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The Williamsburg Houses, originally called the Ten Eyck Houses (pronounced TEN-IKE), is a public housing complex built and operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. It consists of 20 buildings on a site bordered by Scholes, Maujer, and Leonard Streets and Bushwick Avenue. [3]
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August 22 – John Wojtowicz, 27, and Sal Naturile, 18, hold several Chase Manhattan Bank employees hostage for 17 hours in Gravesend, Brooklyn, N.Y, an event later dramatized in the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.
They ended up having more than 50 outlets in Queens and Nassau County as well as Brooklyn but as their customer base left New York City for the suburbs, they ended up declaring bankruptcy in 1972. [3] By the time they closed for good on August 26, 1972, they had 54 outlets. [5]
During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - the last time people walked on the moon - U.S. astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected about 243 pounds (110.4 kg) of soil and rock samples ...
The Ocean Parkway station opened on April 22, 1917. [2] It was served only by a single-track shuttle that ran to Brighton Beach , which was the southern terminal for all trains on the Brighton Line. When the West Eighth Street station opened in 1919, all four tracks were extended west to serve that stop, which was a two-level station.
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