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2 days ago · 17th century. 1646 – Village of "Breuckelen" on the western end of Long Island authorized by the colonizing Dutch West India Company for their North American colony of New Netherland. Named after the town of Breukelen in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands, "the old country". 1652 – The Wyckoff House is estimated to have been built ...
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.
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4 days ago · Manhattan (c. 1900), detail of a map of New York City from the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. (more) Manhattan, borough of New York City, coextensive with New York county, in southeastern New York state, U.S. The borough, mainly on Manhattan Island, spills over into the Marble Hill section on the mainland and includes a number of ...
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1 day ago · The Bronx is the only New York City borough not primarily located on an island. The Bronx has a land area of 42 square miles (109 km 2) and a population of 1,472,654 in the 2020 census. [1] If each borough were ranked as a city, the Bronx would rank as the ninth-most-populous in the U.S.
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5 days ago · This guide provides an overview of the Library's collection of New York City newspapers and facilitates access to the most frequently requested titles. We've used the list from the chart, "And Then There Were Three" which graphs the consolidation of daily newspapers in the 20th century, about two dozen titles.
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4 days ago · 11224. Area code. 718, 347, 929, and 917. Coney Island is a peninsular neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach to its east, Lower New York Bay to the south and west, and Gravesend to the north and includes the subsection of Sea Gate ...
