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  2. Strand Bookstore - Wikipedia

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    Shelves on 1st floor. The Strand is a family-owned business with more than 230 employees. [5] Many notable New York City artists have worked at the store, including rock musicians of the 1970s: Patti Smith – who claimed not to have liked the experience because it "wasn't very friendly" [6] – and Tom Verlaine, [7] who was fond of the discount book carts sitting outside the store. [8]

  3. Shweshwe - Wikipedia

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    New York: Peter Lang. pp. 211– 218. ISBN 978-0-8204-6118-2. Pheto-Moeti, Mabokang Baatshwana (2005). An Assessment of Seshoeshoe Dress as a Cultural Identity for Basotho Women of Lesotho (M.Sc. thesis). University of the Free State. Archived from the original on 22 January 2014. Maphangwa, Shonisani (2010).

  4. Hamilton Heights, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, an estimated 24% of Community District 9 residents lived in poverty, compared to 14% in all of Manhattan and 20% in all of New York City. One in twelve residents (8%) were unemployed, compared to 7% in Manhattan and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 51% in ...

  5. Morris Heights, Bronx - Wikipedia

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    The entirety of Community District 5, which comprises Morris Heights, University Heights, and Fordham, had 136,151 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 79.9 years. [15]: 2, 20 This is lower than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. [16]: 53 (PDF p.

  6. Spring Street (Manhattan) - Wikipedia

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    The Germania Bank Building The James Brown House; to the right is the Urban Glass House Spring Street salt shed at west end of street. The Germania Bank Building, on the northwest corner of Spring Street and the Bowery (190 Bowery), a granite and limestone 1899 Renaissance Revival-style structure designed by Robert Maynicke, currently the 75-room residence, studio and gallery of commercial ...

  7. Beekman Place - Wikipedia

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    Beekman Place is a small street located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood on the East Side of Manhattan, New York City.Running from north to south for two blocks, the street is situated between the eastern end of 51st Street and Mitchell Place, where it ends at a retaining wall above 49th Street, overlooking the glass apartment towers at 860 and 870 United Nations Plaza, just north of the ...

  8. Thompson Street (Manhattan) - Wikipedia

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    Thompson Street is a street in the Lower Manhattan neighborhoods of Greenwich Village and SoHo in New York City, which runs north–south, from Washington Square Park at Washington Square South (West Fourth Street) to the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) below Grand Street, where the street turns right to Sixth Avenue; it thus does not connect with Canal Street just a half block south of ...

  9. South Street (Manhattan) - Wikipedia

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    In 1835, the Great Fire of New York destroyed 76 of the buildings on the street, [1] but that hardly kept back the expansion of commerce along the shoreline. On one day in 1836, there were 921 vessels on the East River waiting to load or unload onto South Street, while an additional 320 waited on the Hudson.