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Staten Island is an island, surrounded by water on all sides. One of the five boroughs of New York City, Staten Island is connected by road to Brooklyn via the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and to the state of New Jersey by three road bridges: the Outerbridge Crossing, Goethals Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge. The Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Railroad Bridge single track Read more...

WFUV radio is located in the basement of Keating Hall on the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University in the Bronx, New York City. The station moved to its present location in 2005, having previously been based on the third floor of Keating Hall since first signing on in 1947. Owned by Fordham University, WFUV is a listener-supported NPR affiliate Read more...

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...

A Park Pass is not needed for Glen Island Park, but proof of Westchester County residency is required for admission. This can be established with a Westchester County park pass or a valid New York State driver’s license with a Westchester county address. Residents may each bring up to four adult guests and five children. Pass holders receive discounted admission Read more...

Senator Cory Booker’s childhood home was on Norma Road in Harrington Park, New Jersey, until 1977 when he moved with his family to a new home on Parkhill Road in Harrington Park. Read more...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg grew up in the village of Dobbs Ferry, New York, some 18 miles (or 29 kilometers) north of New York City. The Zuckerberg family lived in a house on Russell Place, just off Northfield Avenue, from where Mark’s father, Doctor Edward Zuckerberg, operated an adjoining dental clinic. Mark Zuckerberg attended Ardsley High School in nearby Ardsley Read more...

American rapper DMX died, aged 50, on April 9th, 2021, at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, following a heart attack. The rap artist and actor, whose real name was Earl Simmons and also went by the name Dark Man X, had been on life support at the hospital after suffering a heart attack at his White Plains Read more...

George Herman “Babe” Ruth is buried in Section 25 of the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York. The former professional baseball player for the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees died aged 53 in August 1948. He was interred at the cemetery following a funeral mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan. An epitaph by Cardinal Spellman Read more...

You can walk across the Bear Mountain Bridge and there are pedestrian footpaths on both sides of the bridge. The Bear Mountain Bridge carries the Appalachian Trail over the Hudson River and there are interpretive panels at various points on the bridge. There is roadside parking available at the eastern end of the bridge on Route 9D although it can Read more...

The huge boulder balanced on five smaller rocks near the town of North Salem, New York is widely thought to have been carried to the area on moving glacial ice during the last ice age and deposited, by chance, on the supporting stones as the ice retreated. Such a geological feature is called a glacial erratic and widely observed around Read more...

The Liberty Bell is on display at the Liberty Bell Center just across from Independence Hall in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Originally placed in the steeple of the Pennsylvania State House (now renamed Independence Hall) in 1753, the bell has traveled considerable distances in its lifetime, including trips to various exhibitions end events across the US between Read more...

LA Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore near Philadelphia, where he joined the varsity basketball team as a freshman, earning a total of 2,883 points between 1992 and 1996. He spent much of his childhood in Italy, where his father, former basketball player Joe Bryant, played professional basketball after retiring from the NBA, before Read more...

The Philadelphia Flyers NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at the Wells Fargo Center (formerly Wachovia Center) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Flyers moved to the newly-built arena in 1996, having previously played at the Spectrum, a nearby arena which has since been demolished. The arena is also home to the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and the Philadelphia Read more...

Ardmore Music Hall is located at 23 East Lancaster Avenue in Ardmore, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is situated close to Ardmore station on the Philadelphia Main Line. The venue was previously known as 23 East Cabaret and later, Brownies 23 East, and over the years has hosted live performances by groups such as The Dave Matthews Band and Read more...

The NPR member radio station in Southampton, NY, is WLIW-FM which broadcasts to eastern Long Island and southern Connecticut on FM and HD Radio at 88.3 MHz, and also streams online. Formerly called WPPB-FM, the station was acquired in 2020 by the the WNET Group, parent company of New York’s THIRTEEN and WLIW21 public television broadcasters and operator of New Read more...

American television host and comedian Jimmy Fallon spent most of his childhood in Saugerties, New York, where he lived with his parents and older sister, Gloria, in a house on Overbaugh Street. Fallon’s family moved to Saugerties shortly after his birth in Brooklyn, New York, and he attended St Mary of the Snow Catholic elementary school and later, Saugerties High Read more...