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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27 January 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Port Jefferson (informally known as “Port Jeff”) is an incorporated
village in the
town of
Brookhaven in
Suffolk County, New York , on the
North Shore of
Long Island . Officially known as the Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson, the population was 7,962 as of the
2020 United States census .
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11 January 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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U Thant Island (officially Belmont Island) is a small
artificial island or
islet in the
borough of
Manhattan in
New York City . The 100-by-200-foot (30 by 60 m) island, created during the construction of the
Steinway Tunnel directly underneath, is the smallest island in Manhattan.
Mean sea level in the East River is sometimes measured in reference to the “Belmont Island Datum”, 2.265 feet (0.69 m) below that of
Sandy Hook .
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7 January 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City , Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings in the
Lincoln Square neighborhood on the
Upper West Side of
Manhattan . It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually. It houses internationally renowned performing arts organizations including the
New York Philharmonic , the
Metropolitan Opera , the
New York City Ballet , and the
Juilliard School . A consortium of civic leaders and others, led by and under the initiative of
philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III , built Lincoln Center as part of the “Lincoln Square Renewal Project” during
Robert Moses ‘s program of New York’s
urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. Respected architects were contracted to design the major buildings on the site.
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29 December 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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Lower Manhattan (also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York) is the southernmost part of
Manhattan , the central
borough for business, culture, and
government in
New York City , which is the most populated city in the United States with over 8.8 million residents as of the
2020 census . Lower Manhattan is defined most commonly as the area delineated on the north by
14th Street , on the west by the
Hudson River , on the east by the
East River , and on the south by
New York Harbor . The Lower Manhattan business district, known as the
Financial District (FiDi), forms the main core of the area below
Chambers Street . It is a leading global center for commerce, housing
Wall Street , the
New York Stock Exchange , and the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York .
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