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2 days ago · New York City, city and port located at the mouth of the Hudson River, southeastern New York state, considered the most influential American metropolis and the country’s financial and cultural center. New York City comprises five boroughs—Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island.
- Brooklyn
Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City,...
- Harlem
Harlem, district of New York City, occupying a large part of...
- Hudson River
Navigational improvements began in 1797, and in 1892 the...
- New Jersey
New Jersey, constituent state of the U.S. One of the...
- Bronx
Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City,...
- Education
In the late 1990s New York administered the nation’s largest...
- The Arts
Completed in the 1960s, the Lincoln Center for the...
- Planning The Modern Metropolis
New York City - Urban Planning, Density, Diversity: Before...
- Growth of The Metropolis
New York City - Urban Expansion, Diversity, Culture: Despite...
- The Boroughs
New York City - Boroughs, Diversity, Culture: The...
- Brooklyn
5 days ago · New York City - Urban Expansion, Diversity, Culture: Despite the loss of the national government, New York’s population skyrocketed in 1781–1800, and it became America’s largest city. Once again trade grew rapidly, and not even the War of 1812 hindered development; an auction system for surplus British merchandise dumped in New York solidified the city’s economic position after 1816 ...
- George Lankevich
5 days ago · The existence of such a situation in predominantly Democratic New York City fueled antagonism between the city and Republican-dominated upstate New York. Much of Tammany Hall’s power was based on its social services to the waves of immigrants who had inundated New York City until changes in immigration laws slowed the tide during the 1920s.
5 days ago · At the time, LGBTQ+ social life in New York City was an open secret, but a risky and repressed one nonetheless. From the 1950s until 1973, the U.S. psychiatric establishment classified ...
5 days ago · The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg (1930s) Two books by Schulberg in a row–and we could have easily added a third; On The Waterfront . The Disenchanted is a lesser-known novel, which is no less ...
3 days ago · This photograph by Lewis Hine was taken in a New York City tenement in 1910. Hine was a documentary photographer who frequently turned his lens to the plight of immigrants, workers, and the poor. This family group, perhaps among the approximately two and a half million Italians who arrived in New York in the years 1890-1910, lives in squalid ...
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4 days ago · The summer season in New York City is informally marked each year by the hoisting of Pride flags on The People's Beach, a queer haven tucked away on the far eastern corner of the city's Jacob Riis ...
