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Jane’s Carousel is a restored 1922 carousel with ornate carved horses located in the Empire Fulton Ferry section of the Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. Originally installed at Idora Park in Youngstown, Ohio, the carousel was purchased in the 1980s by David Walentas, the real estate developer behind the revitalization of the Dumbo neighborhood, Read more...
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Dumbo is short for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. This waterfront neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, as the name suggests, sits beneath Manhattan Bridge, sandwiched between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. It is thought the acronym was coined in the 1970s and use of the name became more popular from the late 1990s when a Read more...
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The New York City borough of Brooklyn is named after the town of Breukelen in the Netherlands. In the mid 1600s, Dutch colonists established six settlements in the area of present-day Brooklyn, one of which was called Breuckelen after the Dutch town. After the British gained control of the territory in 1664, the name became anglicized and the six towns Read more...
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The stores at Manhattan Mall in New York City include: JCPenney Aeropostale Express Top Gun Leather City Streets Shoes Call It Spring LensCrafters New York & Company GNC Lids Mandee Strawberry, and Starbucks, and Read more...
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Yes, West Village is a subsection of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York City. Although its boundaries are not formally defined, the West Village is generally accepted as being that area of Greenwich Village lying west of 7th Avenue, excluding the Meatpacking District. It is not unusual to see 6th Avenue being shown as the eastern boundary. Read more...
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The country music format radio station in New York is WNSH, branded as New York’s Country 94.7. Owned by Audacy (formerly Entercom), it broadcasts from studios in Manhattan’s Hudson Square at 94.7 MHz FM and HD Radio, and also streams online. The station is licensed to Newark, New Jersey, but its broadcast area covers North Jersey and New York City. Read more...
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Bella Abzug was a lawyer and three-term Democratic congresswoman from New York City known for championing women’s rights, human rights, equality and social justice. She died in 1998 and Manhattan’s Hudson Yards Park was renamed Bella Abzug Park in her honor in 2019. Read more...
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The fifteen digit clock on the building facade above Best Buy at 1 Union Square South in New York measures the time from midnight and the time remaining in the day as follows: From the left side the first seven digits show the time in 24-hour format as hours, minutes, seconds and tenths of a second. The last seven digits, Read more...
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Coney Island is located on a peninsula at the southwestern tip of the borough of Brooklyn, New York City, some 13 miles (or 21 kilometers) south of midtown Manhattan. The area was once truly an island, originally being the westernmost of the several, smaller, Outer Barrier islands on the southern shore of Long Island, and separated from the rest of Read more...
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American Airlines Flight 587 crashed near Beach 131st Street and Newport Avenue in the residential neighborhood of Belle Harbor in Queens, New York City, shortly after takeoff from nearby JFK Airport on November 12th, 2001. All 260 passengers and crew were killed, along with 5 people on the ground, and the impact and ensuing fire destroyed several houses. The NTSB Read more...
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Requests for free tickets to see a taping of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at NBC Studios in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center can be made online at tonightshowtix.com. Tickets are released monthly, with a month’s ticket waitlist typically opening during the first week of the prior month. Numbered stand-by cards are also handed out at 9 am on the morning Read more...
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Radio City was a name given to the western portion of New York’s Rockefeller Center by its first major tenant, the Radio Corporation of America, or RCA. RCA, then the parent company of NBC, initially housed its radio-related broadcast operations at Radio City, later adding television production facilities. NBC’s TV studios continue to be located in the Rockefeller Center. Read more...
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Alcohol consumption is not permitted in Times Square at any time, including New Years Eve. It is illegal to drink alcoholic beverages or have an open container of alcohol in any public place in New York City. Read more...
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The northern end of Manhattan’s High Line elevated park and walkway wraps around the Hudson Yards development and emerges on West 34th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues. A spur off the Highline at West 30th Street near 10th Avenue connects directly to the shops and restaurants at 10 Hudson Yards and there is stair and elevator access to street Read more...
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Manhattan’s Central Park is 843 acres in area, equivalent to 1.3 square miles (or 3.4 square kilometers). It is New York City’s fifth largest park by area. The rectangular urban park measures 2.5 miles (or 4 kilometers) from top to bottom and 0.5 miles (or 0.8 kilometers) across. It stretches for 51 city blocks from 59th Street to Central Park Read more...
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Staten Island Ferry runs every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A more frequent service every 15 or 20 minutes operates on weekdays during the rush hours of 6 am to 9:30 am and 3:30 pm to 8 pm. Read more...
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Vine and HQ Trivia cofounder, Colin Kroll, died at the age of 34 from an apparent drugs overdose in his apartment on Spring Street in New York’s Nolita neighborhood. In the early hours of Sunday, December 16th, 2018, police attended Kroll’s apartment and found him face down and unresponsive in his bedroom, and he was declared dead shortly afterwards. His Read more...
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WNYC is located at New York Public Radio’s offices and broadcast facilities at Varick Street and Charlton Street in Hudson Square, Manhattan. The station moved here in June 2008 having previously been based in the Manhattan Municipal Building in the Civic Center neighborhood since 1924. WNYC shares the facilities with New York Public Radio’s other stations and media operations, including Read more...
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A marble statue of Christopher Columbus stands on a granite column in the center of Columbus Circle in Manhattan. The monument, created by Italian sculptor Gaetano Russo, is 76 feet (or 23 meters) tall and features bronze reliefs of ships on the column and an angel holding a globe on the base pedestal. The monument was ceremonially unveiled on October Read more...
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The Staten Island Ferry is free of charge in both directions and no ticket is required to travel. Read more...