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A $23.5-million investment to develop Rhode Island's first food hall in the station was begun in 2022, [13] by a local developer who purchased the building from The Rhode Island Foundation. [14] The 18,000-square-foot food hall will be named Track 15 , a reference to the fact that the historic Union Station had 14 tracks. [ 14 ]
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Providence station is a railroad station in Providence, Rhode Island, served by Amtrak and MBTA Commuter Rail. The station has four tracks and two island platforms for passenger service, with a fifth track passing through for Providence and Worcester Railroad freight trains. It is now the 11th busiest Amtrak station in the country, and the ...
An engraving depicting Exchange Place in 1886. Kennedy Plaza has seen numerous transformations over the 19th and 20th centuries. [3] According to architectural historian William McKenzie Woodword, the site is Providence's "most constantly reworked space, and fully interpreting its history would fill a book that could be a landmark in understanding American urbanism."
In 1902, 800 workers went on strike over an increase in the pace of work and a reduction in their wages linked with the implementation by the 58-hour work week in Rhode Island. [5] Employees returned to work after one week. [6] In 1907, there was a strike among the 500 workers in the carding room.
The Strand was popular for a time as a vaudevillian theatre. In 1929, the theatre changed management and opened a year later as the Paramount Theatre. To capitalize on the emerging "talking pictures" market, the nearly 2,100-seat auditorium was converted into a movie cinema, making it one of eight in downtown Providence. Four years later, the ...
Across the Atlantic, 25-year-old Melissa Howard's day also starts at 5 a.m. Twice a week she makes her way from home in rural Cambridgeshire, England, to the office, taking two trains to get into ...
WPVD (1290 AM) is a public radio station in Providence, Rhode Island.It is owned by The Public's Radio.The station is a simulcast of WNPN (89.3 FM).. WPVD transmits with 400 watts by day, 16 watts by night, using a one-tower omnidirectional antenna.