residents to impoverished residents, 86% of whom are of Puerto Rican and African-American descent.
Puerto Ricans were moving in masses to New York City in the late 1950s, at a time when umemployment rates in Puerto Rico soared to 25 percent, and unfair import-export rates favouring the United States left Puerto Rico on the brink of poverty.
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 Red Hook, Brooklyn - Wired New York Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (BHRA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to returning trolleys to the streets of Brooklyn, NY.
According to the Encyclopedia of New York City, Red Hook's decline in the late 1950s and early 1960s was linked in part to the demise of so-called break-bulk shipping, when goods were packed in boxes and longshoremen physically unloaded them from ships.
The city and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey gave American Stevedoring Inc., which operates gantry cranes for moving large containers, only a short lease extension on Piers 8, 9 and 10 that expires in April 2007 and removed the company from Pier 6 and 11.
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 List of Brooklyn, New York neighborhoods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are the neighborhoods of Brooklyn, one of five boroughs of New York City, USA.
Neighborhoods in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn
This page was last modified 15:57, 11 July 2006.
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 New York Architecture Images- Williamsburg, Brooklyn-History
In 1898 Brooklyn itself became one of five boroughs within the City of Greater New York, and its Williamsburg neighborhood was opened to closer connections with the rest of the new city.
Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden named Yuko Nii a woman of the year in 2001 and said that her activities had transformed all the Northern part of Brooklyn.
Williamsburg (spelled "Williamsburgh" at the time) became an independent city at just the moment when the New York area was set to become the most important port and financial center in the Western Hemisphere, just after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825.
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 hans winkler @ pierogi 2000
The cabin was open to anyone who made the two hour trek from Brenner Pass.
p.t.t.redÕs New York projects have included Red, 1996; for which they placed red films over spotlights on the Statue of Liberty, bathing Lady Liberty in a red glow for several hours until the unusual hue was noticed and the films were removed by the authorities.
At the same time, however, it is a precursor to the global network and might soon become a relic of the past.
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 TOWNS & COMMUNITIES in Brooklyn, New York(NY)-TOWNS & COMMUNITY Brooklyn, New York City(NY)-Local Business Directory
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