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New York public radio station WNYC transmitted its AM signal from the WNYC Transmitter Park in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood for over 50 years from 1937 to 1990. When WNYC started broadcasting in 1924, it was owned by the City of New York, and broadcast from a transmitter located on the 25th floor of the Municipal Building in Manhattan. The proliferation Read more...
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For Tandon School of Engineering students, New York University’s ID card, the NYUCard, may be picked up on weekdays at the Tandon NYUCard Center on the ground floor of 2 MetroTech Center in Brooklyn. NYUCard applicants must bring government issued ID with a current photo, and an N number or NetID. New students may upload a photo via photoid.nyu.edu and Read more...
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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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