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Train services on the New York City subway carry a white number or letter in a colored circle or diamond, called a bullet, identifying the route that the train service takes along the various lines. Those lines are grouped by color denoting that at some point on their route they share a common section of track, but they do not Read more...

Ari Halberstam was a yeshiva student killed, aged 16, when Lebanese-born terrorist Rashid Baz shot at the van he was traveling in on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, on the morning of March 1st, 1994. Halberstam was one of 15 Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish students in the van that had just joined the bridge from the FDR Drive on-ramp, Read more...

Just before 6 pm on June 28th, 1981, two diagonal steel cable stays on the Brooklyn Bridge snapped due to corrosion. One crashed down into the wooden-slatted pedestrian walkway, while the other whipped back and struck Akira Aimi as he was crossing the bridge on foot. 32-year-old Aimi, a Japanese professional photographer living in New York, was critically injured, suffering Read more...

The Holland Tunnel emerges in Lower Manhattan parallel to Canal Street in the Tribeca neighborhood. The Holland Tunnel Rotary road loops around Saint John’s Park, with right-lane exits in the following order: Exit 1: West Street (or West Side Highway 9A) via Laight Street Exit 2: Uptown via Hudson Street Exit 3: Brooklyn via Manhattan Bridge or Williamsburg Bridge Exit Read more...

The Brooklyn Bridge can be crossed on foot in approximately 30 minutes, depending on factors such as numbers of other pedestrians and the weather. The walkway is segregated for pedestrians and cyclists, and sightseers stopping to take photographs and not keeping to the designated lanes can slow the flow of other pedestrians and bike traffic across the bridge considerably. Read more...

Heath Ledger died in his rented apartment on the fourth floor of 421 Broome Street in New York’s SoHo neighborhood on January 22nd, 2008, aged 28. The Australian actor reportedly overdosed accidentally on prescription medication. Read more...

New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed suspension bridge that uses suspension cables and also diagonal cables from both towers to provide additional stiffening. Completed in 1883 to a design by John A. Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first bridge to use suspension cables made from steel wire. The bridge crosses the East River between Manhattan and Read more...

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...

MTA operates the following subway trains across the Manhattan Bridge: B Sixth Avenue Express on weekdays only, at all times except late nights. D Sixth Avenue Express at all times. N Broadway Express at all times except late nights. Q Second Avenue/Broadway Express/Brighton Local at all times. For B and D trains, the stops on either side of the Manhattan Read more...

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...

The Staten Island Ferry leaves Manhattan from the Whitehall Terminal (also called South Ferry) on Whitehall Street and South Street, near Battery Park, at the southern tip of Lower Manhattan. Read more...

WQXR-FM is a classical music radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, broadcasting to New York City and North Jersey at 105.9 MHz FM, and streaming online. The station is owned by the nonprofit New York Public Radio and broadcasts from their studios in Hudson Square, Manhattan via a transmitter atop the Empire State Building. WQXR also reaches central and Read more...

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...

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...

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...

New York University has the following varsity sports teams, which are nicknamed the NYU Violets: Women's Sports Men's Sports Basketball Baseball Cross country Basketball Fencing Cross country Golf Fencing Soccer Golf Softball Soccer Swimming & diving Swimming & diving Tennis Tennis Track and field Track and field Volleyball Volleyball Wrestling NYU also has 24 club sports, including badminton, rowing, triathlon, Read more...

Between portals, the north tube of the Holland Tunnel, carrying westbound traffic under the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan to Jersey City, is 8,558 feet (or 2,608 meters) long. The south tube, for eastbound traffic leaving New York, is shorter at 8,371 feet (or 2,551 meters) in length. The two tubes of the tunnel run broadly parallel to each other, Read more...

New York University’s ID card, the NYUCard, may be picked up on weekdays at the Washington Square NYUCard Center located in the ground floor lobby of 7 Washington Place (at the corner of Mercer Street). NYUCard applicants must bring government issued identification with a current photo, and an N number or NetID. New students may upload a photo via photoid.nyu.edu. Read more...

WNYU-FM is a student-run college radio station owned by New York University, broadcasting to the New York metropolitan area on FM at 89.1 MHz between 4 pm and 1 am weekdays and streaming online 24 hours a day. The station shares the 89.1 FM frequency with WFDU, Farleigh Dickinson University’s radio station, under a shared-time agreement with the FCC, which Read more...

Vinegar Hill in Brooklyn, New York City, is named after the Battle of Vinegar Hill, a major clash between the United Irishmen and British forces that took place in Ireland during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The neighborhood was named by John Jackson who was developing his land holdings on this stretch of the East River waterfront in the early Read more...