7 September 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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The Bronx is a
borough of New York City , coextensive with Bronx County, in the
U.S. state of
New York . It is south of
Westchester County ; north and east of the New York City borough of
Manhattan , across the
Harlem River ; and north of the New York City borough of
Queens , across the
East River . The Bronx has a land area of 42 square miles (109 km²) and a population of 1,472,654 in the 2020 census. If each borough were ranked as a city, the Bronx would rank as the
ninth-most-populous in the U.S. Of the five boroughs, it has the fourth-largest area, fourth-highest population, and third-highest
population density . It is the only borough of New York City not primarily on an island. With a population that is 54.8% Hispanic as of 2020, it is the
only majority-Hispanic county in the
Northeastern United States and the
fourth-most-populous nationwide .
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31 August 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Cornell University is a
private Ivy League land-grant research university based in
Ithaca, New York . The university was founded in 1865 by
Ezra Cornell and
Andrew Dickson White . Since its founding, Cornell has been a
co-educational , non-
sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race. The student body for the fall 2022 semester consisted of more than 15,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students from all 50 American states and 130 countries.
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8 July 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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The Greenwich Savings Bank Building, also known as the
Haier Building and
1356 Broadway , is an office building at 1352–1362
Broadway in the
Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of
New York City . Constructed as the headquarters of the
Greenwich Savings Bank from 1922 to 1924, it occupies a trapezoidal parcel bounded by 36th Street to the south,
Sixth Avenue to the east, and Broadway to the west. The Greenwich Savings Bank Building was designed in the
Classical Revival style by
York and Sawyer .
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26 June 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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The Stonewall Inn, often shortened to Stonewall, is a
gay bar and recreational
tavern in the
Greenwich Village neighborhood of
Lower Manhattan ,
New York City , and the site of the
Stonewall riots of 1969, which is widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the
gay liberation movement and the modern fight for
LGBT rights in the United States .
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15 May 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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Industry City (also Bush Terminal) is a historic
intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex on the
Upper New York Bay waterfront in the
Sunset Park neighborhood of
Brooklyn ,
New York City . The northern portion, commonly called “Industry City” on its own, hosts commercial light manufacturing tenants across 6,000,000 square feet (560,000 m²) of space between 32nd and 41st Streets, and is operated by a private consortium. The southern portion, known as “Bush Terminal”, is located between 40th and 51st Streets and is operated by the
New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) as a garment manufacturing complex.
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17 April 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Living, Working, Building , Museums, Exhibitions , New York City
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The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, located at 97 and 103
Orchard Street in the
Lower East Side neighborhood of
Manhattan ,
New York City , is a
National Historic Site . The museum’s two historical
tenement buildings were home to an estimated 15,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 2011. The museum, which includes a visitors’ center, promotes tolerance and historical perspective on the
immigrant experience .
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2 March 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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NoMad (“
No rth of
Mad ison Square Park”), also known as
Madison Square North , is a neighborhood centered on the
Madison Square North Historic District in the borough of
Manhattan in
New York City . The name NoMad, which has been in use since 1999, is derived from the area’s location north of
Madison Square Park . The neighborhood is bordered by
East 25th Street to the south,
East 29th or
East 30th Street to the north,
Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) to the west and
Madison or
Lexington Avenue to the east. The surrounding neighborhoods are
Chelsea to the west,
Midtown South to the northwest,
Murray Hill to the northeast,
Rose Hill to the east, and the
Flatiron District to the south.
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18 February 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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The Thirteen Colonies, also known as the Thirteen British Colonies, the Thirteen American Colonies, or later as the
United Colonies , were a group of
British colonies on the Atlantic coast of
North America . Founded in the 17th and 18th centuries, they began fighting the
American Revolutionary War in April 1775 and formed the
United States of America by
declaring full independence in July 1776. Just prior to declaring independence, the Thirteen Colonies in their traditional groupings were: New England (
New Hampshire ;
Massachusetts ;
Rhode Island ;
Connecticut ); Middle (
New York ;
New Jersey ;
Pennsylvania ;
Delaware ); Southern (
Maryland ;
Virginia ;
North Carolina ;
South Carolina ; and
Georgia ). The Thirteen Colonies came to have very similar political, constitutional, and legal systems, dominated by
Protestant English-speakers. The first of these colonies was
Virginia Colony in 1607, a
Southern colony . While all these colonies needed to become economically viable, the founding of the
New England colonies , as well as the colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania, were substantially motivated by their founders’ concerns related to the practice of religion. The other colonies were founded for business and economic expansion. The
Middle Colonies were established on an earlier Dutch colony,
New Netherland . All the Thirteen Colonies were part of
Britain’s possessions in the New World , which also included territory in
Canada ,
Florida , and the
Caribbean .
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1 February 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
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The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre (10 ha)
public park located at the southern tip of
Manhattan Island in
New York City facing
New York Harbor . It is bounded by Battery Place on the north,
State Street on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and the
Hudson River to the west. The park contains attractions such as an early 19th-century fort named
Castle Clinton ; multiple monuments; and the
SeaGlass Carousel . The surrounding area, known as
South Ferry , contains multiple ferry terminals, including the
Staten Island Ferry ‘s
Whitehall Terminal ; a boat launch to the
Statue of Liberty National Monument (which includes
Ellis Island and
Liberty Island ); and a boat launch to
Governors Island .
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