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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...

The speed limit on the Staten Island Expressway, also known as Interstate 278, is 50 miles per hour in most places. However, there are areas where the posted speed limit may be lower, such as in construction zones or at exits and on-ramps. The Staten Island Expressway runs across Staten Island, New York City, between Goethals Bridge and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge Read more...

The highest natural point of land in Manhattan is in Bennett Park at 265.05 feet (or 81 meters) above sea level. Bennett Park is located at Pinehurst Avenue and West 183rd Street in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Washington Heights in upper Manhattan. A stone plaque on an outcropping of Manhattan schist rock on the west side of the park Read more...

American businesswoman, writer, and media personality Martha Stewart’s childhood home is on Elm Place in Nutley, New Jersey. Born Martha Helen Kostyra in 1941, she moved with her family from Jersey City to Nutley when she was three years old and attended Yantacaw School before graduating from Nutley High School in 1959. Martha Stewart was inducted into the Nutley Hall Read more...

On the evening of October 30th, 2002, Jason Mizell, better known as Jam Master Jay of the hip hop group Run-DMC, was shot and killed, aged 37, at his recording studio in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. Ronald Washington was identified by prosecutors in April 2007 as an accomplice in the murder, although it was alleged that he was accompanied Read more...

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...

Throgs Neck in the Bronx, New York City, is named after English immigrant John Throckmorton, whose surname is also variously spelled as Throgmorton and Throggmorton. He settled on the peninsula for a period from 1642 when it was part of New Amsterdam and under the control of Dutch colonialists. Also known as Throggs Neck, road signage favors spelling with one 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...

John F Kennedy International Airport was officially called New York International Airport-Anderson Field, after it opened in 1948, but was more commonly known as Idlewild Airport. The airport in Queens, New York, was developed on land once occupied by the Idlewild Beach Golf Course, leading to it being referred to as Idlewild, and even used IDL as the FAA and Read more...

The Aer Lingus Lounge at New York’s JFK Airport is located after security in Terminal 5 departures, across from Gate 26. The lounge overlooks the airside operations towards the iconic TWA Hotel, and offers self-serve food and beverages, free wi-fi, printers and shower facilities. The Aer Lingus lounge is open from 12:45 until the last Aer Lingus departure for the Read more...

Hylan Boulevard in the borough of Staten Island is the longest street in New York City, at around 14 miles (or 23 kilometers) long. The boulevard runs northeast-southwest from Rosebank in northeastern Staten Island, along the entire East Shore, to the Tottenville neighborhood on the South Shore. Hyland Boulevard was named in 1923 in honor of John Francis Hylan, mayor Read more...

The New York Islanders NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, some 20 miles (or 32 kilometers) east of Manhattan. Situated next to the Belmont Park horse racing facility, the newly-built arena opened in November 2021 and the Islanders played their inaugural home game there against the Calgary Flames. Previously, they played 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...

The Ellen E Ward Memorial Clock Tower in the village of Roslyn, New York, was built in 1895. It was commissioned as a memorial to prominent Roslyn resident Ellen Ward by her children after her death in 1893. The clock tower was designed by the New York firm Lamb & Rich and features four clock faces and a Seth Thomas 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...

Peekskill, New York, is derived from a nearby creek named after Jan Peeck, a 17th-century Dutch settler in New Amsterdam. The name is derived from a combination of Peeck’s surname and kil, a Dutch word for a water channel or creek. In the mid-1600s, Peeck was known to travel by boat up the Hudson River and established a trading post Read more...