With an estimated population in 2022 of 8,335,897 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), the city is the
most densely populated major city in the United States. New York has more than double the population of
Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. New York is the geographical and demographic center of both the
Northeast megalopolis and the
New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. by both population and
urban area. With more than 20.1 million people in its
metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its
combined statistical area as of 2020, New York City is one of the world's most populous
megacities. The city and its metropolitan area are the premier gateway for legal
immigration to the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. In 2021, the city was home to nearly 3.1 million residents born outside the U.S., the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world. (Full article...)
Grand Central Terminal arose from a need to build a central station for three railroads in present-day Midtown Manhattan. In 1871, the magnate
Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt created Grand Central Depot for the New York Central & Hudson River,
New York and Harlem Railroad, and New Haven railroads. Due to rapid growth, the depot was reconstructed and renamed Grand Central Station by 1900. The current structure, designed by the firms
Reed and Stem and
Warren and Wetmore, was built after a 1902 crash between two steam trains had prompted a study of the feasibility of electric trains. The building's construction started in 1903 and it was opened on February 2, 1913.
The terminal continued to grow until after World War II, when train traffic started to decline. In the 1950s and 1970s, there were two separate proposals to demolish Grand Central, though both were unsuccessful. The terminal was given several official landmark designations during this period. Minor improvements occurred through the 1970s and 1980s, followed by an extensive rehabilitation in the mid- and late 1990s. (Full article...)
In 2002, Tina Fey, then
head writer of Saturday Night Live (SNL), pitched the idea for a series about a
cable news network to NBC, which rejected it. Two years later, Fey approached NBC with a similar idea: a behind-the-scenes look at The Girlie Show, a television show similar to SNL. NBC approved the series in May 2006 and production began shortly after. The episode was generally well-received and it finished third in its timeslot among all viewers and among adults aged 18 to 49. Critics praised the performances of
Jack McBrayer and
Jane Krakowski, who played
Kenneth Parcell and
Jenna Maroney, respectively.
The Clark Street station (originally the Brooklyn Heights station) is a
station on the
IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the
New York City Subway. It is located at Clark Street and Henry Street in
Brooklyn Heights,
Brooklyn. It is served by the
2 train at all times and the
3 train at all times except late nights. At approximately 80 feet (24 m) deep, the Clark Street station contains one
island platform and two tracks. Its only exit is via a set of three elevators, which lead from a passageway above the platform to the ground story of the
Hotel St. George. Despite being one of three New York City Subway stations that can only be accessed by elevators, the Clark Street station is not wheelchair-accessible with only stairs leading to the platforms.
The Clark Street station was built for the
Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) as part of the Clark Street Tunnel, which in turn was built as part of the
Dual Contracts. It opened on April 15, 1919, and initially had two elevators; a third elevator was installed in 1931. Two of the elevators were replaced in 1962, and the station received a major renovation in the 1980s. Due to repeated breakdowns of the elevators, further replacements took place in 2000 and between 2021 and 2022, requiring the full closure of the Clark Street station. (Full article...)
The Marquis was designed by
John C. Portman Jr., who designed the Marriott Marquis and included the theater to increase the size of the hotel. The theater's main entrance and box office are at 210 West 46th Street. The box office is at ground level, and there are escalators leading from the ground floor to the auditorium. Due to a lack of space, the
wings on each side of the
proscenium arch are smaller than mandated by city building codes. The theater also has no freight elevator, no dedicated restroom facilities, and small hallways.
A theater was proposed on the site in 1973 as part of a hotel (later the Marriott Marquis), the completion of which was delayed until 1985. The hotel had controversially replaced several existing theaters, and the design features of the new Marquis Theatre were highly criticized, even by the hotel's supporters. The theater opened in July 1986 with concerts by
Shirley Bassey, followed by the long-running Me and My Girl. The Marquis then hosted a series of short-lived productions from the 1990s through the 2010s. (Full article...)
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The northern (left) and western (right) facades of the Custom House in 2021
The Custom House is a seven-story steel-framed structure with a stone facade and elaborate interiors. The exterior is decorated with nautical motifs and sculptures by twelve artists. The second through fourth stories contain
colonnades with
Corinthian columns. The main entrance consists of a grand staircase flanked by Four Continents, a set of four statues by
Daniel Chester French. The second-story entrance vestibule leads to a transverse lobby, a
rotunda, and offices. The rotunda includes a
skylight and ceiling murals by
Reginald Marsh. The George Gustav Heye Center, a branch of the
National Museum of the American Indian, operates on the ground and second stories, while the upper stories contain U.S. government offices.
The building was proposed in 1889 as a replacement for the previous
New York Custom House at
55 Wall Street. Because of various disagreements, the Bowling Green Custom House was not approved until 1899; Gilbert was selected as architect following a competition. The building opened in 1907, and the murals in the rotunda were added in 1938 during a
Works Progress Administration project. The
United States Customs Service moved out of the building in 1974, and it remained vacant for over a decade until renovations in the late 1980s. The Custom House was renamed in 1990 to commemorate
Alexander Hamilton, one of the
Founding Fathers of the United States and its first
Secretary of the Treasury. The Heye Center opened in 1994. (Full article...)
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Platform level, with two specially designed
R160 Q trains. On the beam above the stairs is the word "Excelsior", the
New York state motto, meaning "ever upward".
The station was part of the original Second Avenue Subway as outlined in the
Program for Action in 1968. Construction on that project started in 1972, but stalled in 1975 due to lack of funding. In 2007, a separate measure authorized a first phase of the Second Avenue Line to be built between 65th and 105th Streets, with stations at 72nd, 86th, and 96th Streets. The station opened on January 1, 2017, as an intermediate station along Phase 1. Since opening, the presence of the Second Avenue Subway's three Phase 1 stations has improved real estate prices along the corridor. The 86th Street station was used by approximately 8.4 million passengers in 2019.
The station, along with the other Phase 1 stations along the Second Avenue Subway, contains features not found in most New York City Subway stations. It is fully compliant with the
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, containing two elevators for disabled access. Additionally, the station contains
air conditioning and is waterproofed, a feature only found in newer stations. The artwork at 86th Street is Subway Portraits, a selection of twelve face portraits by painter
Chuck Close. (Full article...)
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The Pershing Square Building in 1936, looking east from 41st Street
The Pershing Square Building, as well as 110 East 42nd Street, were built on the site of the Grand Union Hotel. Construction started in 1921 and was completed in 1923. Ownership of the Pershing Square Building passed to several companies; the latest such change occurred in 2010, when
SL Green Realty bought the building. It was made a
New York City designated landmark in 2016. (Full article...)
The first Prospect Hall was built in 1892 by local entrepreneur John Kolle. The original structure burned down in 1900 and was replaced by a new building, which opened in 1903. It was operated by the Kolle family through 1940, when John Kolle's son, William, sold the building to a Polish-American organization. Greek-American couple Michael and Alice Halkias bought the hall in 1981 and renovated it, gaining some local celebrity for their cheaply produced
television commercials. In 2020, it was sold to contractor Angelo Rigas, who announced plans to demolish and redevelop it, along with adjacent properties. Local activists organized to save the building, but the effort was unsuccessful and Grand Prospect Hall was demolished in February 2022.
Grand Prospect Hall was four stories tall and faced in buff-gray brick, with
pressed metal decoration that was originally colored to resemble
limestone. The front portion of the building was arranged around a large central staircase and was designed with a bar, a banquet hall, and various reception and parlor rooms. The rear of the building was arranged around the ballroom, which was overlooked by two balcony levels. The basement also had facilities, including a
bowling alley. The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. (Full article...)
In August 1954 Hall joined the
Western Development Division as the chief of Propulsion Development, and directed the development of engines for the
Atlas,
Titan and
Thor missiles. In 1957 he was the director of the Thor development program and supervised the
installation of Thor missiles in the UK. He also headed the Minuteman project, and then went to Europe, where, at the urging of the Pentagon, he started the French
Diamant missile project, a nuclear warhead-carrying IRBM which was central to President
De Gaulle's desire for France to have an independent nuclear force separate from the
US and
NATO. (Full article...)
The mansion was designed in an eclectic
French Renaissance style by
C. P. H. Gilbert and built by
foreman Harvey Murdock. The building largely retains its original design, except for a
tankhouse on the roof. Gilbert and Murdock constructed the bulk of the house with brick, which was then faced with limestone
ashlar. The northern
façade on 79th Street, containing the main entrance, is characterized by multiple windows in square recesses or semi-elliptical and fully
Gothic arches. The western façade on Fifth Avenue is symmetrical and dominated by a curved, projecting
pavilion. The interior of the mansion comprises 27 rooms on six floors, for a total floor-space of 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2). Critical reviews of the house's architecture over its history have been largely positive. (Full article...)
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Downey in 2014
Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor.
His films as a leading actor have grossed over $14 billion worldwide, making him one of the
highest-grossing actors of all time. Downey's career has been characterized by some early success, a period of drug-related problems and run-ins with the law, and a surge in popular and commercial success in the 2000s. In 2008, Downey was named by Time magazine as one of the
100 most influential people in the world. From 2013 to 2015, he was listed by Forbes as Hollywood's highest-paid actor.
Seen from the building's southeast corner, on Emmons Avenue
Lundy's Restaurant, also known as Lundy Brothers Restaurant, was an American
seafood restaurant in the
Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of
Brooklyn in
New York City, along the bay of the same name. Lundy's was founded in 1926 by Irving Lundy as a restaurant on the waterfront of Sheepshead Bay; five years later, the original building was condemned to make way for a redevelopment of the bay. The present building opened in 1934 or 1935, and closed in 1979. Another restaurant operated in the Lundy's building from 1996 to early 2007, after which the building was converted into a shopping center.
Lundy's, the last of the many seafood restaurants that once lined Sheepshead Bay, was well known for its cuisine and was among the largest restaurants in the United States upon its completion, with between 2,400 and 2,800 seats. At its peak, Lundy's served a million patrons annually.
Sesame Workshop, Inc. (SW), originally known as the Children's Television Workshop, Inc. (CTW), is an American
nonprofit organization that has been responsible for the production of several educational children's programs—including its first and best-known, Sesame Street—that have been televised internationally. Television producer
Joan Ganz Cooney and foundation executive
Lloyd Morrisett developed the idea to form an organization to produce Sesame Street, a television series which would help children, especially those from low-income families, prepare for school. They spent two years, from 1966 to 1968, researching, developing, and raising money for the new series. Cooney was named as the Workshop's first executive director, which was termed "one of the most important television developments of the decade."
Sesame Street premiered on
National Educational Television (NET) as a series run in the United States on November 10, 1969, and moved to NET's successor, the Public Broadcasting Service (
PBS), in late 1970. The Workshop was formally incorporated in 1970.
Gerald S. Lesser and
Edward L. Palmer were hired to perform research for the series; they were responsible for developing a system of planning, production, and evaluation, and the interaction between television producers and educators, later termed the "CTW model". The CTW applied this system to its other television series, including The Electric Company and 3-2-1 Contact. The early 1980s were a challenging period for the Workshop; difficulty finding audiences for their other productions and a series of bad investments harmed the organization until licensing agreements stabilized its revenues by 1985.
Following the success of Sesame Street, the CTW developed other activities, including unsuccessful ventures into adult programs, the publications of books and music, and international co-productions. In 1999, the CTW partnered with
MTV Networks to create an educational channel called
Noggin. The Workshop produced a variety of original series for Noggin, including The Upside Down Show, Sponk! and Out There. On June 5, 2000, the CTW changed its name to Sesame Workshop to better represent its activities beyond television. (Full article...)
The three primary bridges of the RFK Bridge complex are: (Full article...)
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"Hearts and Souls" is the fifth episode of the
sixth season and 115th overall of the
Americancrime dramaNYPD Blue. "Hearts and Souls" originally aired in the United States on
ABC on Tuesday November 24, 1998, at 9:30 pm Eastern time as a 90-minute special. The episode was directed by
Paris Barclay and written by
Steven Bochco,
David Milch,
Bill Clark and
Nicholas Wootton. It was the culmination of months of public speculation on the method of closure that would be employed to write
Jimmy Smits's critically acclaimed
Bobby Simone character out of the regular cast and clear the way for Smits' replacement,
Rick Schroder. "Hearts and Souls" was a critical and commercial success, achieving both high ratings and positive critical feedback and is now regarded as one of the greatest episodes in television history. It marked the second high-profile replacement of the partner for lead character Detective
Andy Sipowicz, played by
Dennis Franz.
At the
51st Primetime Emmy Awards, this episode won awards for Direction for
Paris Barclay and Guest Actress for
Debra Monk as well as a nominations in Writing for
Steven Bochco,
David Milch,
Bill Clark and
Nicholas Wootton. Barclay also won a
Directors Guild of America Award. The episode also won an
Eddie Award and a
Banff Rockie Award as well as a
Cinema Audio Society Award nomination. While the episode was given a 90-minute timeslot on ABC when first aired, it has been shown in syndication as a regular episode covering around half of that time (the rest of the hour block is where commercials were in the pre-streaming era), with the subplot involving Greg Medavoy's angry interactions with an annoying complainant being entirely removed and the material with Andy and Katie being reduced somewhat.
This was Smits' last regular appearance as Simone, although he returned for one scene in an episode during the
twelfth season. The episode highlights his rapid and mysterious physical demise, which has culminated in his need for a
heart transplant. Many emotional portrayals are included to represent the feelings of loved ones, friends and colleagues when someone that they care about is suddenly in dire medical need. In another storyline, the episode simultaneously highlights the stress that can be caused when alcoholism afflicts a family through a critically acclaimed guest appearance by
Debra Monk as the ex-wife of Sipowicz. (Full article...)
Selby's novel was
optioned by Aronofsky and producer Eric Watson. Selby had always intended to adapt the novel into a film, as he had written a script years prior to Aronofsky approaching him. Aronofsky was enthusiastic about the story and developed the script with Selby, despite initial struggles to obtain funding for the film's production. He and the cast speak of the film being about addictions in general, and not just drugs, and how one’s attempts to fulfill their dreams can fuel an addiction with a theme of loneliness and avoidance of reality in different ways.
Principal photography took place in
Brooklyn,
New York, from April to June 1999. During the
post-production process, the music was composed by
Clint Mansell while
Jay Rabinowitz worked for editing.
The film premiered at the
2000 Cannes Film Festival, selected as an out-of-competition entry, followed by the United States theatrical release on October 6, 2000, by Artisan Entertainment. The film was a
box office disappointment, grossing $7 million against a $4 million budget. However, it received a positive response from critics. The film's visual style, direction, screenplay, editing, musical score, cast, emotional depth, and themes were all praised, with Burstyn receiving
Academy Award and
Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actress. (Full article...)
A city law, the
New York City Human Rights Law, prohibits
discrimination on the basis of disability. Since 1990,
elevators have been built in newly constructed stations to comply with the ADA, with most grade-level stations requiring little modification to meet ADA standards. The MTA identified 100 "key stations", high-traffic and/or geographically important stations on the subway system, which have been or are being renovated to comply with the ADA. One of the key tenets of the 2018
Fast Forward Plan to rescue the subway system is to drastically increase the number of ADA-accessible subway stations, adding accessible facilities to 70 stations by 2024. In 2022, the MTA agreed in a settlement to make 95 percent of subway and Staten Island Railway stations accessible by 2055. (Full article...)
An early morning skirmish between a patrol of
Knowlton's Rangers and British light infantry pickets developed into a running fight as the British pursued the Americans back through woods towards Washington's position on Harlem Heights. The overconfident British light troops, having advanced too far from their lines without support, had exposed themselves to counter-attack. Seeing this, Washington ordered a flanking maneuver which failed to cut off the British force but, in the face of this attack and pressure from troops arriving from the Harlem Heights position, the outnumbered British retreated. (Full article...)
The New Lots Line is entirely elevated and consists of seven stations; most of the line has two tracks, except for
Junius Street station, which has three tracks. It runs mostly above Livonia Avenue in
Brownsville and East New York, except for a short section above East 98th Street in Brownsville. The line is served by the
3 train at all times except late nights, when the
4 train takes over service. During rush hours, occasional
2, 4, and
5 trains also serve the line.
The New Lots Line was built as a part of Contract 3 of the
Dual Contracts between New York City and the
Interborough Rapid Transit Company. The first portion of the line between
Utica Avenue and
Junius Street opened on November 22, 1920, with shuttle trains operating over this route. The line opened one more stop farther to the east to
Pennsylvania Avenue on December 24, 1920. Service was extended to
New Lots Avenue on October 16, 1922. In 1968, as part of the proposed
Program for Action, the IRT New Lots Line would have been extended past New Lots Avenue toward
Spring Creek, but the plan was never completed. Stations on the line were rebuilt several times throughout the years. (Full article...)
Zabdiel Judah (born October 27, 1977) is an American former
professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2019. He held multiple world championships in two
weight classes, including the
IBF and
WBOjunior welterweight titles between 2000 and 2004; the
undisputedwelterweight title in 2005, which included a reign as the
lineal champion from 2005 to 2006; and the IBF junior welterweight title again in 2011. Judah's career ended in 2019 when he was hospitalized after suffering a brain bleed in a stoppage loss to
Cletus Seldin. (Full article...)
The Bronx is divided by the
Bronx River into a hillier section in the
west, and a flatter
eastern section. East and west street names are divided by
Jerome Avenue. The West Bronx was annexed to New York City in 1874, and the areas east of the Bronx River in 1895. Bronx County was separated from New York County (modern-day Manhattan) in 1914. About a quarter of the Bronx's area is open space, including
Woodlawn Cemetery,
Van Cortlandt Park,
Pelham Bay Park, the
New York Botanical Garden, and the
Bronx Zoo in the borough's north and center. The
Thain Family Forest at the New York Botanical Garden is thousands of years old and is New York City's largest remaining tract of the original forest that once covered the city. These open spaces are primarily on land reserved in the late 19th century as urban development progressed north and east from Manhattan. (Full article...)
Named after the Dutch town of
Breukelen in the Netherlands, Brooklyn shares a border with the borough of
Queens. It has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan, across the
East River, and is connected to
Staten Island by way of the
Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. With a land area of 69.38 square miles (179.7 km2) and a water area of 27.48 square miles (71.2 km2), Kings County is the state of New York's fourth-smallest county by land area and third smallest by total area. (Full article...)
Staten Island (/ˈstætən/STAT-ən) is the southernmost
borough of
New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southern most point of
New York. The borough is separated from the adjacent state of
New Jersey by the
Arthur Kill and the
Kill Van Kull and from the rest of New York by
New York Bay. With a population of 495,747 in the
2020 Census, Staten Island is the least populated New York City borough but the third largest in land area at 58.5 sq mi (152 km2); it is also the least densely populated and most
suburban borough in the city.
A home to the
Lenape indigenous people, the island was settled by Dutch colonists in the 17th century. It was one of the 12 original counties of New York state. Staten Island was
consolidated with New York City in 1898. It was formerly known as the Borough of Richmond until 1975, when its name was changed to Borough of Staten Island. Staten Island has sometimes been called "the forgotten borough" by inhabitants who feel neglected by the
city government. It has also been referred to as the "borough of parks" due to its 12,300 acres of protected parkland and over 170 parks. (Full article...)
With a population of 2,405,464 as of the
2020 census, Queens is the second-most populous county in New York state, behind Kings County (Brooklyn), and is therefore also the second-most populous of the five New York City boroughs. If Queens were its own city, it would be the
fourth most-populous in the U.S. after
New York City itself,
Los Angeles, and
Chicago. Queens is the fourth-most densely populated borough in New York City and the fourth-most densely populated
U.S. county. About 47% of its residents are
foreign-born. Queens is the most
linguistically and
ethnically diverse place on Earth. (Full article...)
Image 20The Sunday magazine of the New York World appealed to immigrants with this April 29, 1906 cover page celebrating their arrival at Ellis Island. (from History of New York City (1898–1945))
Image 25Anderson Avenue garbage strike. A common scene throughout New York City in 1968 during a sanitation workers strike (from History of New York City (1946–1977))
... that Lucy Feagin founded the
Feagin School of Dramatic Art in New York City, where talent scouts for radio, screen, and stage were always present to watch her senior students' plays?
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